Before & After: Kelli?s Powder Room Gets a Deep Blue Facelift
I’m not sure how it happens, but it happens to many of us: we stop seeing a room’s glaring shortcomings and just get used to them. For my family’s downstairs powder room in Aliso Viejo, CA, this was a multifaceted issue. First of all, this room was always in flux, and not in a good […]
I’m not sure how it happens, but it happens to many of us: we stop seeing a room’s glaring shortcomings and just get used to them. For my family’s downstairs powder room in Aliso Viejo, CA, this was a multifaceted issue. First of all, this room was always in flux, and not in a good way. We’d hang art, take it down and give it to a more “deserving” or public space, leaving holes in the walls, which eventually became permanently bare. What’s more, a repiping project made this bathroom a construction zone, and after the job was done and with unmatched primer covering random parts of the room, we vowed to “repaint it some day.” Now if this sounds familiar to you, you know that didn’t happen right away. In fact, the bathroom sat in its “before” state for nearly a year. I cringed every time a friend or guest asked to use the restroom; I was just embarrassed of the space. No matter how hard I scrubbed and cleaned, the empty shell of a post-construction space still looked dingy and dreary. It was our least favorite room in the whole house. Luckily, my husband Jason’s work schedule opened up for Memo...
I’m not sure how it happens, but it happens to many of us: we stop seeing a room’s glaring shortcomings and just get used to them. For my family’s downstairs powder room in Aliso Viejo, CA, this was a multifaceted issue. First of all, this room was always in flux, and not in a good way. We’d hang art, take it down and give it to a more “deserving” or public space, leaving holes in the walls, which eventually became permanently bare. What’s more, a repiping project made this bathroom a construction zone, and after the job was done and with unmatched primer covering random parts of the room, we vowed to “repaint it some day.” Now if this sounds familiar to you, you know that didn’t happen right away. In fact, the bathroom sat in its “before” state for nearly a year. I cringed every time a friend or guest asked to use the restroom; I was just embarrassed of the space. No matter how hard I scrubbed and cleaned, the empty shell of a post-construction space still looked dingy and dreary. It was our least favorite room in the whole house. Luckily, my husband Jason’s work schedule opened up for Memo...
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