One Room Challenge Week 2 – Spring 2018: Teen Girl’s Bathroom

Hello,

(“Spring” in the title is really a misnomer as most of Ontario is being hit hard this weekend with an ice storm – in mid April! Drive safe everyone. )

So I’m a little (ok, a lot) late with my weekly One Room Challenge update. The main reason is because I jumped in this round really late, like the day before it started. Yikes! I really struggled with what to do. I’m tackling my daughter’s bathroom and you can see the Before’s in my Week 1 post here.

Remember last week when I said I wasn’t going to replace any of the tile or the tub? Well, I had a change of heart. I always tell clients why spend money on a beautiful new kitchen, for example, when you are going to keep the basic builder (usually ugly) tile. So, I needed to heed my own advice and spend money to do it right. So, I am replacing the floor and shower tile and the tub as well.

When designing a space you don’t want too many competing patterns so I always like to think about where should the pattern go. In this case, I am using this beautiful marble tile from Jeffrey Court on the floor (the basket weave shown below.) It’s a little bit different and very luxe. The white fish scale will go on the tub surround – again, a little different than subway tile, which don’t get me wrong I absolutely love and it was my initial thought. So, those are two beautiful patterns happening in the room already.

Now, the big question – statement wallpaper or statement shower curtain? That has been the most difficult decision because as you know I  love wallpaper but I have a lot already in the house and my client (my daughter) didn’t really care either way. I have come up with two design plans that are pretty similar except one has a custom shower curtain and the other has wallpaper.

Option 1: The one thing my daughter was sure of was she wanted a faint lavender on the walls so I chose the fabric below which has shades of lavender in it. I thought of doing shiplap on the vanity wall (rather than wallpaper) – but is that too over done and I wouldn’t want it on all walls just the back wall so that may look a little odd. Hopefully, the wall colour with the mirror, lighting, faucet and black gloss vanity will provide enough interest.

Option 2: I have loved this wallpaper for ages and it was recently released in this blush pink colour so I think it would look amazing on the vanity wall.  My daughter wanted a busy palm tree pattern but I think she will love that this is a little quieter and she won’t tire of it.

Both the counter images are from Caesarstone and I am undecided which to use so you will have to stay tuned for that as well as the other design choices.

Here are some inspiration photos that I absolutely love – with either statement wallpaper or statement shower curtain:

House & Home

House & Home

Shannon Eddings

I had to include my daughter’s bathroom from an ORC three years ago as it is another good example of how one wall of wallpaper can have a huge impact.

Stephani Buchman Photography

So which direction do you think I should go? I need to make a decision – like yesterday. 🙂

You can read the posts of the 20 featured bloggers here and the rest of the guest participants here. And as always, thank you for following along and leaving a comment.

Check out my former One Room Challenge Reveals here:

Prettying Up a Builder Kitchen (former home)  – Fall 2014

Teen Daughter’s Bathroom (former home) – Spring 2015

My Parisian Bedroom (former home) – Fall 2015

Teen Daughter’s Bedroom (former home) – Spring 2016

My Charming Kitchen – Fall 2016

My Functional and Pretty Office – Spring 2017

A Multi Purpose Basement – Fall 2017

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{Please feel free to email me at decorhappy@gmail.com if you are interested in a design consultation. I am not taking on any projects at the moment – two to three hour consultations only. So if you need a fresh pair of eyes and ideas for your space, or advice on a kitchen or bath reno, please reach out.}