Tiny Room, Big Accomplishment. (Not Really. But at Least it's a Start!)

Hello friends, readers, and people who ended up here quite by accident! Now that my new hubby and I are done saying our "I do"s and honeymooning in Hawaii, we are back in New York and getting back down to business! Tonight we finished making one whole room in our apartment livable.  It was, of course, the smallest room... the bathroom. It might not look like much, but it was a nice little accomplishment for two people who have been living in utter chaos for six weeks. For starters, our bath towels will no longer end up on the floor, and we finally have a place to hang our toilet paper roll! And best of all, we got rid of the ribbed wallpaper on the ceiling. That's right, I said ceiling!





My textured wallpapered bathroom ceiling. The picture doesn't do it justice!

Ok so maybe the wallpaper wasn't technically ribbed. But close enough. It definitely had a texture to it, and it definitely reminded me of a condom ad. Needless to say, it had to go. So we started our project by saying goodbye to our bumpy brown wall/ceiling paper and never looked back. The results, at first, were not pretty. But after our painter was done tearing down the paper, and repairing the old plaster walls underneath (this tiny room was a tad expensive in that regard), he painted the walls with Restoration Hardware's Gravel in a low gloss finish. He also painted the ceiling a glossy white. The result? A greatly improved bathroom without actually doing any true renovations! Here are a few before and after shots...

 


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 We used some wedding gift cards to fill the room with Lacoste towels and floor mats from the Crocod'il Collection in Nile and True Navy. (Based on the name of the collection, I have only now just realized that my friends are not, in fact, 'gators!) We added a simple white window shade from Bed Bath and Beyond and a few towel bars and a toilet paper holder from Home Depot's Palladium collection. (Oh what fun we had, both crammed in that tiny room all night, anchoring screws and leveling towel bars!) And did you notice the big lily pads from Crate and Barrel? My husband loves our shower, which he calls "the Fishbowl." Always one step ahead of him, I strategically decorated with three large faux-lily pads, which conveniently double as Fishbowl-Blockers!

This bathroom is certainly nothing special, and I hope to do much more with it (i.e. rip it all out and start from scratch) down the road. But for now, we have a cozy little bathroom filled with lots of Crocod'illy friends and the occasional nice bright color accent to liven things up!