A Tale of Two Rooms - Office and Bathroom

We're down to the last two rooms we renovated in our last house.  The office was the other room that was extremely small, and the ceiling had some significant water damage to the ceiling.

OFFICE

Office before - this is pretty much it.  Only big enough for a desk.

Office after - we put up a new ceiling and added trim, paint, window treatments and the same flooring.

BATHROOM

Where the office was only a minor change, the bathroom updates came out surprisingly fantastic, considering it was mostly paint and a little tiling.

Bathroom befrore - yes, it's small (typical of the time period of the house).  There were some 'updates' in here from previous owners, but the peel and stick flooring had to go!  We decided to keep the tileboard on the wall due to cost.

Bathroom after - we found a vinyl 'end' at the store Darren worked at and put it on the floor.  We also added floating shelves to the wall, painted the vanity, added a new mirror, toilet seat and light fixture, and tiled the tub surround.  Painting the trim a darker color than the wall was a risk, but it helped to tie everything together and helped show off the high ceilings.

Bathroom before

Bathroom Vanity after - with paint it looks like a new vanity!  The mirror was found at Winners and the light fixture at Home Depot.

Bathtub before

Bathtub after - we ripped out the tub surround (kept the tub part), and found some tiles on discount.  We splurged a bit for the border tiles, but we could cut the mesh tiles and determine how many rows we wanted the border to be (since the walls were old and uneven, we decided that as we went!)

Corner before - there was a weird hole/space in the wall between the window and the tub surround.  We knew that couldn't stay, but we weren't quite sure what to do.

Corner after - my husband cut the window trim slightly so we could flatten and fill the 'hole' in with drywall.  We then tiled over it (just as a side note - we did shell out the money for the proper waterproof membrane under the tile),  We found a faucet/shower head set for under $60, and added a curved curtain rod and inexpensive curtains.

This is the MLS picture taken - in total, the bathroom 'reno' update was only about $500.  Moving away from that bathroom made me sad!


Even though this 80 year old house had issues, I loved living there.  I loved the character that it had, and that we were able to enhance.  We were able to sell it to people who appreciated the character and everything we had done.  It was only on the market for 5 days.