Bathroom Updates - I Know You're Dying to Know

This gold stuff has become the bane of our existence. Not so easy to get rid of as you might think!

We finally got around to working on the girls bathroom. We got it all prepped the Saturday night of spring break and were ready to paint when we opened up the can of paint. It was WAY too light. My feeling is that if we were going to paint the girls' bathroom girly colors, I wanted it to show and the color we brought home from Home Depot was almost white. So we put off painting until I could get more tint added on Monday.

This is our new shower faucet/head/shelf in brushed nickel. MUCH better than the gold, but after cutting a huge hole in the closet wall, buying the faucet/shower combo (NOT cheap anyway) and add to that the cost of having a plumber come cut into pipes and Sauter the new plumbing that went with the fixtures, well we could have stayed in a nice beach house for 3 nights for the picture you see above. But what would YOU rather have. Family memories to last a lifetime or a brushed nickel handle to turn on your shower water? Am I right or am I right? Here's hoping that our bathtub faucet isn't a 5 day stay at the beach. Ugh! Oh and I didn't mention the custom shower door we're having made because there was no way for regular people to buy the shower door materials and replace it yourself. We have to change the whole thing to replace that gold trim above. Well, the hard water stains on the glass were bugging me anyway. What the heck - throw it all out...

Here's the girls' bathroom "after" painting. When would anyone choose to paint a bathroom pink, you ask? When you have three little princesses to pretty up in that bathroom. (o: I'll take another after with our new pretty cabinet installed above the toilet and the new chrome faucet. Ahhh, at least one bathroom is finished.

You want to know something funny about the pink bathroom? Icabod*, the one person in the house who might not be a big fan of the pink bathroom actually doesn't even notice. It's perfect. He is color blind and the bathroom looks white to him! I'll have to remember that for future reference! Pink shirts, pink ties, pink office... he he he.