Megadayoff: Episode 3

I finally painted our bathroom.
I've hated it passionately since we moved here in July.
The walls and ceiling were painted mint green.
GREEN CEILING! In the bathroom??
Every time I turned the vanity light on to do my makeup, my skin had a sickly green glow.
Not good.

With Pat gone to work, I got started taping and painting.
This was a big job for one day!

It took three coats of white ceiling paint to totally hide all of the green.
I was super picky about it, because the lights are so close to the ceiling, and so bright that they would show any green.

For the walls, I used the leftover paint from our bedroom.
Sherwin Williams: Gray Shingle
I love it!

Pat is obsessed with Snoopy, so our bathroom has a bit of that theme going on.
The gray works with the black and white and occasional pop of red.

I have a lot of spots I'll need to touch up since they were very sloppy with the green. It's in the tile grout, and on the door frame. That will be a project for another day.

Green painted grout!

I also stripped and painted the wall mounted heating vent.
It doesn't look perfect, but it's was a bit damaged under all the layers of paint, and a new one costs about $40 for that size.

Blends into the wall.

This vent had about 10 coats of paint on it. Apparently no one ever bothered to take it off the wall when painting.
I removed the paint by boiling water with some baking soda. It came right off.
It was a pain trying to get in every line of the vent, but I used tweezers and an old toothbrush and it off pretty easily.
The metal was damaged and pitted, so it did need to be repainted.
I decided to paint it metal color. Imagine that!
I hit it with a spray on primer first, and then a coat of chrome spray paint. Boom. Done.


The next project will be to redo the vanity.
I read this post about how to give it a dark look for a pretty low cost.
It will take a few days to do, and I'm excited to get started!

I'm still not happy with the giant mirror, ugly counter top or the floor colors. However, they will be fine for now. There isn't anything functionally wrong with any of them, and the cost of redoing that can't be justified at the moment. (If I do get that counter-top kit for the kitchen, I'll hope to have enough left to do the bathroom too!)