Lily's Duckies--Here They Come: A Bathroom Makeover

We love our townhouse, and, when we found it over two years ago, we were delighted to realize that so many of the rooms were already move-in ready for us. For example, we loved the bright yellow walls and adorable drawer pulls (they are little pieces of silverware!) in the kitchen, the red accent wall surrounding the fireplace in our living room, the finished basement complete with a chair rail, and the (laminate-but-it's-better-than-wall-to-wall-carpeting) hardwood floors throughout. In fact, the only things we really didn't love were the paint colors in the master and guest bedrooms and the state of the three and a half baths.

Two years later, we've Jeff has painted the master bedroom, and you know all about the guest bedroom that turned into Lily's nursery. But the bathrooms have fallen by the wayside, in spite of our best intentions. The same sky blue is in our master bath, the heinously ugly gardening wallpaper is still peeling off the basement bath walls, and the half bath on the main level lacks any kind of beautiful pedestal sink or eye-catching wall color that we've been drooling over online. However, Lily's arrival gave us the perfect reason to focus on the upstairs guest bath!

With basic white walls when we moved in, the bathroom worked fine with the pre-existing bath set we had. However, the French bistro / wine theme didn't seem so appropriate for a newborn, so we set to work.

The process began months ago, right around Christmas, when Jeff finally removed the 1980s-esque make-up lighting fixture (that still graces our bathroom) and got creative in replacing it with a new one we liked much better.

Now that we'd established a brushed bronze for the fixtures, we set to work on the faucet. The original one was just a silver basic one...

Which Jeff worked hard to replace...

With a pretty brushed bronze one that looks like an old well pump!

Inspiring the rest of the bathroom makeover was an adorable Pottery Barn set of towels, shower curtain, wastebasket, and tissue holder, kindly given to us by friends at church who were done using it for their daughters.

Because I knew Lily's bath supplies would require extra storage, I found a white cabinet on Amazon, then painted matching ducks on it.

But, before we could continue the project by choosing a new paint color for the walls, someone decided to make an early arrival into the world! As a result, it was nearly a month later when Jeff finally stayed up until 1am one morning, painting the "accent wall" a crisp Mediterranean blue.

After that, all that was left was the finishing touches, completed during Lily's afternoon nap earlier this week!

It was months in the making, but that's pretty perfect for our daughter who was years in the making, right?

Up next: the basement bathroom of topiary terror...