FINALLY! A Bathroom Remodel Plan For The Two 90s Bathrooms In Kaitlin’s Home

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Well, I conjecture this is wherever I formally present myself to you, EHD readers! You’ve seen galore photos I’ve taken, you’ve seen my basement, bedroom and living room makeovers that our girl, Emily, has truthful graciously helped america design, and you whitethorn person seen tiny bits of my look successful immoderate of the photos/videos from squad retreats—I’m much of a behind-the-camera-gal than successful beforehand of it. While I’m not an authoritative EHD employee, it’s been truthful amusive to beryllium a portion of this team.

Back successful 2021, my household and I made the large determination from the Eastside of Portland to the Westside for much space/more yard/slower lifestyle, etc. All the aforesaid reasons a batch of young parents determination to the ‘burbs. Around that aforesaid time, a communal person of some Emily and I, Max Humphrey, introduced the 2 of us. The Hendersons’ rental location (while the farmhouse was being renovated) was successful my neighborhood. Because we lived truthful close, Max thought Emily and I should beryllium friends :) While she’s nary longer up the thoroughfare from me, she’s conscionable a abbreviated 7-minute door-to-door thrust away. It’s been a beauteous large small partnership/friendship these past fewer years.

Emily has fixed a small spot of a rundown of our location successful erstwhile reveals, but arsenic a refresher, our location was built successful 1962, and we are the 2nd owners. The erstwhile owners made a fewer (somewhat questionable) updates, apt successful the 90s/early 2000s. But we inactive did a beauteous ample and indispensable remodel erstwhile we moved in. We beauteous overmuch painted everything achromatic to start, and slowly, with the assistance of Emily, person been adding successful much colour and character.

The Bathrooms

Though we made immoderate beauteous large changes aboriginal on, wealth and patience ran dry, and we were okay, oregon much similar had to beryllium okay, putting bathrooms connected the backmost burner, knowing precise good that someday they would request immoderate superior love.

The Primary

Here’s what the superior bath looked similar connected the time we bought the house. And truly, earlier our contractors demo’d it a mates of weeks ago, it inactive looked beauteous overmuch precisely similar this 4 years later! I had zero tendency to bash an “in the meantime” speedy makeover. I didn’t privation to regenerate hardware, overgarment the cabinets, bent a caller towel bar–I didn’t privation to discarded a azygous dollar connected bettering this space. (I’m the boring penny-pincher successful my family, tin you tell?) Honestly, speech from being small, it’s fine. Does the off-center airy fixture, ablution tile grout that ne'er really comes clean, and peeling linoleum flooring thrust america insane? Of course. But our erstwhile 1905 Eastside location had 1 tiny bath downstairs and disconnected the kitchen, truthful an “en suite”, tiny arsenic it is, felt and inactive feels precise luxurious. I knew that erstwhile we saved up, our “someday” remodel would travel eventually, truthful investing immoderate clip into this abstraction felt unnecessary.

Here are a fewer much photos earlier demo truly started:

The Kids’

On the different broadside of our bath partition is my daughters’ bathroom–equally hideous and luxurious. I accidental luxurious, again, due to the fact that I shared a precise tiny bath with my parents and member increasing up, truthful what a dainty it is for my daughters to person their own. This abstraction has besides not been touched successful 4 years. Between bath times erstwhile my girls were little, playing nail salon, and doing the huffy morning-dash to get disconnected to school, I’ve really spent a batch much clip successful this bath than my own. The impulse to bash a fewer of those tiny updates successful this bath came… and then, eventually, dissipated. In the end, the linoleum is inactive the linoleum, and the off-center lighting volition inactive beryllium off-center. The clip and resources for the tiny updates conscionable didn’t marque consciousness to me.

If it’s not ace evident from these photos, these bathrooms are tiny. Because it’s not financially an enactment to grow the wide footprint, the champion we tin bash is marque them much functional and much pretty. In comes Miss Henderson :)

AllModern reached retired to Emily astir a concern a fewer months ago, and we each felt similar this could beryllium the cleanable accidental to yet bash immoderate updating. They person a large enactment of bath items, from vanities to lighting to plumbing–a spot of a one-stop shop.

To beryllium precise honorable with you, bathrooms stump me, design-wise. Everything feels (and is!) SO permanent. I had a hard clip truly knowing what I adjacent wanted for our superior bathroom. I pulled images of truthful galore astonishing pieces from AllModern’s site, but couldn’t get a cohesive plan going that felt similar us. But then, precocious 1 nighttime during a doom scroll, I saw my person and unthinkable prop stylist/designer present successful Portland, Karie Higgins, posted a photograph of a beauteous bath with a BAINA towel successful it. This led maine to BAINA’s website, wherever I fell successful emotion with the colour strategy of 1 of their stack of towels, and the remainder is history.

Once I’d decided connected colors I liked, everything other started to autumn into place. I recovered this gorgeous white oak vanity and paired it with this medicine cabinet.

I was besides beauteous sold connected some the floors and the ablution being bluish quadrate tile. I instantly pulled retired each the samples I’d gathered erstwhile we redid our fireplace and ordered a clump more. We yet landed connected this beauteous light bluish tile that Fireclay generously gifted. We’ll beryllium utilizing 2×2 squares connected the level and 4×4 squares successful the shower.

Here’s the moodboard I sent to Emily a mates of months ago. Honestly, I was conscionable hoping she wouldn’t hatred it—because by that point, I was wholly sold connected the full thing. Good news: she loved it too.

Medicine Cabinet | Vanity | Tile | Checkered Towels | Striped Towels

Moving connected to the kids’ bath…

Making decisions for their bath felt a spot easier than for ours. We knew we didn’t privation to spell excessively “little girl” successful here. My daughters are astir 5 and 8, truthful it would beryllium beauteous casual to get carried distant and plan for their ages now. We inactive wanted it to beryllium fun, but hopefully, a bath they’ll bask erstwhile they’re successful their teens, arsenic well.

We recovered this beauteous vanity and paired it with a large built-in mirror/medicine cabinet.
Fireclay was benignant capable to acquisition america tile for some the superior bath and for our girls’ bathroom. We’re going with this gorgeous 2×2 creamy-colored square tile for the level and volition beryllium doing a 4×4 signifier for the bathtub walls successful this fun, warm yellow and pale pink. While the tile was ordered with the volition of doing a checkered pattern, we cognize I emotion checkered, I americium wondering if a stripe would beryllium beauteous instead?

Medicine Cabinet | Vanity | Wall Tile (yellow and pink) | Floor Tile

Medicine Cabinet | Vanity | Wall Tile (yellow and pink) | Floor Tile

And, that’s wherever we basal today! Demo began a fewer weeks ago, and the unit (thanks, Afore!) is plugging along. Tile should beryllium starting successful the adjacent week oregon so. Excited to stock the finished merchandise with you each successful the coming weeks :)

Opening Image Credits: Photo by Kaitlin Green | From: Kaitlin’s 70s Inspired, Colorful And Cool Living Room Revealed (Y’all, I’m So Jealous)

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