Our half bath...

This is the first project we tackled. I had come up with this idea before we knew we got the house. I saw the bathroom during our first viewing of the house. When I can not sleep I redecorate or in this case decorate rooms in my mind and it helps me to fall asleep.

Here is the bathroom before we did our handy work.

I first painted the whole room a light grey.

Next I taped some vertical lines, about counter top height down to the baseboards. I highly recommend doing this with a level and some really good tape. We have very textured walls and the paint came through the tape we had.

Then I painted the darker grey in the stripes. Sorry I did not take a lot of pictures of the process.

Next we made some fun trips to Home Depot for a chair rail and molding for around the mirror. Then my loving husband made some more fun trips to my parents house. As we bought the chair rail in one piece and the molding needed to be cut to fit the mirror.

This is the finished project...

Here is the molding around the mirror and a close up of the molding and chair rail.

And last a picture of the blue, fluffy rug my friend Jill helped me pick out. I love this bath room, it turned out good for two amateurs. My husband did a wonderful job putting up the chair rail and molding. We learned what tools and material to use for our next project.