The whole house (ceiling and walls) were painted one tan color by the builder, so our long term goals are to change the ceilings to white and add crown molding. Our master bathroom was the first room we decided to "re-paint" and add our personal touches to above and beyond the builder standards or upgrades.
Here is our journey....
The first step was painting the ceiling white and we chose the same color that the builder painted the trim. Then we painted the walls of the main bath area Martha Stewart "". We painted the toilet room walls a slightly darker shade of grey, Martha Stewart's "".
We made the frame for the mirror out of 1/2" MDF and then painted the first layers with the trim color and the second layers with the same darker grey as the toilet room (Martha Stewart's "").
The electrical outlet on the side of the mirror presented a "challenge" which we ended up working around by carefully planning the wood trim to cover it and utilized an electrical box extension with electrical shims.
We used Liquid Nails in order to attach the wood trim to the mirror and finish nails where possible.
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| Image of the trim cut out around the electrical outlet. |
Next, we moved onto painting the half bath the darker color.
Then came the molding which Paul installed using the finish nail gun.
We installed new accessories to replace the builder installed standards which were literally the cheapest ones you can buy at Home Depot. We bought the new ones from the Martha Stewart Collection at Home Depot.
We painted the trim with the same color as the ceiling and other trim.
I used a palm sander to "distress" the paint on the mirror trim.
