Mint and Coral Kid's Bathroom

I love the updates we've made upstairs to Hannah's bathroom.  This is our upstairs hall bathroom and will most likely be the bathroom for any future kiddos.  I wanted to be able to easily transition it to a gender neutral bathroom in the future if needed by adding navy towels and different artwork.  I love the coral and mint color combination.  It's definitely a popular color choice these days in a lot of designs.

A little reminder of the before in our upstairs bathroom:

And the after:

First up, we painted all the trim in this room Benjamin Moore Simply White.  With three doorways, this was a big job for such a little space.  Also, you can tell the doors are different colors than the trim.  Someday, I will invest in a decent paint sprayer, and I can paint all the interior doors to match our trim.  For the walls, I went with Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue.  This was the color I used down in our laundry room, and I was able to get the whole bathroom painted with what we had leftover in our can.

Trim and Paint Before:

Trim and Paint After:

Before we were able to paint the walls though, we had to take down the builder grade mirror.  Weston did great and got it off in one piece.  Then Weston and my Dad took down the big light bar, and they installed two lights over each of our new mirrors.  Unfortunately, this required a few cuts into our wall because the wiring was strung across the wall rather than up to the attic then over to the switch.  It really wasn't difficult to patch it, and I already had to do the patch for the original light in the center.  This is what it all looked like before the drywall repair.

After I screwed our drywall patches back into place, I used drywall tape around each edge.

Followed by mudding over the tape and drywall screws.

Then it was sanding and painting the whole bathroom, and you would never know we had all those holes in our wall.  

I love the schoolhouse style globes on the lights.  I think it's a perfect look for a youthful kid's bathroom.  The lights came from Lowe's online, and they weren't available in the store.  The mirrors are from Pottery Barn, and I think they are really nice, quality mirrors.  I definitely recommend them!

There isn't a wall large enough for a towel bar without looking silly.  So I added two towel hooks I picked up from Home Depot.  The light pink towels are from JCPenney, and the coral color towels are from Target.  If we ever have a little boy, I think navy blue towels could easily be added into this color combo.

I went with a neutral extra tall shower curtain from Bed Bath and Beyond.  I always recommend tall shower curtains because it makes your bathroom feel larger by raising the eye.  The shower hooks were from Target, and I love the little flowers on them.

I added towel rings next to each sink after the oversized towel bars were removed, and the prints are from Minted.com that I framed myself.

The two navy cloverleaf bath mats were from Pottery Barn Teen.  I really like them, but my only complaint is they are a couple inches smaller than what they advertise on the item description online.  They're still good sized, but I had measured for something a little larger.

I loved this print from Hobby Lobby.

And another favorite update to the bathroom would be our linen closet.  The first time we walked through the house, I knew I wanted to change the shelving in the attached linen closet.

Before of the linen closet:

It was a complete wasted of space in our triangular shaped closet.  The towels wouldn't even fit on those tiny shelves.  They were only around 10" deep.

So we took it down and added our braces, making sure to hit the studs.

Followed by adding our boards that we cut to the shape of our closet with a little geometry work.

We finished it off with a little trim, and I love that we've probably doubled our storage space in that closet.

After linen closet:

So that's how we updated our upstairs bathroom into something fun and pretty for our daughter.