My Parent’s Pink Bathroom Renovation

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Have you ever seen a “Pink Bathroom”? That is what our family called our hall bathroom. You will see why we called it that below.

I also came from a family with 12 children. I never thought I would have the same. My husband and I did want a large family, and we were willing to accept whatever God would bless us with. We are very blessed to have twelve beautiful children and couldn’t imagine it any other way.

My parents had a house built, and moved in to it, in 1964. We had 3 bathrooms; one we called the yellow bathroom, one we called the pink bathroom and one we called the blue bathroom. (Could you imagine actually picking out these colors for the fixtures? My Mom did!) Well, they have been these colors for all those years. Until, last year while my husband was out of work, we did some updating,  remodeling, and renovations, at my parents house.  You could see the kitchen here, the family room here (the removing of paneling), how we removed wall paper here, and the bedroom here. Eventually, I will show you all the rooms we have done. My Mom is sooo happy with all the changes.

My dad was not very handy and to him, as long as something worked there was no reason to replace it. One of the reasons they agreed to have some things done to their house was the fact that it has been getting hard for my Mom to get around, and they were thinking if they had to move to a ranch there were definitely things that needed to be done to their house, to be able to sell it. 

This bathroom was one of the rooms we felt was very important to renovate for them.

This picture is one of the after pictures of their hall bath (It will always be the pink bathroom to me.)
This is the bathroom before we renovated it. Note, not only the walls were pink, but the sink, toilet, and even the tub was pink.

 

 

We were able to find cabinets and a vanity top at a garage sale. How great is that? We had to remove all the drywall around the tub…

and replaced it with a cement board. (I forgot what brand we used.) We decided to use a spray epoxy paint that is designed to be used on tubs. I got the lucky job. Don’t I look great? 

This is after the first coat.

The second coat really evens it out.

  Here I am tiling the floor. Hubby was doing all the cuts.

Here shows the floor done and the new toilet we installed.

One angle of the finished, tiled, tub surround. We tiled all the way to the ceiling.

 

Another angle of the tub with the all new shower fixtures.

Here you could see the freshly painted tub with the new tile on the wall (12”) and the floor (18”). This is another before picture. 

Here is an after picture. We also painted the medicine cabinet and framed the mirror.

Another angle, before! 

After!Do you think the changes make a big improvement?

Do you know someone who should change the color of their bathroom?

My Grandmother had a purple bathroom!!!

Parents of a Dozen

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