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Powder Room “Reveal!”

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I feel a little funny calling this post a “reveal,” like I’ve been slaving away behind the curtain and am now dramatically pulling it aside with a resounding, “Ta-Da!”

But since we don’t all live in the same town and you haven’t all seen my powder room in person, “reveal” feels sort of right, doesn’t it?

Here’s where we started on move-in day – no mirror, green/black walls.

And here’s where we are today!

Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.
Here’s a rundown of what I did to get from point A to B:
  1. Hung an oversized mirror with a glossy black frame.
  2. Wallpapered the top 2/3 of the wall in Clarke & Clarke Indira Damson wallpaper.
  3. Installed crown moulding.
  4. Installed a chair rail and shadow boxes underneath the wallpaper.
  5. Converted the recessed light to a capiz pendant.
I’ll walk you through specific how-to’s for all of these steps over the next week or two, but today will just let the pictures flow so you can get a good look at all the bright, peacocky goodness!
Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.

The colors in the wallpaper work so well with the runner in the hallway, right outside the bathroom door.

Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.

The powder room is quite small, so it’s hard to capture a full view of the room, but this capiz pendant from West Elm added so much glamour and whimsy.  I installed it by following the same steps I did to convert the recessed lights above our kitchen island to pendant lights.
Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.

Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.

I decided to only wallpaper the top 2/3 of the room because of how colorful and busy the pattern is.  I like having the white below the wallpaper to balance out all the rich colors.  Plus, I just love the polished look that wainscoting brings to a room.
Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.

And before you go, what would a room reveal be without a proper before and after?  
Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.

Pretty drastic, right?!  
I absolutely love it and couldn’t be any happier with how this makeover came out.  The whole process was more a facelift than a renovation – eventually we’ll tile the floor and replace the vanity and toilet, but with a few carefully chosen tweaks, this powder room barely looks related to its former self.

Check out my tutorials for how to install a compound chair rail, how to install wainscoting, and how to hang paste-the-wall wallpaper for more steps on how I got from before to after!

Makeover a powder room on a budget with simple upgrades - bold peacock wallpaper, wainscoting, and a glam light fixture.



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