$42 Bathroom Makeover!

When I saw this on Pinterest I knew I had to have it in our half bath!

So, I searched high and low for the right font, perfect swirls and came up with this in the picture above. But before I could put it on the walls I wanted to "spruce" the whole bathroom up a little bit from this:

The walls were that boring builder-grade beige color. And the only decor I had in there was this one small picture on the wall.

I bought the picture at Kirkland's on clearance a long time ago and really like it so that kind of became my inspiration. So with the vision of my quote "Wash Your Hands {Mom Said SO}" on the wall and my picture in mind, I began with my paint color. I wanted a gold color to go with the golden tones in the picture and came up with Better Homes and Gardens' "Naples Yellow". Its a little more yellow and less the golden brown color I was going for, but its growing on me. I moved my zebra votive and black iron magazine holder from my living room and added a $5 basket I found at Garden Ridge to store the extra toilet paper in. I had a lotion bottle that I took the label off of and and made a vinyl label for it. I attached a ribbon to it and it turned out like this:

The lotion bottle, zebra votive and picture all sit on a black shelf I found pretty cheap at Michael's and now my half bath looks like this:

So much better than the boring-ness it was before. And all it cost me was $25 for a gallon of paint (I bought a whole gallon because I wanted to use this gold color in my dining room too), $12 for the black shelf and $5 for the basket! A total of $42!!