A few years ago, we took a weekend to give this downstairs bathroom a tiny face lift. We framed the builder grade mirror, painted the cabinet and gave the walls a fresh coat of paint. I never liked this countertop, but I could live with it until we finished other stuff in the house.
Like a lot of projects I do, I saw this on Pinterest! I figured this would be a fast and easy project, just pop off the old counter, touch up the paint and spend a couple hours putting together the new countertop...NOPE!
- Pop off the old countertop
- Build new countertop, stain, add a billion coats of poly
- Buy a new sink because all the sinks toilets and tubs in this house are bone colored and I already changed out this toilet to white
- Apply knockdown plaster on the wall behind toilet where the counter was attached
- Realize that the color of the stain and the tile back splash I chose clashes with the cabinet and wall color
- Repaint walls and cabinet
- Touch up the molding paint
- Touch up black molding around mirror
- Notice with the new, lighter wall color, the ceiling isn't really white and now looks horrible and needs to be painted as well
- Install the countertop and tile back splash
- Even though the counter is exactly what I wanted, the new wall color I chose is way lighter than I thought it was and now I want to paint the walls again and maybe the cabinet too...
Home DIY is never as fast and simple as we think it will be. Oh well, what can you do?!
I don't have a detailed tutorial for this countertop, but you can pretty much see how it was done from the photos. Everyone might need a slightly different method depending on what you're replacing and your existing fixtures. After I stained, I applied several layers of polyurethane. The sink was attached and sealed in place with clear silicone caulk and I used the same caulk to seal the gaps between the three pieces of wood.
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