Bathroom Change

This is our upstairs hall bathroom, the one the boys use.  I still had a green shower curtain that we got for our wedding.  And a white bath mat.  First of all, why do I have a white bathmat in a boys bathroom?  In these pictures it is black and dirty from their shoes and feet.  I clean my bathmats pretty often but if I washed this one every time it got a little dirt on it, I would really have to wash it every single day.

I have been looking for a good boy-looking shower curtain that also wasn't babyish.  About a month ago I got the perfect one for my liking.  

The bathroom is too small to get any decent pictures of it.

Before (including the dirty bath mat, peed bedding and one of 2 stools in a teeny bathroom): 

After(cell phone pictures):

Ahhh, so much better and it feels so much cleaner and now only 1 stool.  I bought hand towels to match so I can make the hooded towels.  We'll see if that ever happens.  But besides that, I did this in a day.  I NEVER complete little projects that fast.  Obviously, it was all aesthetics, no paint or cabinet, counter, mirror change.    I did have to get most of the items at different stores.  It was quite the day of running around with Porter and Hudson.  Then when Carson got home from school he told me to change it back. Nice.

Updated items:

Shower curtain: West Elm (I really want this same bedding for my boys' rooms)

Shower curtain rod and new metal rings: Bed, Bath and Beyond and here

Bathmat: IKEA

New TALLER stool (now Hudson can wash his hands without climbing on the counter): IKEA

Plant and pot: IKEA and IKEA

Bath towels and hand towel: Target in Blue, Orange and Green (their favorite colors)

4 Sign Frames: IKEA

4 signs: Homemade (my mom's idea) and ordered prints from Costco, I tried to match the colors to the towels.

It is kind of funny how the boys have reacted to these signs.  None of them can read yet, so they keep asking me what they say.  We tell them those are their reminders to do those things.  I think they think they are chore charts.  And Hudson asked if "One of them says go potty, because he needs to go potty?"

AND Random sidenote:  I think bath towels have come along way, because these are the cheapest line of towels and they are very soft!  After the initial wash when I had to empty my lint trap 4 times in the course of the dry cycle, they are nice.  

Random sidenote #2:  We have had these gross rings in our toilets since we moved in.  I think from both dirty and hard water.  I FINALLY found a way to completely remove them -- a toilet pumice stone.  The sounds of scrubbing it is like fingernails on a chalkboard, but it was worth it!

This look longer to blog about than actually do.

The End