Hurray for me! I just finished tackling the vanity in my guest bath and I'm realizing this is going to take much longer than I had hoped, when I get home from work I'm tired, can't seem to get very much done ;-(
with stencil
The doors
My initial thought was to wax, but knowing this will get lots of banging, so I instead went with poly (polyurethane) . I waited a day or 2 before applying the poly and applied 4 or 5 coats. From my experience poly is very durable and can take a lot of banging I haven't had very much experience with wax and didn't want to take any chances.
For my faucet I decided on a this
Vanity Before
Vanity After
I thought this was a big improvement. Unfortunately, I didn't have the same luck with my tub.
This was my bath faucet
I really wanted something fancy like my sink, but this was all I could find (boring chrome)
Anyways, to make a long story short, I opted to spray paint my bath faucets instead. The plumber was afraid to take them off for fear that he might damage them, so I had to spray paint them while they were still on the wall. All I could think about was I had just painted my tiles (sob).
But I managed it and this is how they turned out!
BEFORE
AFTER
No, it's not Moen, it's paint, but it works for me!
I'm going to give myself a 1-2 day break, get some studying in, and then start working on that frame for my mirror; until then LET YOUR CREATIVITY FLOW!
Earlier I had already painted the walls, tiles, soap dish, etc. You can read more about that here.
This was my next project
This was my next project
I decided to add some detail to the sink by adding raised stenciling around the sink and on the doors. If you're not sure about raised stenciling you can go here.
BEFORE
with stencil
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| raised stenciling |
The door BEFORE (doors were taken down before I thought to take picture)
with raised stencil
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| raised stenciling |
You can see I added a little paint to the compound before stenciling, that way when I'm ready to distress it the brown (rather than white compound) will show through.
For painting I decided to go with homemade chalk paint ("HCP") I used two colors, one was a Caramel and the other ??? Avocado (sorry can't remember name). I used the same recipe for HCP that I used on my ceramic tiles (read more here) you can get the recipe from here.
The Caramel HCP went on as the base coat and the Avocado 2nd coat. Initially I wanted to distress the vanity, but I had second thoughts and decided to just distress the stenciling instead. However, some of the Caramel can be seen through in certain areas.
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| raised stenciling |
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| avocado vanity with raised stenciling |
The doors
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| raised stenciling |
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| raised stenciling on bathroom vanity |
My initial thought was to wax, but knowing this will get lots of banging, so I instead went with poly (polyurethane) . I waited a day or 2 before applying the poly and applied 4 or 5 coats. From my experience poly is very durable and can take a lot of banging I haven't had very much experience with wax and didn't want to take any chances.
For my faucet I decided on a this
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| raised stenciling on bathroom vanity |
Vanity Before
Vanity After
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| raised stenciling on bathroom vanity |
I thought this was a big improvement. Unfortunately, I didn't have the same luck with my tub.
This was my bath faucet
I really wanted something fancy like my sink, but this was all I could find (boring chrome)
Anyways, to make a long story short, I opted to spray paint my bath faucets instead. The plumber was afraid to take them off for fear that he might damage them, so I had to spray paint them while they were still on the wall. All I could think about was I had just painted my tiles (sob).
But I managed it and this is how they turned out!
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| spray painted shower head |
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| spray painted bathtub fixtures / faucet |
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| spray painted bathtub fixtures / faucet |
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| spray painted bathtub faucet / fixtures. |
BEFORE
AFTER
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| spray painted bathroom fixtures / faucet |
No, it's not Moen, it's paint, but it works for me!
Projects to Complete
Paint the wallPaint the wall tilesPaint the vanity- Frame the mirror
- Put caulking at base of tub
- Change light fixture
& faucets - Scrape soap off ceiling
- Change window treatment & accessories
I'm going to give myself a 1-2 day break, get some studying in, and then start working on that frame for my mirror; until then LET YOUR CREATIVITY FLOW!
