As I’ve been busy engaged on the studio, I’ve had the possibility to actually take my time in making selections in regards to the hallway toilet. That is nonetheless the primary, most used toilet in our home. It’s the one which company use, and the one which I take advantage of probably the most through the day. However proper now, it seems like a multitude.
I lastly did get a plumber right here to complete putting in all the new bathtub/bathe fixtures. In order that half is completed now. However different issues look “in progress” though I don’t plan to work on this toilet till I’ve fully completed the studio. I’ve had this wallpaper pattern taped to the wall for most likely two months now.
And whereas the primary countertop has been switched out from wooden to quartz because the starting of August, the opposite little countertop on the nook countertop simply inside the lavatory to the suitable remains to be wooden. I’ve the quartz countertop for that space, however determining how one can get it into place has been a problem.
So focusing my effort and time on the studio has given me loads of time to strive to determine precisely what I wish to do with this toilet once I begin engaged on it. And I believe I lastly have a plan in place.
First, I’m 100% certain that I’m going to make use of this wallpaper within the room. It’s simply too good for my home and for my private style to go it up. BUT…I’m going to take away all the accent tile across the room, end up the highest of the wainscoting in a quite simple and understated method in order that it’s not attempting to be the star of the present, after which I’ll convey the wallpaper all the way down to the wainscoting.
I can’t keep in mind if I discussed it earlier than, however I’m additionally going to do away with the present mirror. I don’t have a brand new photograph that reveals the mirror very well, however you may see it on this older photograph. I principally trimmed out a plain frameless mirror in the identical method I trim out all of our home windows and doorways, after which I put in the sconces on the body.
I like that mirror, and it has served us effectively for the previous 9 years, however I’m prepared for one thing extra ornamental. And smaller. I need it to be a smaller mirror with a fairly white body sitting towards that darkish wallpaper. And I need wallpaper seen between the mirror body and the sconces.
However I’m fairly certain I’ve already shared all of that with you in earlier posts. What I didn’t share is my choice in regards to the nook cupboard and cabinets. I’ve just about determined that the higher a part of the nook cupboard (the half with the open cabinets) wants to return out fully.
That can clear up a number of of issues, however it’s going to additionally create a few issues.
Let’s speak in regards to the issues it’s going to clear up. First, it’s going to permit me to get that wooden countertop out of there and swap it for the brand new quartz countertop. (That’s actually the primary motive that acquired me fascinated by the potential of taking the higher cupboard out fully and leaving it out.) Second, eradicating the higher cupboard fully will do away with the tile on the again that I put in vertically. I appreciated that design choice at first, however have come to actually dislike it. Plus, if I’m eliminating the accent tile in the remainder of the room, conserving the tile in the back of these cabinets will make no sense in any respect.
However the third motive might be my favourite unintended profit. I’d then have the ability to carry the wallpaper round into that little nook, which is able to stability out the look of the wallpaper within the room. With out that, I really feel like that darkish wallpaper primarily on two partitions of the room would make it really feel unbalanced.
What drawback would it not create? Nicely, the crown molding must be fully redone on this space because it wraps across the entrance of the cupboard, and I’d must to wrap round to the again wall of the nook (i.e., the wall the place the vertical tile is now). And as soon as that’s eliminated, that signifies that the ceiling boards on this space, which finish on the entrance of the cupboards slightly below the crown molding, must be eliminated and changed with boards that go all the best way to the again wall of the nook.
So the plans are beginning to transcend only a fast little makeover with some new wallpaper, a brand new mirror, and new self-importance paint colour, a brand new bathe curtain, and a few new plumbing fixtures.
However I don’t actually see any method round it. With that cupboard there, I can’t get that countertop out. All of it begins with the countertop. And there’s merely no method I’m going to have one quartz countertop and one wooden countertop. That’s not even an choice.
So it seems like the brand new countertop will set off an entire domino impact on this little toilet. However that’s okay. It’ll be enjoyable, and provides me one thing to stay up for as soon as the studio is completed. If you happen to give a DIYer a brand new countertop… (Maybe I ought to write a kids’s guide. 😀 )
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
