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Home Whimsy Homes Before & After: Our Colorful Cabin Bathroom Makeover
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Before & After: Our Colorful Cabin Bathroom Makeover

  • Kara
  • May 30, 2023
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When I toured our Whimsy Homes cabin bathroom the first time, I saw past the leaky shower liner and odd yellow mirror. I saw so much potential to build a fun room that oozes joy.

Hey, bathrooms are the perfect place to go a little wild in my opinion. Here’s everything we did to our cabin bathroom makeover!! 

The main bathroom is the first room we’ve completed fully in this renovation (well, almost. I still need to swap out the toilet paper holder for a gold one but that’s in the mail right now!)

First, here’s all the good stuff we put into the room, and then below I’ll spill all the juicy gossip on the failed projects, why we did design choices and tips for renovating a bathroom yourself! 

Scandi Bold Wallpaper
Scandi Bold Wallpaper

Nothing like a big bold wallpaper for a bathroom. It's peel-and-stick for easy application.

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Mudd Concrete Sink
Mudd Concrete Sink

The coolest, most beautiful basin sink on the internet.

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Sun Shower Curtain
Sun Shower Curtain

I have one of these sun shower curtains in my apartment so of course I had to add one to the cabin! They're so fun.

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Flash Light Blue Tile
Flash Light Blue Tile

The beautiful blue tile in the downstairs bathroom. It's more blue irl!

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Blue & White Checkered Floors
Blue & White Checkered Floors

Easy to clean, slip resistant & high quality luxury vinyl tiles for bathrooms, kitchens, etc

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Brass Wall Mirror
Brass Wall Mirror

A huge brass mirror perfect for bathrooms.

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Tension Curtain Rod
Tension Curtain Rod

A timeless gold shower curtain rod for the downstairs bathroom.

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3 Light Sconce Brass
3 Light Sconce Brass

An affordable 3 light wall light with slight nordic vibes due to the triangle glass fixtures. In our bathrooms & kitchen.

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Plank Hardware Brass Towel Rail
Plank Hardware Brass Towel Rail

Plank Hardware's beautiful towel rack for both bathrooms. Matches our cabinet pulls!

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Get Naked Bath Mat
Get Naked Bath Mat

An internet classic bath mat for a reason - it's just so dang cute!

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Plank T-Bar Pull
Plank T-Bar Pull

Swapped the old silver handles on the bathroom cabinets for these gorg brass ones.

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Sproos Showerhead
Sproos Showerhead

Sproos makes fun, colorful showerheads that are super functional AND totally renter-friendly! We have this in the upstairs bathroom. Use code KARA10 for a discount.

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Butcher Block Countertop
Butcher Block Countertop

This is a super beautiful and affordable butcher block counter, perfect for bathrooms!

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Vessel Sink Faucet
Vessel Sink Faucet

An incredibly sleek and functional bathroom sink. Pairs well with a Mudd Concrete sink!

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Step One: Renovating The Bathtub 

We started this renovation back in February when our lovely contractor, Tom, started work on the bathtub. It came with an old liner that was dingy and the caulking lining it was melting. 

Yes – melting!! You could wipe it right off, which is not something I knew caulk could do. The showerhead was also pretty old and kinda gross, so the first thing we did was remodel the area. 

Let me tell you – finding affordable tile in a color that isn’t white or grey is really hard. Almost impossible. Our contractor had a surprise availability and we had about 1.5 weeks to source and deliver all the tile we needed for the project. 

Robin and I literally drove all around the foothills trying to find the right tile. We eventually found this Flash Light Blue Tile at a local store in Sonora, California that I’m pretty happy with.

Pro-tip: if I could go back in time I would have started looking for tile online the day we closed the house. Tile can take months to ship but I would have been ahead of it at least!

 

To help make sure the cabin design makes sense room to room, before we started renovating I made a cabin color palette to constantly reference. Since I’m anti-white paint (and this includes tile) I knew the color we had to use for the bathroom had to be one in the color palette. 

Since green and pink were already being used in the kitchen, I decided the bathroom should have a blue theme! 

And since our cabin is old and has an eclectic theme, I wanted to lean into the retro vibe a little bit. The tile unfortunately wasn’t built to be flooring tile (apparently there’s a difference??) but I lucked out extremely and found Harvey Maria, a brand that makes checkered luxury vinyl floor tiles that almost nearly matched the blue in the shower!! 

