Coastal Kids Bathroom
A happy Thursday to you good people. I took a week, or two, away from One Room Challenge post because thanks to a delayed start, we have time. As a reminder, we’ve decided to participate as guest in the Spring One Room Challenge to renovate our coastal kids bathroom. The One Room Challenge is a biannual forum -April and October- for participants to have a fun and supportive way to share their room transformations over a six week period.
Because of COVID-19, the official start of One Room Challenge has been pushed back but I am happy to report, we did finish our space (styling and everything) in the six week timeframe and now I am just happy to share. We are renovating our upstairs bathroom which will serve as our master for now but in the future, may become a kids bathroom as our family grows and we move to the true master or as we sell our house. We are going for a coastal kids bathroom that will serve for adults for now.
Check out the rest of the weeks in my post:
Week 1 // / Week 2 // Week 3 // Week 4 // Week 5 // Week 6
Demolition of Coastal Kids Bathroom
It’s demo week in the Prepford House for our coastal kids bathroom. The old heavy vanity is out and the sheet rock has been pulled away from the wall to give the plumber access to the pipes. The wall has been marked for where the we will put a medicine cabinet. Because we’ve removed the sink, we must have storage for day to day necessities so a medicine cabinet feels right.
The bath fitter and tub has been removed. Woot woot. Everybody raise the roof. This room is officially stripped down to the studs and ready for our good friends the plumbers to come and install the new tub and for the builder to install the sheet rock.
That little box in the shower area is to allow for a niche. The little set of cords that are balled up on the top is the outlet that use to run from the ceiling to the floor. As you can see, the way it’s currently positioned won’t work. It will be no problem for the electrician to work around it.
Procurement of Supplies
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t devote a post to just getting things but Lord almighty did I have a time acquiring items for this room even before COVID-19. If you remember from my week one post about design, quite a few things in this bathroom are either custom or hard to get a hold of. Sometimes when I am sourcing things for a home renovation project, I consider going to design school part time so I can officially join trade and have less excruciating pain when searching for the objects of my hearts’ desire.
Sink
I have already talked about this one until I was blue in the face but humor me here. I have been in love with the trough sink and wanted one since we bought our house three years ago. Because the house has a small foot print and very little floor space, I want to maximize on using the walls. That makes the trough sink perfect since it takes up no floor like our massive niche vanity.
I’ve been looking for a vintage trough sink or the Kohler Brockway sink on Craiglist and Facebook marketplace for months. Lo and behold I finally found one for half the price; a low, low $700. Except it was located in Charleston, SC, four hours away. And we were out of town on business. But hubby’s sister came to the rescue and drove to get it for us.
Lights
I wanted vintage set of nautical lights. Our house has a coastal, cottage feel (in spite of us being inland) and vintage sconces would be perfect. During our time in New England in October and February, we went antiquing but none of the lights worked. Either they were too big, not functional, the wrong finish or way too expensive. The suggestion actually came from an Instagram follower to buy these from Nautical Antiques & Tropic Decor. a shop in Galveston, Tx that specializes in just that, nautical antiques. I reached out to them and it was such a smooth and fast transaction. The lights were affordable and arrived quickly. Can’t say enough good things about them.
Sink Fixtures
I love the fixtures that pair with the Kohler faucets but unfortunately they don’t come in brass. I already made up my mind that brass was the answer. So I purchased the fixtures on Amazon and sent them off to a brass plating company to strip the chrome finish down to the natural brass metal. I had a terrible experience with the folks that we sent them to when they double charged me for the work. Gaaaah! But alas the finish is so gorgeous I didn’t lose my religion cursing at them.
Tile
I loved these tiles from the moment I saw them on Instagram three years ago. I’ve had them saved since then and reached out to the distributor who posted them. They’re a smaller business and they were able to track down the Porto Hex 25 by Codicer for me. Many misunderstands and round and round with them and a month later, my tile showed up at my door step. I’ve never been so relieved to see a shipment since this tile is paramount to the aesthetic in my coastal kids bathroom.
Towels
Completely less dramatic than the other categories but we are going to partner again with our friends over at Weezie towels to come up with an incredible and luxurious bath towel for this room. We partnered with them for our previous bathroom renovation and loved them so much we wanted to do it again. Since they offer custom embroidery, I am snagging them in advance so they are here in time for completion. I can not wait to share our choice with you. #enjoythestay
I’ll make sure that I link the actual products in the final weeks post. No need in double linking myself to high heaven. See you next week.
XO PrepfordWife