So it is pretty obvious if you have been hanging out with me for long — I love old charming houses. LOVE!!! I especially am giddy about old house bathrooms and kitchens that have been remodeled but retain the original charming features and style. I’m in love with old fashioned white porcelain sinks, pretty faucets, interesting lighting, classic subway tile, plaster and wood walls and unique ceilings. I’m all about the details.
But, I am learning to appreciate the pace and opportunities in a newer house. It is nice to not have to rush into any project. And it is really nice not to have to tear out electrical wiring in the walls and fix plumbing under the house. That stuff was necessary in an old house, but it was always way more expensive that I ever imagined and worst of all for me, it was NOT FUN to look at.
No one really cares if you have beautiful plumbing under the house that cost you fifty bajillion dollars. No one ever asked to enter the crawl space to see our new water pipes or asked to hang out around our new electrical panel. Well, maybe the men did. But the funnest projects for me in my old houses were always the pretty parts of renovation. Sinks, faucets, tile & fresh paint …. oh my!
My new house is going to be really fun once I get on a roll!
In this house, we can jump right into updating things that we actually LOVE looking at — as time, budget or opportunity allows. Now THAT is my kind of fun!
While my only real expectation for renovation projects this year was to paint the interior of my house, I was recently given the opportunity to do a small bathroom makeover through Home Depot! I’m feeling pretty blessed right now, because this was just the incentive my husband and I needed to tackle a fun renovation of our powder room.
Yes, I know, I just painted that powder room this past spring on a rare impulsive whim where friends graciously offered to help me out and paint with me. A paint makeover did wonders for our powder room and I do think it turned out pretty cute, considering all we did was paint! The cute updated vanity will be given to someone in need.
But now I’m excited to begin our very first real room makeover in this house by updating it with some of my favorite classic details. Because it is the smallest room in our house, I’m hoping we can make a big impact and it will help set the tone for what I want my house to look and feel like.
Home Depot is kicking off a Renew and Redo Event this weekend (it runs through February 23) so I was in Home Depot THREE TIMES exploring all my options! I was in complete heaven. I wandered the aisles dreaming of possibilities. I went online and was amazed at the variety and selection they offer there as well, including some really cute vanities and faucets.
I love that you can update a bathroom with as little as new cabinet hardware, a new faucet, new paint or even expand your project to include new tile or a brand new vanity (they have some cute ones online that I was really tempted by!). Simple and fun updates are so affordable! I have two other bathrooms that will hopefully be getting paint and new cabinet hardware this year too so it was fun to think through all my bathrooms and what I could possibly do in time.
Check out the Home Depot Renew and Redo event and see what might inspire you!
Here is what we found to kick off our new “old house” DIY makeover.
- A classic white pedestal sink
- New classic faucet
- White subway tile
- Wood paneling & Paint
SQUEEEEE!!! Ah. I’m going to feel more at home here REALLY soon. That is all I’m gonna tell you for now.
I’ll be getting this bathroom renovation project underway once I’m back from Blissdom next week! It should be fun — it has been awhile since my hubby and I have tackled more than painting a room, so this could be humorous. We’ll see.
$100 HOME DEPOT GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!!
To help one lucky reader get started on a little project of your own, Home Depot is offering a $100 gift card to one of my readers! HOW AWESOME is that, we could redo our bathrooms at the same time!!? All you have to do is leave a comment here on this post!
Tell me what updates you would like to make to your bathroom (or about your favorite bathroom updates) and if you are scared for me knowing I’m going to be tiling something. I know. It is kind of scary.
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For the master bath (can you call it that if it is only 5′x6′?), we need a vanity with sink and new shower stall.
My darling hubbie is over 6′ tall. The 5′ high shower head and 2′x 2′ stall size, his nemesis.
The 23″ vanity is o-l-d, with no room for storage.
Two doors on two walls with the other two walls being occupied with…you guessed it…shower stall on one, and the vanity & toilette on the other.
I prefer to think of the room as just ‘a little jewel in the rough’. LOL!
I just painted our hall bathroom Sea Salt (during the kids’ naps). Still planning on restaining the vanity and replacing the hideous 70′s mirror. Dreaming of white beadboard eventually. Thanks for the chance to win!
I need a lot of “small” things! Paint, accessories, mirrors…$100 would go a long way!
Holy crap! I could use this. We ran out of money during our renovation. I would get a new bowl sink. We still have a shop sink in the bathroom…ugh!
I have one of those older homes in need of lots of updates…faucets, subway tile, flooring come to mind first! Count me in the give-away please!
