Before and After: This Painted Bathroom Became Fantastically Unique After One Just Week
This bathroom definitely had a look going on: lots of wood, plenty of lace, and baroque lights hung from chain swags. But after one week of hard work, the room is now a pink powerhouse packed full of handmade touches.
Racheal Jackson—@banyanbridges on Instagram—did every single bit of this outstanding renovation, laying tile, installing a new sink and faucet, painting, creating a concrete countertop, and refacing the vanity doors and drawers. This is a massive project that Racheal managed to complete in just one week and the results are modern, fun, and fantastically unique.
Note that this long shot of the bathroom was taken before the room was quite completed—there are still a few accessories to add and leaning floor mirrors to remove—but it shows off the large-scale herringbone floor, the white shower curtain that has replaced the shower door, and what a powerful impact the painted wall has even from a distance.
The fantastic stool—currently being used as a plant stand—was a TJ Maxx find, and the white elongated subway floor tile is from Portland Direct Tile & Marble.
“The wall is just paint. The black is a Sharpie paint pen,” Racheal said. It appears that the deep rose rectangle was painted on the wall and a black triangle was outlined on top of it with a paint pen. The sketched lines were then drawn on, creating a wallpaper-like look on a budget. This bold design risk transformed two painted pink rectangles into a fabulous feature wall.
This bathroom does an impressive job unifying a wide variety of materials; that’s mostly thanks to Racheal’s killer style, but it’s also due to all the black accents: faucet, soap dispenser, mirror, and light. In a fun bit of symmetry, the ornate swag lights were replaced by a sleek, modern light with clean lines; the new pendant was found at Portland’s ReBuilding Center—a fantastic score. The vanity doors are birch veneer plywood and the leather pulls were made by Racheal. The striking countertop, which is perfect juxtaposed with the plywood, was created by applying feather-finish concrete.
The Eames Hang-It-All (or a good knockoff) brings a further playful punch of color to the bright room. The faucet is from Kingston Brass, the mirror is by Umbra available from Amazon, and Racheal notes that the medicine cabinet seen in the mirror is next on the to-do list.
Thank you, Racheal Jackson!