Back in September, I posted about our bathroom remodel.  I wrote how the toilet worked now but the vanity still needed to be placed along with the mirror.  I’m happy to report that 4 MONTHS after the post the bathroom is ACTUALLY finished!  Yeah!  Sometime in August it came “undone” and now it’s finished.  One of the things holding Jeff up was that he really didn’t like the the brown and white stripe’s I had painted and was unhappy about the construction of the fairly inexpensive vanity we purchased.  Of course the longer the vanity sat in our house, the more we owned it.  There was no taking it back.  Combine the vanity with crappy paint colors and he was less than enthusiastic about finishing the bathroom.  I decided I’d repaint the white stripes with a chocolate brown to match the stripe in the girls room then we’d have dark brown and light brown stripes.  Only this looked even worse!  So I was sent off to the store to look through some magazines and come back with some paint samples.  I spent nearly two hours at Lowe’s and Home Depot but I came back with some paint colors.  After two hours, I was a little tired of looking at paint colors so I choose a booklet titled “red-toned neutrals” and decided that I was picking from this brochure as the vanity has red-toned wood. And the colors that I choose surprised me!  But no matter how odd it seemed the colors really pulled the bathroom together. 

Here’s what the walls looked like in August when I painted the brown/white stripes.  Nice, crisp lines but pretty bland overall.



Here are the paint samples that I came home with.  An ivory, a shade of brown and a purple color.

Now, I really debating bringing the purple home.  It seemed like a crazy choice especially since when we bought our house the entire master bedroom was a deep purple color that I hated but lived with for much longer than I cared to — maybe three years??.  Here’s the master bedroom color that I hated:

So I thought Jeff might say “hell NO!” when I came home with a purple in my paint sample.  But seriously, it was in the red-toned neutral’s booklet and when I held it up against the vanity it looked really good.  So I painted the bathroom….again….

We debated which wall to paint purple as the rest would be a slightly different (darker) shade of the same brown in the rest of the house.  I decided to go for it and paint the main wall purple.  Who would think that a purple and brown would go together.  But it looked good and Jeff finished up the vanity in a week.  I am pleased to have the girls out of our bathroom and have the bathroom completed.  We need a few new accessories to add and I need to paint the white grout around the vanity but it looks so much nicer!

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