I look forward to following your bathroom update.
I would love a new faucet and lighting!
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Hmm, where to start? Our first home needs some tlc and a new shower (since the previous homeowner’s dyi mess is starting to cause problems) would be first. I’ve also been lovingly informed my guest bath’s cabinets looked like the color of “baby poo”. And I have to agree, we’ve wanted to repaint/replace those the day we moved in.
I would love a new vanity and countertop/sink for our downstairs bathroom. We live in that “old” house that needs all of the updating. And, YES, I am tired of spending money on things we can’t see!
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I am currently in the throws of a bathroom redo. Decisions Decsions Decisions! Oh My! I wish a bathroom genie would appear out of the faucet and all of it would be done.
I’m going to re-do my entire bathroom so a gift card would surely help!!
I believe our bathroom is original to the house (1967), so you can only imagine the horror. The current vanity doesn’t really ‘fit’ in the space. So much in fact that the door can’t open all the way! Then there’s the linolium, the aging shower, and the lighting. It’s pretty much a gut job!
My bathroom needs some retiling perhaps new tile…
I would LOVE to tile in 2 bathrooms and definitely paint 2.
we are in the process of looking to add a 2nd bathroom!! So I need everything, and luckily- have a blank canvas!!!
Where to start! Pull the weird panels off, regrout tile, rip out a mouldy cupboard, and paint! Hopefully without any nasty surprises along the way.
I just bought my first home a year ago! It is a tiny 1948 ranch that I am slowly sprucing up over time to be a bit more cottagey. I’ve already put in a veggie garden and exposed the original hardwood floors, among other projects. The bathroom is next on my list. The house has only one small bathroom that has been “updated” about thirty years ago, and I want to give it a much more fresher, vintage feel. It sounds like my plan is similar to yours, with subway tiles and new fixtures. $100 would go so far in that room!
Don’t worry about tiling! People do it on TV all the time.
I could totally use a gift card to Home Depot! We are planning on changing our shower door and that would be a big help!
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I would love to add wainscoting to our guest bathroom!
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I would LOVE to redo our master bath. I would really love to re-tile the whole thing! I even took the workshop at Home Depot for tiling but I haven’t built up the courage to actually do it.
I would rip up the carpet in our master bath (so gross!!!) and tile.
We really need new tile flooring in our master bath and kids’ bath. Thanks for asking!
We have two bathrooms in our house (built in the 1800s!) which desperately need re-doing. (One is actually missing part of its floor:)) I need everything from light fixtures for around the sink(have seen some great ones at Home Depot) to paint!
(Good luck on your project w/your hubby!)
I love our light fixtures, our counters, our cabinets, and our floor the most in our bathroom redo. And our faucets! I love it all! I have lots of drawers in my bathroom instead of a seating vanity area. I can store towels in the drawers in what before was just unused space.
I live in a home built in 1910. So as you might expect it is a lot of work and money to update it. I would like to rearrange my bathroom to accommodate a laundry center in a portion of the room. This will be a major undertaking so winning a gift card would be amazing!
I would tile our bathroom. It’s been concrete slab for 2 years!
Wood for framing our mirrors, some kind of shelving or a cabinet to give a bit more storage, and, in the unfun department, we need a new toilet!
Happy Blissdom week!
We are in the process(just started this week) of remodeling our upstairs bedroom. We’re wanting to add a bath, and I’m definately puting in a pedestal sink. I also want to paint it a light baby blue.
I am completely re-doing our powder room-new floor tile, vanity,lighting, faucet, mirror and paint. A Home Depot gift card would be an amazing start!
I’ve been in my home for 30 years and need a bathroom redo. I need tile, new shower doors and cabinets. I love Home Depot and shop their often. Thanks for the chance to win.
We bought a foreclosure and have done all we can to make our bathrooms work without havnig to put major work, money and time into them. But I see that day coming sooner than later! We need a new countertop and sink badly in our hall bathroom. But my real dream is to demolish a MASSIVE built in cabinet that’s in the hallway bathroom that takes over the space in our master bathroom that would allow us to have a full size tub and shower. That is our long term goal – to get rid of that and have an actual master bathroom instead of this stupid half shower that can’t be used by anyone that’s a normal size adult! *laugh*
We renovated our bath in 2008! My fav is the white subway tile with black grout. Very sleek. I also loved that we tiled all the way to the ceiling!
I have this faucet in my newly remodeled bath and I love it, we also used subway tile for the bath surround and it is so pretty! I would love to finish up and a Home Depot visit would be soooo helpful.