Our bathroom has been made over before.  We’ve changed the floor tiles & the shower doors and Paul painted his little heart out on all the cabinets.  That was… 4 years ago?  I think.  Pre-child.  Since Stevie is the one who has reign over the guest bathroom now, I just wanted to update it again to make it a little more kid friendly.

Here is the before:

And the after:

Restoration Hardware Baby & Child was having a sale, so I got the stripey towels there.  All the plain towels were super cheap at Target.

Stevie loves fishies so I knew I had to put them in somewhere.  I borrowed the fish artwork idea from here.  I just used acrylic paint on a scrap piece of poster board I had lying around.  The frame is old too.

Michaels had some small canvases on sale.  So I picked those up and then used this for my inspiration.  I painted them first.  Then I found “nautical silhouettes” on Google, traced them onto poster board, cut them out, and mod-podged them to the canvas.  Fun little project for a Tuesday afternoon.

Update cost? Around $100.  Most beautiful bathroom in the world? Nah.  More kid appropriate? Yup.  He just doesn’t know it yet!

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OK, I just found some before-before pics of our bathroom.

That dark plywood, and the lightbox above the vanity?  There’s good 80’s and there’s bad 80’s.  Wait, is there good 80’s?  Well yeah, I can think of a couple things.  Anyway, this was bad 80’s.  At first glance, it doesn’t even look that horrible, but it was.  It was bad.  I almost forgot how bad.  Just trust me.