The Water Closet
Today, I get to cross off the first of the Fall Fifteen, a completed room makeover. However, I may have cheated a bit by doing a room that is so small it can hardly be considered a room. Our half bath, as the listing agent called it, is only 26 inches wide by 58 inches long. It is very small space indeed. I wouldn’t even bother calling it a half bath. It would make more sense to call it a ¼ bath or maybe we should just say water closet. I mean, there is hardly enough room to turn around with the full sized toilet at one end and a miniature sink at the other.
The reason the room needed some help, in our opinion, was because it came in this disgusting butter cream color that resembled urine more than butter cream. Anyway, it was dingy and no amount of cleaning, scrubbing or elbow grease could make it look clean, even though it was. Plus, I’m not that fond of yellow, at least on my walls, so it was due for a change.
I dug out the leftover gray paint from Pinky’s bedroom makeover and decided to tackle the water closet, with the hopes of somehow making the room seem not quite so claustrophobic.
We also opted to change out the yucky old faucet for something a little sleeker. Just that change alone bumped the room’s coolness factor up by 50 points at least.
In the spring, we found this French convex mirror at a yard sale and snagged it for only $10. Even though it is small, its shape helps to make the room feel a little bigger. Plus, you can stand in front of it and feel like you’re in the fun house at a fair. Function and Humor.
In our previous half bath, we had this “artwork” that I had made with Photoshop and printed out on regular old printer paper. You know how much I like cheap homemade art. Oh, the numbers represent our wedding anniversary. It isn’t too fancy, but it works nicely on the wall above the toilet. Now, Chris never has a good excuse to miss our special day because he must look at it every time he needs to, well you know. Not that he ever did forget.
Here is the throne in all of her glory. Exciting, I know. See that little knob on the top? Yeah, that’s the flusher. (Is that a technical term?)
Luckily for us the darker/ cooler hued paint color, the convex mirror and the accessories worked to make the space feel a tiny bit roomier and cleaner. Success!! So what do you think? Does the makeover make the bath look better? Or would you have left the butter cream paint and opted for some other sort of change? Do tell.
