Kids Bathroom Reveal

I hope you have had a great holiday season! Our family spent 10 days traveling and once we returned home our son came down with a vicious virus that lasted 4-5 days.  Brutal way to start a new year!

However, now that things are settling down I am hoping to knock out a few projects that I have on my to-do list for 2013!

First up - I'm ready to show you our kids bathroom renovation.  While it only involved paint and trim, it created a pretty big change and I'm really happy with how it turned out.  Granted, I still need to get some new towels, replace the faucet & add some "decor" (which is pretty hard for a kids bathroom) it's a whole lot better than it started!

We painted the whole thing top to bottom.... and there is a LOT of cutting in going on in here.  The easiest and most dramatic part of the change was painting the cabinets.  For the prep work I used Krud Kutter to clean the surfaces.  I intended to get the Krud Kutter that is a cleaner AND deglosser...but I bought the wrong kind.  So, I went over everything with this liquid deglosser from Lowes.

 We set up our assembly line in the garage & I got to work priming everything.

I used a small foam roller & a paintbrush for this job.  The foam roller was perfect and left a great finish.  The brush came in handy really only for the crevices in the door insets.

Let's take a stroll down memory lane and see the before & afters!

So, so much better!

Details:
I ended up doing a coat of primer & two coats of color on the cabinets.  We used Sherwin Williams paint and had them color match to Valspar Mountain Smoke.

The walls are Olympic Gray Beige. The handles and hinges are all new and came from Home Depot.

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