Bathroom Vanity Makeover with Chalk Paint
Our upstairs bathroom, which is the main bathroom in our house, is on the list next for a makeover. And it has a loooooong to do list. One weekend while my husband was out of town, I did a mini makeover of sorts {planned} and it turned into me ripping up the floor {unplanned}. These are things I do for fun 🙂 One item I wanted to do in the makeover was to paint the vanity. I decided that the best solution was a chalk paint makeover.
Enter the before, it needs paint. Or demo. Paint was in doable in a weekend. This is a picture of the room before we moved in.
I remember this day actually because we were sanding the floors and I was cleaning the bathroom. I should have had industrial size bleach, ewww.
Although what do you think of my gold faucet?! And shell sink?!
Part of my makeover was to paint the vanity with Annie Sloan chalk paint. In graphite specifically, which is a dark charcoal grey. This was the first item I painted with chalk paint, so I was curious to see how it would come out.
This is the only good close up I have of the vanity. It was when we discovered the secret drawer in the bottom of the vanity. Bonus extra storage.
After taping off the floor, and assembling my supplies, I got to work. This was at about 9:00pm one night. That’s what happens when I do surprise makeovers.
This was after one coat. Sorry this picture is blurry. I watered down the chalk paint just a little since I like the way it goes on that way better.
This chalk paint performs miracles. It goes on so easily and covered so well.
After two coats of paint and two coats of polycyclic (I used the water based kind), I had a completely new vanity.
I did this while I was ripping up the old linoleum floor, these after photos are from when I finished that project. We subsequently covered that amazing hex tile with sheet vinyl. It wasn’t an easy decision, but the best one since the original hex tile floor was very damaged, cracked and dirty. See how to install sheet vinyl here.
I sprayed the hardware in satin nickel, they also look brand new. I like how you can also see the wood grain shape under the paint.
After I painted this I stood back and thought that the room would look 1,000 times better with a new floor and a new vanity top. So you can guess what’s up next on the bathroom makeover to do list – new vanity top. We have to find a new one first, and get a new faucet.
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But I’m so pleased with the vanity. My husband came home and thought I replaced it. Ha! I wish. Maybe some day we’ll get a smaller one, I think this one is a little too big for the room but this is a budget makeover and we are also working on the basement bathroom.
An improvement? Definitely!
Have you used chalk paint, what about in a bathroom?
Here is the latest on the Bathroom Mini Makeover
- Paint and seal the vanity
- Spray paint the mirror and sconces
- Prime and paint the window frame
- Make a roman shade for the window
- Get some kind of covering for the window glass
- Put up a shelf and some art on the walls
- Re-do the towel hooks
- Get a new rug
- Finish cleaning off the floor adhesive
- Prime and paint the ceiling
- Replace the vanity top
- Select and get a new faucet for the vanity
See how we replaced this vanity several months later HERE and our total small master bathroom makeover HERE.
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