"master" bathroom

today i thought i'd show you our master bathroom update . . . that we did last february.
i kept waiting to show this room until it was totally finished...i.e. painting & art.
however, we don't know how long we are going to live here, so i thought i'd just go ahead and document what we've done so far.

the master bathroom is teeeeeny.
this house was built in 1980 and they just didn't make master bathroom's the same 30 years ago.
when we moved in the sink had a leak and henceforth, look like this:

ewwww....doesn't really make ya wanna wash your face in it.
plus, there was no storage except the cabinet under the sink.
which is why all that junk is sitting on the counter.

the floor also left something to be desired....30 year old linoleum that was peeling up:

claaaaasy.
isn't that cabinet lovely??

there was one long brass {plastic} towel rack on the wall by the shower and no towel rack by the sink.

because the people that own this house are awesome, they told us we could pick out whatever sink we wanted and basically do whatever we wanted in here.
they are a dream to rent from.

the first thing we did was to rip up the linoleum and put new floor down. 
we had left over vinyl faux wood planks from our last house so we used those in both upstairs bathrooms. 

also, in the photo above you can see we updated the towel bar to a nicer brushed stainless {not plastic} one.
we chose brushed stainless to match the existing light fixture.
i also painted the trim, glossy white.
 {sorry about the lighting, it's a rainy, dark day plus no windows in this bathroom for natural light}

we got a new sink, cabinet, medicine cabinet, towel racks & paper holder off the shelf at lowes.

i looked and looked for shelves to add much needed storage and couldn't find the right thing.
thankfully, my step dad is a cabinet maker {he also made the shelves in our living room} and he made these shelves to custom fit this space.

i bought some natural baskets half off at hobby lobby and our storage issue is solved.
the medicine cabinet also provides additional storage.

 

so that's our little bathroom update.

anyone else out there have teensy bathrooms that require creative storage?


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