Master Bath Reveal - Before/After

Today I am spotlighting a fabulous new-ish blog that has a fresh new look and ideas that I know you will all love! Here is a little bit about Ian and Melissa over at Living Beautifully.

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We're Melissa and Ian and this is our blog.

We live in Canada with our adorable Goldendoodle Clover.

We started this blog in April of 2011: 5 months after we moved into our first real home together. The house we chose has become an endless project of updating, renovating, fixing and decorating and we love every minute of it.

This blog is our way to document and share this experience and inspire other young couples to do the same. You can have a fabulous house even on a budget. We hope our endless projects, DIY's, upcycled pieces, and knack for deal finding will inspire you!

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We actually finished the construction of this bathroom back in early September, but the room wasn't finished just yet. We wanted to completely finish it before we blogged about it...however we could barely afford to buy a toilet paper holder to put in there. Reno's are expensive people! So we waited and waited until we could afford to buy a few things...its still not completely finished, but we figured you might completely forget we had even done this, if we didn't blog about it soon!

Lets start at the beginning. Here is what we had to work with:

Ok where to begin. Pink floors. Sigh. We really had no way of working with these- we knew they had to go.

Secondly the vanity was about as tall as my lower thighs. If I was 4 feet this would not have been a problem. However for someone 5ft8, I was barely able to wash my face without sitting on the floor.

I don't know about you, but "beachy" mixed with "roman sconces" does NOT mix. LOVE the beach. Not such a fan of the mideaval flare....

Colours. Where to begin. This bathroom had red, orange, blue, pink grey and gold...and probably other colours mixed in there too somewhere. I am not a 'fall' colour person. Our ENTIRE house was fall colours when we moved in. Slowly...slowly we are changing that, but this bathroom looked a bit like a rainbow exploded in it...we dont do rainbow guts.

In all reality there were no words. We just knew we wanted to change the ENTIRE thing. So now that Ive told you all the things we hated about this bathroom, lets focus on the positives shall we?! The size of the room was great, so we had a lot of space to work with. Great light comes into this room, so that was another positive and we had space to play with- nothing was stopping us from changing the layout around...except cost that is!

I had been saving up tons of ideas and we pretty much knew what we wanted. A 'Spa' feel, light, bright colours, and a clean look. I love when things look clean. You know, like when you walk into a store and eveything is all neat, organized and bright looking? It just LOOKS clean. I love that. So thats what we were going for and I think we achieved that :)

Sooooo...here it is friends - our pride and joy!

Here's the before and after of our tub:

The shower:

The vanity:

 Toilet:

 and other details:

I will be doing a bunch of separate posts to talk about how we did some of the projects in this bathroom, including the shower tile pattern, paneling on the walls, how we designed the space, how we managed to do all of this on a tight budget, etc, so now that you've seen the reveal, expect a bunch more posts on this bathroom to come!

We think it turned out pretty darn good ;)

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So, whose jaw dropped to the ground like mine did when you saw this reveal? Everyone? Ya! Isn't it just amazing!?! Head on over to Living Beautifully for some more awesomeness!

Don't forget about the super cool giveaway going on right now! There is still tons of time to enter to receive your shop credit to Johnny in a Dress!

I hope you're having an amazing weekend!