For being such a small room, the bathroom actually gave me a pile of trouble. Started by PAINTING THE CEILINGS WHITE (once again, poopy taupe is a terrible color, especially for very tiny rooms).  The 2 bathrooms in the old house were dark brown with cobalt blue accents and pale blue with lime green accents. So to save money on towels and accessories,  I decided that the walls should be pale blue but with the primary color should be the cobalt and I could throw in the lime for extra splashes of color.  All fine and good. Except the paint color I chose was more of a baby boy’s room blue and looked bad. I didn’t want to buy another gallon of paint so I just mixed some ceiling white into the current blue and gave it 2 more coats. Actually turned out looking ok.

No storage at all except for a narrow ledge and a medicine cabinets

Paint done, I needed to do something about storage — there was officially none except for a small medicine cabinet and very narrow shelf. And nowhere to hang a toilet paper holder. I found one of those standalone jobs easily enough but finding any sort of shelving in brushed nickel was ridiculous! Once again, if I know what I want, no one has it. Finally found the shelf at Bed, Bath and Beyond in Vancouver and the narrow rack at Home Goods out by the airport, but it took several weeks for trolling around and getting very frustrated. Finished it all up with metal wall candle holder I stole from my mom when I moved to Vancouver 10 years ago, some plants and all of the extra accent towels. In the end, I think it looks good and it is proving to be very functional.

Finding both the rack on the counter and the shelf were a big adventure — once again, if I want it, it must be completely unreasonable

The bathroom after paint (pale blue) and decorated.