Thursday, February 9, 2012

Before and After

I wasn't cut out for DIY--let me just be honest about that. The sisters? DIY PROS y'all. I'm more of a "wait around and hope fairies come and fix it or that Carter Oosterhouse will knock on my door". Sadly, none of those have happened. Yet.

So, I finally had to take matters into my unable hands.

Here's the before of our guest bathroom.
Ick. Ick. ICK. Hated the color, the 1990s oak, the tacky mural, just, bleh.
I added some art and candles to ya know, make it less vomity, but, I still just lived with it.
Why you ask? Because I am lazy and because if I'm going to put the effort in, I want it to be PERFECT. And I had no idea what I wanted.

Until I found this...Here was my inspiration--from House of Turquoise, of course!
I was not only obsessed with the color, but, I loved how there were coordinating reds, which I already had and my house is basically a mish mash of blues, reds and greens.

So, a painting I went. With the help of one of my besties.

Here's the bathroom half way finished:
And here's the completed look!!
I'm never painting cabinets again--mark my words.
I'm obsessed.




I love it so much! It came out perfect and I'm so glad it's finally done!

14 comments:

Jessica said...

I love this color and I think you did a great job!

That Pink Girl said...

Love the color - it looks great!

Newlyweds on a Budget said...

wow what a difference! It looks great too, why do you not want to paint cabinets again? was it hard?

Classy Fab Sarah said...

It looks so great!! I'm doing my bathroom right now. Blah, ugh. No fun.

The Pink Growl said...

LOVE it! I'm in the process of re-doing our master bathroom, and I've been thinking about a robin's egg blue with white wainscoting on the bottom. I've been obsessed over Pinterest trying to find ideas.

Melissa @ I Pick Pretty said...

Such a big difference - it looks terrific! What a change. And as one who also subscribes to the "if I wait long enough, fairies will fix it" school of home decoration, I appreciate the effort that went into this :-).

Lindsey said...

LOVE IT! Such a huge difference!!!!!

Carolyn said...

SO CUTE!!! I love that blue!! :)

Katie said...

girl, LOVE the afters!

Becky said...

Love it. You are so darned *handy* and you didn't even know it. Carter Oosterhouse, eat your heart out!!! :)

REBrown said...

I love the color!

..:danielle:.. said...

beautiful!!

Anonymous said...

Oh wow, I adore that color!

Kandi said...

Amazing transformation! I think that color is similar to the color I have on my accent wall in my bedroom. LOVE!