Quick Budget Bathroom Refresh | Apartment Therapy

That was the case with Nikki Sheriff‘s basement toilet. “We began out with type of a boring house with tan partitions and tile from after we constructed our dwelling in 2010,” she explains.

Nikki’s two daughters—one who’s little and one other who’s a youngster—share the house, so it was necessary that the brand new look labored for each of them.

“My husband is a contractor and gifted builder who could make or repair actually something, and I’m a lover of DIY, so [we] do a number of initiatives collectively,” Nikki says. So that they started working.

In actual fact, they created a room that now appears to be like virtually unrecognizable. However get this: The one modifications Nikki made to the big-ticket gadgets (bathroom, bathe, self-importance) had been so as to add swap out the bathe curtain and paint the self-importance knobs black. A brand new gentle fixture and mirror add a complete new degree of understated glamour. 

And let’s take a second to understand the brand new molding on the partitions painted in Sherwin-Williams’ Unfussy Beige (with some severely fairly pink undertones). “I made a decision so as to add the molding largely to interrupt up the clean wall,” says Nikki. “I needed a board and batten look, however the toilet is so small, I made a decision to do a skinny molding to make it somewhat extra delicate and fewer cumbersome.”

Right here’s the kicker: Nikki says the entire redo value lower than $200.

“We love how a lot brighter it feels,” Nikki says. “It’s girly however nonetheless pretty impartial.” Agreed!