"Master" bathroom.

I use the term "master" loosely, as this isn't really a master bathroom.  It's the bathroom that happens to be right next to our bedroom but is the main bathroom that everyone (guests and kids alike) uses.  We have one other shoebox bathroom, but it's upstairs and the kids aren't really old enough to use the bathroom on their own, so we've just made this one the family bathroom.

Our "master" bathroom looked like this upon moving in.

 

We didn't do much to it except to fancy it up with our own belongings.  The biggest "upgrade" we made was to replace the towel rod with a bigger one.  The one they put in was builder grade and tiny and wouldn't even fit two towels.

That's a terrible picture, I know.  I searched for probably an hour because I know I've taken many more pictures of my bathroom in its time than this, but with no luck.  If I wasn't so lazy tired, I would get off the couch and take some more, but I'm lazy tired.  So this is what you get.  It looks better than this in real life, so just pretend.

It's a small bathroom, so that's complaint number one.  It was also cheaply refinished, so that's complain number two.  I'll never really understand why they painted the walls gray and then chose tan tile for the shower.  Or why they chose this white/cream hideous linoleum to butt up against a white vanity, a white tub and a white toilet.  They put beadboard on the walls, but in the cheapest/rigged up way possible.  My hubby said it's not even real beadboard?  Is there a "faux" beadboard I don't know about? It's hard to explain without seeing it closely, but it looks pretty bad.  The seams are terribly noticeable, they used so much caulk (or some kind of filler, whatever you call it) all over that it's just gotten gross and dirty and almost off-white in spots and I can't clean it up anymore than it is.  Sadly, we are definitely going to have to rip the beadboard off and redo it at some point.

The first and biggest project we want to tackle (and have wanted to tackle since the day we moved in) is to tile the floor.  I've been drooling over wood floors in bathrooms on Pinterest, but I'm too scared to have wood in a bathroom, especially with little kids, so it'll never happen.

I've toyed with the idea of painting the cabinet black, though I think once we tile in here, I'll really like the crispness of the white so I'll probably leave it.  I think the only reason I don't like it right now is because it's a white vanity on a white floor.

I've got my eye on this faucet upgrade from Overstock, but it'll have to come out of my "blow money" (thanks Mr. Ramsey) because my hubby thinks things like that are silly.  I think they make huge differences on a minimal budget, so I'm all about them!

Next up, I want to replace our waffle weave shower curtain with one just like it, but an extra tall one that reaches from floor to ceiling.  I first saw this idea on Young House Love and fell in love with it!  What a great, dramatic effect again, on a small budget.

Source: Young House Love

Since we have a small bathroom and I discovered what tall mirrors can do to a small room when we moved into our house (the only reason we still have ugmo mirrored closet doors is because it makes our room feel so much bigger than it is!), I'm thinking of mounting a floor mirror on the back of our bathroom door, sort of like this (but picture on a door):

Source: House of Turquoise

See those gorgeous wood floors in the bathroom?  Wish I had the guts!

Once we get some tile on the floor in here, I think I'll go simple with white towels/white bath mat.  I am loving that simplicity these days in bathrooms.

And for the big decision: the PAINT!

I don't really know yet.  I'd leave it gray except I've never loved the way the gray clashes with the tiles in our shower.  Can we get away with tiling our floor something completely different and not even in the same category as the tile in our shower?  I'm pretty sure the answer is no because the tan tile is totally visible outside of the shower curtain. So I think we'll have to go with a tan tile to complement the tile in the shower and then I'll probably switch our paint color to something more along these lines:

Source: Better Homes & Garden  

Then of course we'll accessorize appropriately.  :)