Guest Bathroom

We live in a two bathroom apartment. The master bathroom is mine and mine alone - okay, I begrudgingly share with Marty - and the hall bathroom belongs to the boys and our guests. I have always tried to keep it sort of neutral because it seems that every time I pick a shower curtain, picture or anything for the room, one boy or another thinks it is too girly. Fine. I got it. No girly bathrooms. The problem is, if they had it their way, it would look like a typical boy bathroom - towels everywhere, empty shampoo bottles on every available surface, a plain, boring, plastic shower curtain liner and that's about all. I finally got tired of the boring bathroom and have been on the lookout for ideas. In fact, I have been on the lookout for ideas for at least a year. Sigh...

For the last few weeks, I have really been thinking about biting the bullet and just doing it.

First, I found this picture on Pinterest.

 I loved them, and when I followed the link, I thought the whole room would be perfect for a masculine bathroom that isn't so masculine that you feel the need to grow chest hair just by walking in to it - bathroom.

But then I remembered the cabinet that I love, which was bought specifically for the space:

 Not such a good match.

Time for Plan B.

Again, Pinterest comes to the rescue.

 

I absolutely love this print. Of course, Christian doesn't like it - and it is $700. I am not putting a $700 anything  in to the hot, humid bathroom. 

Crap. 

Plan C.

Again, freaking adorable. The best part is, there is a book available on Amazon for $11 with the entire alphabet.  Trust me when I say that I would have no problem taking a book apart and framing select letters.

But I wonder how it would look in a bathroom used by a 20 year old boy, a 18 year old boy and a 16 year old boy?

There is always this, by the same artist:

Which even though it has nothing to do with a bath or bathroom, I find adorable. In fact, there isn't much by this artist that I wouldn't hang in my house.

I have some other ideas, but in the process of spending some time today trying to figure out what to do, I showed Christian Plan A and he loves it. We decided that we were going to build a vintage looking shelf  to replace the cabinet, and even headed to Lowe's to price the material.We even talked about just repainting the green cabinet (not my favorite idea) or finding a cheap cabinet at the thrift store/Craigslist/Freecycle to paint.

And now. Now, after all of this, I am afraid to paint my smallish, windowless, guest bathroom dark gray. I guess more accurately, the paint color is Zinc, but whatever.

See, I want to move when our lease is up at the end of September. That sure seems like a lot of work - painting and then priming back to white when we move - for 7-8 months.

So stay tuned, folks. Something will be changing in the guest bathroom. I'm just not sure what yet.