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Welcome back to our Master bathroom $100 Room Challenge ~ Week 3 !!  I am finally seeing some day light…I still have a lot left to do.  If you have missed the first couple weeks and want to catch up with my progress in the challenge click here ⇒ $100 Room Challenge: Our Master Bathroom.

To refresh you on the $100 Room Challenge it’s a challenge created by Erin from Lemons, Lavender and Laundry she has invited several bloggers to participate in renovating a room in your home in 4 weeks with a budget of $100.  

Let me catch you up after last week’s update.  I finished up the cabinets and placed the drawers and doors back into the cabinets.  It was a great time to sort and organized everything.

I painted the wall with my own version of Seattle Gray.  I shared the whole process on my stories, but for those that didn’t get to see that let me explain.  I love the color Seattle Gray by Benjamin Moore.  To view my Instagram highlight on my $100 Room Challenge you can go view it here ⇒ INSTAGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

For the bathroom I would need two gallons to paint the walls.  That would take almost the full budget allowed for this challenge.  So I thought maybe I could use the paint I had left (which was almost a full gallon) from painting our front door.

But it was too bright of a blue for what I want in the room. So my next thought was to buy one gallon of paint at Lowe’s matching the Edgecomb gray and mixing the two paints together along with a touch of gray to make my own Seattle Gray.  The reason I decided on matching the Edgecomb gray was to keep the grays in the same color family.

It came out pretty close to matching.  If you like the color I would suggest to use Seattle Gray.  It is a beautiful color.

Before I paint, I prep things for easy clean up.  Here is what I like to do before I start to paint.

1. I like to remove all the light and plug in plates and tape over the area that will be exposed.

2. Wrapping up all the bathroom fixtures to avoid getting paint splattered on to them.

3.  Taping around the light fixtures that can not be removed and remove all the globes or lamp shades.

4.  Protect any items with plastic to prevent from getting paint on them as well.

This will save some clean up time.  The next thing I like to do is patch up any holes from nails or screws with Spackle.

I am raising the hand towel rings higher.  The height they are now the towels hit the wooden railing.  So I used Spackle to fill in the wholes and will sand before painting.

I gave the walls two coats of paint.

Once the paint was dried I placed the larger mirror on the wall.  The other two will have to wait until I finish the walls they are placed on.

I also shared on my stories how unhappy I was with the mirror and how the back side of the frame reflects off of the mirror.  I tried painting the inside space with paint. I didn’t like how it looked either so I grabbed my caulk and filled a thin line into the space.  Took my finger with alcohol and smooth out the caulk.  It looks so much better.

While waiting for the wall paint to be mixed at Lowe’s I took a look at the OOPs shelves (paint that was brought back to the store) to see what they have.  I always find myself looking at clearance shelves no matter where I am. 🙂  I found a little sample jar of mistint paint.

I thought it was pretty close to the tile color in our bathroom.  For $1.25 if it didn’t work I could use it for another future project, right?

Our grout use to be a lighter taupe color over time it became dark.  We never sealed our grout.  That is something I will do if we ever do tile again.

I have seen on Pinterest where people refresh their old grout with paint.  Different types of paint from acrylic craft paint, chalk paint and most popular one grout paint.  I thought I would try the oops latex paint.  With sanded grout, like ours since it hasn’t been sealed, the paint should absorb easily.  Using latex paint should act like a sealer as well.

Here is how:

First step was clean the floor well.  I used good ‘ole hot soapy water and a scouring pad.

Our bathroom tile has texture so the grout got trapped in the crevices.  I wanted to remove as much of it as I could.

Once the floor was good and dry I used a stiff bristle craft brush (size of the grout line) and my little jar of mistint paint and I started painting the grout lines.

I painted in small sections at a time.  Doing a square at a time.  I started in the back corner.

I used a damp fiber cloth and wrapped it around my finger to wipe off any paint from the tile.

I let the paint dry over night, the next morning I started to clean the tiles.  When I was wiping the tiles the new paint was peeling off.

Back to the drawing board.  I realized what I did wrong!!!!!  I didn’t sand or primed the floor.  UGH! I always sand and prime.  What is the matter with me???  So I scrubbed the floor again trying to remove as much of the left on paint as I could. I sanded with 120 grit sand paper and primed all the grout. I am using the Benjamin Moore Advance paint,  Edgecomb Gray.  I liked the look of it when I painted the grout lines after the OOPS paint flopped.  I did the same procedure when painting the first time besides sanded and primed first.  I gave the grout lines two coats.

After one hour I wiped it with soapy water like I did before and everything stayed intact.  YAY!  A lot of hard work but you don’t know until you try, right?

Let’s look at my goals for this challenge ~ I marked though the items that has been completed.

• paint the mirrors  – $0 cost had paint on hand
• paint both cabinets – $0 cost had paint on hand
• update vanity stool $3.27 for fabric – $0 cost had paint on hand
• paint walls $21.79 one gallon of paint
• update floor $1.36 – second go $0 cost had paint on hand
• address the window wall and the wall behind the bathroom toilet
• update decor pieces

Total cost so far $26.42

Be sure to keep watching for my process report each Wednesday until REVEAL DAY!  I still have a lot left to do.  I lost 2 days due to the floor.  To review Week 1 and 2 you can click to go to my $100 Room Challenge page.  $100 ROOM CHALLENGE

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♥ Terrie

Check out all of the participants that are sharing their progress of Week 3.