A fresh coat of paint in our master bath!

Oh my goodness you guys...finally finished my first draft of my PhD thesis today and I am EXHAUSTED. Especially after the big dinner and wine hubby and I had. So what better way to celebrate than to show you my before & after paint job in our master bath! (I know, I'm always super logical.)

A few weeks (months?) ago I slowly started to re-paint my master bath. I'm so excited this is the last bathroom in our house to get a new coat of paint! (Though, in these photos I am hiding the fact that the ceilings need some TLC too.) Here's the "before" in Behr Orange Glow. This is one of the realtor's photos from the last time this house was on the market because I'm too scatterbobbed to take photos before starting projects:

I think cool colors work so much better in bathrooms, which are inevitably smaller than other rooms. For this space, since it's oblong-shaped, I thought I'd give a color theory trick that I read about a shot: darker colors on the further away walls (Behr Grant Gray here) to make them appear to advance, and a lighter color on the closer walls (Behr Pewter Vase) to make them appear to recede. I'm pretty happy with the results!

For edges, I like to use a technique called "cutting in" rather than using painter's tape, which I find to be expensive, time-consuming, and pretty annoying to use. I'd explain further, but I instead refer you to youtube...others explain it way better than this amateur ever could. I also use a skinny craft paint brush to get into little corners I can't do precisely with the fat paint brush.

I'm planning on fixing these curtains up a little better, but I really like "Lill" curtains from Ikea and cutting or draping them to size. And I swear, it's not just cuz I'm extremely frugal and they're only $3.99! I also like the way they diffuse and scatter sunlight, and they're lightweight enough to easily hang with a tension rod without installing hardware.

What do you guys think of my little toilet paper roll art? I had it elsewhere for a while, but the silver paint it got looks way better with the color palette in this room than the warmer yellow in the rest of the house. (Again...mounting evidence that I am possessed by a little spray paint demon that makes me use it in every possible situation...) Plus, having art made out of toilet paper just makes logical sense located in the bathroom :)

Happy almost Friday, everyone - weekend is almost here!!! I'm now gonna go from this...

 

...to this.

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