Step Two: Adding Flooring 

I had a LOT of confidence going into putting down the LVT and it absolutely humbled me. It’s a lot harder than it looks, mainly since the floor glue oozes out from under the tiles and gets really messy. It’s still somehow oozing out in the cracks and I feel like I’m constantly cleaning up the tiles right now until it fully sets and dries. 

BUT, it was a million times easier and cheaper than ripping out the old flooring and doing the whole grout thing. 

I just glued our checkered tiles right on top of the flooring and this process took a few days as I had to let some areas of the floor dry so later I could come and work on top of them. 

They are absolutely not perfect at all (hey, it was my first time using these!) but I’m really pleased with how they look. I think they match the blue shower tiles very well and add to that retro feeling we’re building in the cabin. 

Pro-tip: dry fit and cut all the LVT before you glue down to see where you may need to make design changes based on your room.

Step Three: Wallpaper Time!

The real gem of our renovation is our Scandi floral wallpaper. I hunted for AGES for the perfect wallpaper for this room and tested probably at least 20 samples. 

Our eclectic cabin theme has an undertone of Nordic, inspired by our time living in Copenhagen. When I saw that this floral wallpaper looked a lot like Scandi flower designs AND had mostly just the colors in our cabin palette I knew it would be perfect!

As I said before, I firmly believe bathrooms are the best place to go a little wild with patterns and color. Think about restaurant and bar bathrooms, ones that have bold wallpaper or paintings on the ceiling. Those spaces are always so memorable, so I wanted to create a memorable bathroom here. 

Full disclosure, we bought peel-and-stick wallpaper when I should have bought the pasted. I used Peel and Stick in my San Francisco apartment and I was terrified of using pasted wallpaper. It just sounded a lot harder!

And then we put pasted wallpaper in the kitchen and realized it’s 10000% easier than peel and stick. But you live and learn!

Anyways, the second we got this wallpaper up the whole vibe of the room changed in all the best ways. It’s also one of the top things people compliment when they visit the cabin!

Step Four: Installing A Beautiful Mudd Concrete Sink

The bathroom felt good, but I knew it could be better. Enter: Mudd Concrete sinks. They make simply the most beautiful basin sinks on the planet. 

The previous white sink was fineeee I guess, but it wasn’t giving me joy and wasn’t adding anything special to the room. So, I found this butcherblock counter on Home Depot for about $120 and our contractor was able to easily rip out the old sink, cut the block board to size and install our Mudd Sink in a day. 

Mudd Concrete sinks come in all sorts of colors – red, pink, green, but I chose a dark blue to vibe with the blue bathroom, but not be too matchy-matchy. It also looks fantastic with the orange hue of the wood (blue and orange are complementary colors after all!) 

I’ve never had a basin sink before but I love it. It’s way easier to keep clean than the old built-in sink and it looks wicked cool. 

Step Five: Adding Details

Home design is all in the details. The details will turn your home from good to fantastic and tie everything together. When all the big things like the sink and tile were installed, it was time to focus on bringing everything together. 

So, the silver light was swapped for a gold one. (In fact, the kitchen and upstairs bathroom all have this gold light to feel cohesive in the cabin!)

The silver cabinet handles were swapped for sleek gold pulls from Plank Hardware. They’re a rad company that specializes in damn beautiful cabinet hooks, pulls and rods at an affordable price. 

We put Plank Hardware in our kitchen and these exact T-Bar pulls are also going in our upstairs bathroom to help visually connect the rooms!

Then, a fun see-through Quiet Town Home shower curtain. I love these shower curtains since they add color to a space but also let in natural light. I use an orange one in my San Francisco studio apartment bathroom!! 

Then, a fun bath mat from Urban Outfitters, an oversized brass mirror so everyone can get ready at once, a gold door knob to match the metal theme, and a final Plank Hardware towel rod to complete the space. 

I still have to install that gold toilet paper holder but otherwise, she’s all done!! It now has such a different, wonderful, happy feeling compared to the before photos. 

If you want to fine more home decor inspo, follow the cabin’s Instagram account @whimsy_homes or TikTok @whimsyhomes

Kara

I'm the founder of Whimsy Soul (this blog you're reading!) I'm a type 3 enneagram cat lady who lives in San Francisco and loves to find everyday magic to share with others. You can probably find me hunting down hot springs with girlfriends, kayaking, cooking with my husband, petting strangers' dogs or watching like, all the things on Netflix. Follow me on Instagram for even more inspiration!

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