Freshen Up the Bathroom

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In one weekend and with about $500.00 you can refresh your tired old bathroom. The bathroom is so small that it makes the perfect place to try something new. You can try to sponge paint or do texture and if you aren't satisfied with it you can paint it over the next day! You can change the look of your floor by painting it using stencils. You could create chair rails. Make your own shower curtains.

If you like the look of old fashioned tin ceilings, then you'll love the Norwall Traditional Ceiling Tile Paintable Wallpaper $12 for 56 sq. ft. roll at Lowe's). "It's a textured wallpaper that looks like embossed white plaster," says designer Audra Kennedy, of Audra Kennedy Designs in Huntsville, Ala.

Tired of your vinyl flooring? Paint it! Make sure to prime it first with a specialty primer and then consider creating a tile pattern or using stencils for a border. Follow with four to six coats of polyurethane, which essentially serves as a coat of plastic. Here's another creative, and really economical, idea from Kathy Wilson: tear off irregular size pieces from brown paper bags, glue them to the floor and top with four to six coats of polyurethane. "It looks like leather or stone," says Wilson. "You can also stain it different colors."

By Alice Daniel

There are many things you can do to change the dated look of your bathroom without spending too much money or time. Be creative, try something you have never done before. You just might suprise yourself as to what you can do.

Freshen Up the Bathroom

[missmanors]

My bathroom is my favorite place to change, lol. I can redo it in a day or 2 to make it look completely different. I like to change the base color of my walls, and then stamp on different colors using a theme (right now it's frogs) and it looks really cute. Soon I plan to redo it again, this time changing it to some type of flowers, which I will paint free hand. Then all I have to do is to put up some new shower curtains, and window curtains and it'll again have a completely different look.

[hometowngrl53]

send us some pictures i bet the frog theme is really cute and i would so love to see the flowers you paint do you paint just flowers or are there other things you paint and do you have pictures of some of your paintings

[thohome]

I love the glue torn paper bags to the floor with the polyurethane over top. That just sounds so neat looking and I bet that it does look like stone tiles. I would love to try that but I think my husband would think that I have lost my mind. I would have to do a sample on a board to show him what it would look like before he would even consider me doing it for really. Ingenious just love the idea.