Painting Our Old Medicine Cabinet

If you live in an older home you probably have an old medicine cabinet somewhere in your house.  We had two - (now down to one after replacing the other with a pretty mirror).  So, I've already updated the outside of our old bathroom cabinet using washers and spray paint and I finally got around to freshening up the inside.  It was much needed as there was a little rust going on and just overall blah-ness.  It just took a little time, some paint and fabric.

Here's the before cabinet - yucky I know.  And, I have never really taken any time to organize it so things would just pile up in there.  It was easy to remove the cabinet from the wall - I did it by myself just by unscrewing it.

Once I had it out, I took it outside and taped off the part I wanted to paint.  I decided to paint the door with chalkboard paint and paint the inside just a glossy teal - both which I already owned so I didn't have to buy anything new.  After the chalkboard paint dried, I taped off the next section and spray painted it.  Remember to just use nice light even coats.  I used two coats on both sections.

Next I re-installed the cabinet and decided to use fabric to cover the little shelves.  I grabbed some leftover shower curtain fabric from our ottoman project and cut it to size.  I used a little hot glue to hold it down on the shelves as I covered it and then covered the fabric a with clear cabinet liner to make it durable and wipeable.  Just fabric would get ruined quickly.

After that I just needed to add some little bins for organizing.  I think I might go back and label the bins to just help with keeping it organized.  So far its working just fine - actually much, much better than before.

I love the addition of the chalkboard door for notes - I mean come on, I will paint anything with chalkboard paint.  So here's the before and after - so much better right?  And I just used things I already owned.

You really don't have to spend a ton of money to make some fun updates to your home.  I love it when I can do something for nothing.  

Thanks so much for joining me today!  Anybody else making some no-cost updates to their home?  Share with me!

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Bathroom Reveal

After lots of time and little money we are finally ready to show you some in-progress bathroom pics.  I say in progress because we still have a few things we would eventually like to do - like a new tile floor and a new vanity.  But, since both are currently not glaring eye sores we are waiting while we work on other more important house projects.  Until then, we are totally loving our updated and serene bathroom space.

Here's a shot before we moved in.

And shortly after, you can see a lot had changed.

And now-

Oh, and in case you were wondering whatever happened to our towel curtain...

It's much better now.  I luckily already had this curtain so no money was needed to solve this issue.  I really like that we used a curtain that gave us plenty of natural light but still the privacy we needed.

Some of the details...

Before and After:

 

So here's a breakdown of what we have done so far-

- Paint - Olympic No VOC in Misty Lake $25

- New shower head (Moen, Lowes) $30

- New Shower Rod, Curtain & Rings (Homegoods) $25

- New Towel Bar (Homegoods) $7.99

- New Hand Towel Bar (Homegoods) $5.99

- New Bathroom Light (Lights Unlimited) - on clearance $10

- New Bathroom Mirror - already had

- New Window Curtain - already had

- New faucet (Delta, Lowes) - on sale $42

- New Rug $20

- Replaced shower hook (Ikea) - $2

- Replaced cabinet knobs - already had

Other little projects:

-Removed toothbrush holder on wall

-Removed toilet paper ring on cabinet 

- Added a shelf for towel storage

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Grand Total - $168

We have really totally changed and updated this bathroom for less than $200, we are pumped.

PS -If you are interested in any of our bathroom projects you can find them here, here, here, here, here and here.

Have a wonderful week!