Chris and I are lucky our house even has a Master Bathroom because they aren't common in my neighborhood and especially not in houses as old as ours. Our Master Bath was probably the biggest problem area in the house. The bathtub clearly had been used by the renovators (who we bought the house from) to clean paintbrushes to throw things a
nd it was scratched, stained and covered in drips of paint so needless to say we had to replace the bathtub. Further, they had bought a cheap plastic surround that we ripped out and replaced with white subway tile. The bath fixtures were cheap and unappealing so we replaced
those as well. Here is the fruits of our labor...
The Before...
The bath was a spring green color and everything was cheap and very standard.
The After
We added the train rack and replaced all of the fixtures. We replaced the bathtub and tiled. We decided to leave the bathroom very plain and we haven't put anything on the walls because I wanted it to feel very clean and crisp. I wanted it to have an apothecary feel to it.
The only project we did not complete were glass doors for the tub. My husband very wisely thought that young parents who are having to bathe children are not going to want tub doors so we left them off. We also decided to leave the beadboard which I originally planned to remove and replace with more subway tile. We decided it was a bit too expensive and that since we had no idea what was behind the beadboard not to tempt fate.
All building materials were from Lowes and Home Depot. All fixtures came from Pottery Barn.