Hall Bathroom Update #diy #theswalehouse

There is a good reason that there were no pictures of the upstairs hall bathroom in the MLS listing - it is terribly small (and thus hard to get a good picture of) and it was painted a lovely baby poop brown.  Who chooses colors like that and thinks "hmm...perfect color for a bathroom!"!?!?!?!

View from in the tub

 Yeah, not pretty.  One goal this summer was the get rid of the brown!  (I sense a theme here, last summer it was bye bye brown kitchen cabinets....)  Warm white here we come!  In the process of course, I discovered that not a lot of time and care was put into flipping this bathroom in 2012 when it was done with the rest of the house.  Example #1: the extra large and yellow quarter round trim that doesn't go the full way around the bathroom, which made me paint the trim.

I picked a warm white: Behr Twinkling Lights as this is a northern facing room that doesn't get a ton of direct sunlight.  Even with Paint + Primer combined it took 3 coats to get a good coverage. 

First coat done!

Compared to the earlier photo, SO MUCH BRIGHTER AND BETTER!!!  

Example #2: the extra large hole behind the light fixture that left it hanging off the wall by a quarter inch.  Not safe!  To fix the light, I ended up just screwing in a piece of scrap wood behind the base of the hole so that the bar of the fixture would have something to rest on, thus holding it steady and flush against the wall.  (Don't forget to turn off the power when working near any wires! And then don't forget to turn the power back on when you're all done :-) 

That little piece of wood you see was all it needed!

Two screw holes I can patch no problem.

Here it is brighter and all put back together:

Someday we'd love to redo the floor as some tiles are missing, and get rid of the brown tiles in the tub, but that will be another summer project down the road.