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Low-Cost Main Bathroom Update

Last Modified: April 2, 2023 Sabrina Quairoli This blog uses cookies. It also has affiliate links. We earn sponsored content income.

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We have one main bathroom everyone uses in our home. While it is a bigger bathroom, it gets a lot of wear. We have a half bath which we revamped recently (see post here). We gutted the bathroom in 2007-2008 with new faucets, a vented door to separate the spaces, new mirrors and lights, removed the floor, a new porcelain tub, and tile everywhere. It has been many years, and now it is time to update our bathroom for a fresh clean look. We still loved our cabinets, so we did some minimal cost updating. Read on to find out how we transformed our main bathroom with minimal cost for maximum effect!

Over the years, we added a door so the shower and toilet are separated from the sink and my vanity.

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  • Before Main Bathroom Update:
  • Tools used for this main bathroom transformation:
  • How we transformed this main bathroom?
  • Bathroom Transformation Video
  • How much did this project cost, and how long did it take?
  • The finished bathroom pictures:

Before Main Bathroom Update:

Before Sink Area
Sink Area - BEFORE
before upper cabinet
Before upper cabinet

Now in 2021, we decided it was time for another update. The cabinet was getting shabby, and the walls needed painting.

Tools used for this main bathroom transformation:

Paint For the Walls: Wedding Band Magnolia paint 1 gallon and 1 quart in satin
Paint For the furniture: Shiplap Magnolia paint 2 quarts in satin
Mini wax Polycrylic 1 quart matte finish
Paintbrushes various sizes
Paint rollers and pan
Krud Kutter Prepaint cleaner spray
3- new vanity mirrors from Home Depot - Home Decorators Collection 20 ⅛ in. W X 26 in. H Fog Free Framed Recessed or Surface-Mount Mirror Bathroom Medicine Cabinet in Brushed Nickel.

painting supplies used for furniture
Painting supplies used for furniture

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How we transformed this main bathroom?

I painted wall mounted cabinet next to the tub above the toilet.

I took off the cabinet and painted it. It took some time because I needed to clean the cabinet; I removed the doors to make it easier to paint.

upper cabinet 1st coat painted
The upper cabinets 1st coat was painted.

The shelf looked shabby, so I covered it with a decorative liner. I used it in other cabinets and vanity to make them look uniform and cohesive with one another.

liner covering the shabby shelves
Liner covering the shabby shelves.

While I was painting the wall-mounted cabinet downstairs, my husband painted the tub and toilet area.

First, he removed the blinds and ivy we had hanging. He had to paint around the tiles throughout the room. It was a small space, so I let him do it himself. He did a great job.

I painted a double sink cabinet.

I removed the doors and brought them to another room to paint them on a flat surface. Because I was going lighter in color, it took me about 2-3 coats on each door, with plenty of drying time in between.

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I did not want to remove the cabinet from the bathroom, so I painted it in its spot. I taped up the floor and the top sink, so I wouldn’t accidentally paint those items. And I went to town and painted the cabinet. I did two coats on the cabinet.

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painted first coat of sink cabinet
I painted the first coat of the sink cabinet.

We removed mirrors and trashed them.

They were larger and got wet often. So, it was time for them to go.

While I painted the vanity and the cabinets, my husband painted the variety and sink walls.

He washed the walls and then cut in and painted this bathroom area. We found that using the prewash to clean the walls helped remove dust and grime so the paint would adhere better.

I painted my vanity and covered the front of the doors with self-stick decorative paper.

The drawers were covered with the same liner as the inside of the cabinet above.

Painted the vanity white
We painted the vanity white.

After the walls were dried, we worked on the other areas.

The wall where I would hang my vanity mirror did not have a stud in the middle, so to help support the heavier mirror; we added three horizontal 1 x 2” wood painted in white. Then we screwed into the wood when we added the vanity. We patched up the screw with caulk and then repainted them while on the wall.

Installed wood on wall to support mirror
Installed wood on the wall to support the mirror.

I purchased new bins under the sink and lined the cabinet and drawer insides with the same self-stick liner paper as the front of the vanity doors.

lined the sink inside
We lined the sink inside.
painted 1st coat and lined drawers
1 painted 1st coat and lined drawers.

Then, we added the cabinet doors to the sink cabinet and the cabinet above the toilet. We returned the finished vanity to its home.

It made the sink cabinet look finished finally. I love the way the cabinet looked with the doors.

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Then, we replaced the old mirror cabinets with new ones.

My husband is finding the stud so we can hang the mirror from a stud on the wall instead of using anchors.

Installing mirror
Installing mirror on the wall.

We did not replace the light fixtures because they matched perfectly fine. I found that since we bought a little smaller mirror cabinets, they actually fit better on the wall and allowed more light to fall on the sink.

I then replaced the blinds top down and bottom up since both cracked when we pulled them down.

They were expensive, but they lasted a long time, so we just replaced them. I got them from JCPenny. They were Levolor LEVOLOR Custom Cordless Top Down Bottom Up Room Darkening Cellular Shade in snow. They worked fine for this space.

Bathroom Transformation Video

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How much did this project cost, and how long did it take?

The cost for the paint and mirrors was about $567. Since we had broken the cellular blinds when taking them down, we had an unforeseen cost of an additional $344.00. So, all of the items we bought totaled $911. We had the paint supplies.

And the project took a little time because of the drying of the paint and room. It took us about a week to do this entire transformation.

The finished bathroom pictures:

Here’s the finished low-cost main bathroom update. What do you think? I shared some before, and after photos below that look amazing.

Sink area bathroom after picture
Sink area bathroom after picture
Low Cost Main Bathroom Update
Low Cost Main Bathroom Update
Low Cost Main Bathroom Update before and after
Low-Cost Main Bathroom Update before and after

I love it! It is like we got a brand-new remodeled bathroom. I am happy with it so far. It has been about six months since we did this remodel, and the painted furniture and cabinets are holding up well.

Now it is your turn! Would you try this makeover? What would you do to your bathroom to improve it? Please leave a comment below. I would love to hear from you.

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