We are officially one week away from my farmhouse bathroom reveal. If you missed my first post, I’m participating in a challenge with fellow bloggers this month, hosted by Erin of Lemons, Lavender & Laundry. The challenge is to completely makeover a room for only $100.

I can’t wait to share my final bathroom reveal with you all next week. I’ll also be giving you a detailed breakdown on how much $$ I spent on each item. Here are some projects I have been working on the last few weeks for my bathroom makeover:

Flooring:

Everything about my previous flooring was just terrible from the color, to the pattern, and everything in between! My first step to changing my floor was to figuring out how to do it on the cheap. I researched a lot of ways to update my linoleum flooring and came across several low cost options like: painting the floor, glueing pennies to the floor, etc. Ultimately, I went the route of peel and stick vinyl tile. I was able to find a pattern I really loved for the farmhouse bathroom style I’m going for. Check out that before and after pic below! Just wait until you see the final end result next week!

Decor:

I’ve been known to spend way too much money on decor, like that one time I spent $75 on a dinky cotton wreath (sorry husband!). I knew if I wanted to stay within my $100 budget for this challenge – then, I’d have to really get creative and look hard for good deals. For this challenge, I definitely wanted to change my bright silver towel ring, toilet paper holder, and towel rack in my bathroom. I went to my local thrift store and found a hook ($1) attached to wood that I envisioned as being the perfect hand towel holder to replace my towel ring. The next day, I found a 3 pack of hooks from Burlington ($6.99) that were close to a perfect match to my thrift store hook! I didn’t love the color of the wood so, I was able to use some black and brown acrylic paint to update all 4 of the board/hooks. For my toilet paper holder, I bought some Krylon spray paint in the color metallic dark copper and spray painted it! No more bright cheap silver in my bathroom! Woo hoo!

here is what the boards looked like before I painted them.

I unscrewed the hooks and then I mixed a black and a brown acrylic paint together + brushed it on.

next, I took a paper towel and wiped off all of the excess paint.


when the paint dried, I used a white paint pen and a gold paint pen to add dimension.

I sanded random areas on the board, screwed back on the hooks, and this is the final result!

  • this spray paint was amazing! there was no prep work required before spraying.
  • after the spray paint dried, I used the gold paint pen again to give it a distressed look

The last decor item I’m going to share today is from the… Dollar Store! I bought the glass and rope for a whopping $2. I hot glued the rope onto the glass and then filled it with q-tips. It will be a perfect item to put on one of my shelves above the toilet!

Stay tuned next week for my final reveal — subscribe to my blog to be the first to see it! Before you go, check out some of my fellow bloggers progress below on this $100 room challenge!

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