… is what I heard from multiple people on multiple occasions about this bathroom color. If you know me personally, you know I have hard opinions on things. I love a bold look in a powder room – it’s the best place to try out whatever crazy ideas you have, since the space is so small. Our last powder room was a Master’s jacket green, that my husband loved but just wasn’t right to me. I painted it Benjamin Moore’s Hale Navy, and I LOVED it. (Austin might have stayed mad that I painted it the whole time we lived in that house… sorry not sorry, it was a bad green that just didn’t work)
It wasn’t perfect by any means, but it was a little bold and I loved it. In this house, I decided I wanted… wait for it… green walls. Yeah, I know.
But masters jacket green and the green I chose aren’t the same, I don’t care what anyone says. Undertones and things.
This time around, the color choice was Sherwin Williams Hunt Club. The powder room was a super pale blue to begin with, so the first brushes of paint were a little bit intense. My father-in-law decided to get started on day when I wasn’t there and I got a text with this photo and an “….. are you sure?”.
Yep, still sure. Thankfully, everyone in my life is super helpful and also has a “you have to live with it, not me” attitude, because this was the text with the final result:
This crazy colored powder room gives me life. I am 100% here for this.
This room has a couple of throw together fixtures since we had to have things mostly put together for a good appraisal and doing things quickly means doing them cheaply sometimes… I don’t want you guys to think we’re on trend with mixing metals or anything. I just liked this sink and had to have my Target mirror because obviously. Everything is still a work in progress!
Instead of installing a towel hook or a toilet paper holder, I bought a cheap hook for the towel, brought back the gold table from the last powder room and got a basket for the toilet paper and homemade air freshener. Nothing crazy or difficult going on around here! I basically recycled exactly the same gallery wall from our last powder room as well. Pro tip – if you’re going for that truly collected look with your gallery wall, just start hanging. I will always tell people to eyeball instead of being careful and measuring things. #typeBpersonality The shelves are a super cheap and easy project – I spray painted a few cheap brackets gold, and made the shelves out of literally the cheapest board I could buy at Home Depot. Paint and stain work wonders!
So fun fact about this bathroom – there’s a (basically) floor to ceiling window in there that’s connected to our front porch directly next to the toilet. I have a curtain hung over it, but what I know about how light works tells me that people driving by can probably still see us using this toilet at night (whoops). I’m currently debating between adding a blackout liner to this curtain and hemming it to be the correct length, or splurging a little bit and getting plantation shutters. Thoughts?
The pups would probably want us to keep the curtain.
Also, we will be discussing that time that I painted over a green bathroom that Austin liked and I hated and then painted a bathroom a similar (but different!) green in a new house until we die. This will never go away. My bad.
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