After ten years with the same ugly striped wallpaper in my bathroom we are finally giving this room a completely makeover. This article will give you data on the products and methods we’re making use of to spruce it up.

Before we could do anything we had to first decide what we wanted the new bathroom to be. Since this is our main bathroom and I wasn’t willing to have it be out of commission for a lot more than a day at a time, we limited ourselves to reasonable projects that could be completely quickly and in stages. This will maintain the functionality in the room. This means keeping the tub and shower combination and only replacing the vanity as the major fixture upgrade. Our makeover will include the ceiling, walls and floor, as well as a new vanity, painted medicine cabinet and new faucet fixtures.

Additionally we are stripping off the ceiling (that spackle popcorn stuff) because the high moisture from the bathroom is already causing it to fall down around us. I have already started scraping the ceiling down towards the ceiling board applying a easy paint scraper tool. Since we’re also replacing the floor (getting rid with the stained vinyl sheeting and replacing with vinyl floor tiles) we don’t have to protect the floor from falling ceiling debris. For the finished ceiling we are using paintable white decorative ceiling tiles (they come in large sheets) and most likely won’t end up painting them. They’re plastic, bought from Menards and cost about $97 for a 4 ft by 8ft sheet. We’ll need four sheets. They are supposed to be glued towards the ceiling and with proper overlap must withstand the moisture of a steamy bathroom.

For the color scheme we chose dark brown walls with white trim. Accents will be dark brown, carmel and white towels, a dark cinnamon brown vanity base with a white sink top and we’re painting the medicine cabinet white (both to save money and mainly because the 3 way mirror design we have is hard to discover in stores today.)

The bathroom has striped wallpaper that must be stripped off so we’re using a standard wallpaper scraping tool (round, fits in your hand, makes a million little holes within the paper) and then spraying on a solution to eat the glue backing. So far the paper is coming off in nice large chunks, which is a large timesaver.

The author enjoys writing about a variety of topics. For her bathroom she has focused on bathtub refinishing reviews and Hot Tools flat iron. She also recently redid her kitchen and used do it yourself kitchen cabinets.