Before and After : Our Bathroom

The bathroom was perhaps the most extreme makeover in our Chicago apartment. It was really dirty... While Dave was away at Aphasia Camp, I spent 3 days scrubbing and painting.

I would like to get some better images, with daylight...

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Note the ugly brown cabinets before:


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More after shots:

I am obsessed with the color "Dirty Robin's Egg Blue." It perfectly compliments the mushroomy greige in the rest of the apartment, so mixed my own version from some left over paint. A week after painting the bathroom I found an actual dirty robin's egg, and the color is an exact match- I am a color mixing genius!! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a better picture before breaking the egg shell:

The bathroom window presented a large problem. The wood on the is rotten. Since this is a rental, our solution was to let it dry out and paint the hell out of it... I used some special primer and then many coats of glossy bathroom paint. The other major problem was privacy. We didn't want to have a second shower curtain. I got inspired by this genius "window film" in a 2Jane catalog, and made my own using double stick tape and plastic drawer liner.