Primary Bath Refresh - Links and Budget Breakdown
We did it! We finished our third consecutive One Room Challenge and this time we did a little primary bath refresh. We use our upstairs bathroom more than our downstairs one as it’s right off our bedrooms, and we were sick of looking at the old, beaten down one from the early 2000s. We didn’t want to spend a lot of money on this renovation, so we tried our best to use budget friendly materials to keep the cost down. In a few years we would like to put real tile up on the wall, and the floor, and replace the tub and tile surround— but until we have an extra $8k to do that renovation— this will do just fine!
Here’s the budget breakdown, links, and some of our takeaways and tips from the whole project.
We already owned the following items due to buying some of the things for this bathroom about a year ago when we thought we would tackle both bathrooms at once:
Vanity - Lowes - When we bought it a year ago it was about $700 and now its $920! Inflation be cray
Toilet - Home Depot - $219
Mirror - Homesense - $35
Faucet - Amazon - $85 (the black one is no longer available but the brushed gold one looks really pretty!)
Light - West Elm (antique brass) - Was $130 when we bought it, but its $149 now
Toilet Paper Holder - Amazon - $21.99
Shower Curtain - Simons (Discontinued but similar)- (bought two for a fuller look) $50 Each
The following items were bought for the bathroom this month:
Paint and Primer - Cloverdale Thunderstorm (Beadboard) and Summit (Top Half) - $180
Beadboard and Trim- Windsor Plywood - $210
Flooring - Floor Pops Hastings Tile - $130
Wallpaper - Livette’s Wallpaper - Gifted - $0.00
Extra Hooks - Amazon - $25
Misc Incidentals - $83.49
Bath Mat - Indigo - $35
First Aid Box - Homesense (Similar) - $19.99
Total Spent All In: $1,924.47
Total Spent This Month to Complete the One Room Challenge: $683.48
We definitely went way over budget finishing this room up, but all things considered I think we did well. When we go to renovate we are keeping some of the main items in the room — beadboard, vanity, light, toilet etc. and will update tile and the bath and probably paint it a new colour.
Some takeaways from this project:
the budget is always more than you think it will be
when dealing with a light with a large base plate— take it off before you need to change your light because you never know where the box is. When we took ours off, we found it to be not centred on the vanity— which we could see becuase it was under a large vanity light that had a very long plate. By the time we found that out it totally messed up our timeline.
when considering beadboard and trim heights, keep your outlet heights in mind, and anything else that may affect the trim. We managed to figure out a height for the beadboard which was probably higher than traditional, but we wanted to clear the outlets to make sure we weren’t cutting them in half.
All in all we’re really happy with how everything turned out! We’re just so excited to enjoy this bathroom now while we save up for a more permanent solution.
— Brittany