The Revenge of the Evil Bathroom!

At first glance our bathroom looked like a hole in the wall:

It was dark, dated, and involved a lot of brown. Oh and you definitely couldn't ignore the Marlboro yellow that had taken to the pull down shade, ceiling, and walls. It was a disaster and let's just say that we wanted it gone ASAP!!

So when we left the bathroom last (which makes it sound like an evil villain), it was contemplating its revenge on us. Our original plans were to spruce it up for the time being, but alas, it attacked. The end result was this:

Bathroom: 0; Wife and Carpenter: 1 

We ended up completely gutting the bathroom that had seen better days. Unfortunately, while Jonathan was pulling off the sink, he realized that the wall was collapsing behind it. A bit more on that here. And that is why we gutted the darn thing. We weren't going to take its threat of overtaking us any more! And again, the above picture is the end result.

I can't say I was horribly disappointed with the idea of a brand new bathroom. Our bank account was surely depressed though, we still don't think she (she?) has recovered. But we have been comforting her and coddling her hoping that she will forgive us....echm...moving on!

ANYWAYS, you know I love a good excuse to do some design magic, so I began to brainstorm. I began pinning bathrooms that I liked on Pinterest and my crafty side began to form an idea of what I wanted our new bathroom to look like. The goal was to make it as inexpensive, practical, and beautiful as possible. Here were some of my inspiration bathrooms:

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I loved the combination of gray, white, and accents of yellow. This definitely seems to be a color trend lately, but I think it's still pretty safe. My plan is to make all of the accents of yellow easily removable. That way, if I get tired of the combination, I have a neutral background that I can use with a wealth of different colors! 

I looked at a cornucopia (how's that for thesaurus use?) of color combinations, but I just kept coming back to gray and yellow.  Plus, to make the deal even sweeter, I already had a few things I could use for yellow accents! More on that to come :)

So here is my design board:

This is the starting point. The walls will become a dark, elegant shade of gray. All of the white in the bathroom will balance the dark color nicely. We have already purchased the wainscoting and floor tile. Jonathan will be building a custom linen cabinet and it will look somewhat like the one above but with one door. The cute little handle will be used on the cabinet. Then, we also plan on putting two open shelves above it for some open decorating space. 

As for the accents of yellow, I have a few tricks up my sleeve. I plan on DIYing the cute little print (but if someone is interested in paying for it, you can find it here). The towels and the shower curtain may take awhile. I am not the type to go and buy towels just because my old ones don't match the colors in our new bathroom and same goes for the shower curtain. Though, I do have a tentative plan of revamping our white shower curtain to look something like the one above. Finally, I have some yellow baskets that will look great on the open shelving and I am thinking of taking some yellow spray paint to a few accessories that I own. Sherry does this all the time:

We were given a claw foot tub (thank you Isaac and Mary!) and we purchased a vintage sink at an area reuse center. Both of which will end up looking something like the picture below, but in yellow of course. 

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Overall, I think our bathroom is going to be very cheery! I can't wait to get started! Now, its on to tackle the cast iron tub and sink. This should be interesting...I am determined to win!