Pink Bathroom Makeover on a Budget
Our pink bathroom makeover on a budget is complete! In case you missed this post, after we completed our en suite bathroom renovation, the sad state of our pink bathroom was magnified. We will fully renovate this bathroom eventually, but that will not happen for at least a year or two. My goal with this update was to make the bathroom fresher and brighter for under $200.
So I may have managed to stay under $200 (like way under), but only because I put a LOT of work into this bathroom update. Stenciling floors is no joke. I estimated that this would be a weekend-long project. HA. Try two weeks. And I almost gave up multiple times. However, the time and effort was all worth it in the end and I would recommend this kind of update to anyone with an outdated bathroom! At the very least, painting your walls and vanity are easy projects that can really change your space. Below is an outline of all the steps I took to refresh this pink bathroom, as well as the materials used and total cost.
Bathroom Makeover To Do List:
- Take down wallpaper
- Scrub all bathroom surfaces with hot water and bleach
- Source materials
- Paint walls
- Tape areas to prep for painting tile, floor, and vanity
- Paint tile trim
- Prime floors
- Paint and stencil floors
- Poly floors
- Prime vanity
- Paint and poly vanity
- Decorate
Materials:
- Stencil – $9
- Chalk Paint in Aged Gray – $20
- Chalk Paint in Linen White – $20
- Foam roller – $7
- Foam brush – $5 for multi-pack
- Frog tape -$8
- Zinnser Primer – $15
- Minwax Satin Water-Based Polyurethane -$18
- 1 quart Sherwin Williams Cascade Green – $8
- Angled paintbrush – owned previously
- Benjamin Moore Decorators White Paint – leftover from another project
- Art – handmade
- Vice Jars – handmade
- Towels – owned previously
- Shower curtain – $15
- Patience – about 1 year of my life
Bathroom Makeover Total: $125
WHAT?! So much improvement for so little money! Most importantly, goooooooodbye to the black asbestos floors, plastic tiles, and particle board vanity! I apologize to anyone who likes a pink/black combination, but I cannot STAND it. And it looked particularly dark and dirty in this bathroom with no natural light. Painting the floor, vanity, and tile trim really brightened up the space. It also allowed me to bring in a warmer color palette that makes the pink tile far less offensive.
My original plan was to create a separate how-to post on painting floors, but honestly, I didn’t do the best job. There are so many guides to painting floors that already exist on the internet. I personally used Jessica Brigham’s post as a guide and would recommend checking it out! To sum it up, I used the stencil, foam roller/brush, primer, chalk paints, extra pink and orange paints from another project, and polyurethane sealer to complete the project. I did 3 coats of everything except the primer. Yes, 3 full coats. So prime, 3 coats grey paint, 3 coats white paint on the stencil, 3 coats of each accent color, 3 coats of poly. It was a lot, but so worth it.
This pink bathroom makeover on a budget took WAY longer than expected, but I’m still so happy I went forward with this project. I no longer cringe walking into this bathroom, and instead I find myself wandering past it to marvel at how cute it looks! If you have an ugly bathroom and a small budget, I highly recommend painting. It makes a big impact and doesn’t have to cost a ton of money. That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed these before and after photos, and be sure to tag me if you start your own budget bathroom makeover!
