How to Decorate a Powder Room for Less than $50

Full a wonderful powder room makeover on a $50 finances! Discover ways to make cheap modifications that create a big effect.

Typically I get loopy concepts in my head. Donnie is aware of this. I at all times remind him that it’s one of many issues he loves most about me. 😉

He can at all times inform when I’ve an thought brewing. I begin dropping delicate (or not-so delicate) hints. Often he gently tries to speak me out of it, itemizing many [incredibly valid] the reason why my loopy thought is… effectively, loopy. However often I do it anyway. Oops.

However, I promise– Making over the powder room after we have been as much as our eyeballs in a kitchen renovation made full sense!

You understand how if you get one thing new and it’s sitting there wanting all stunning, after which hastily the factor subsequent to it appears completely misplaced, so it’s good to do one thing about that too? That’s completely what occurred right here.

Kitchen, Entry, and Powder Room Updates

You see, issues have been lastly beginning to come collectively within the kitchen and look one thing like this:

It’s all good and shiny and fairly (and never but completed, however we’re getting there) and looking out beautiful. I even turned our previous coat closet into a pleasant, organized pantry to go along with it…

I do know that it may be exhausting to image the place all the things is, so I made you a bit diagram 🙂 :

So do you see what is correct subsequent to that kitchen that’s coming proper alongside and that pantry that’s oh-so-nice-and-organized?

A not-so-pretty powder room.

I’d seize one thing from our stunning new pantry, peek within the door of the powder room proper beside it, and be met with this:

Have you learnt what that picture is from? It’s from one in all my first “room reveals” ever on the weblog. This was the “after” shot– hysterical! All of us have to start out someplace! Apparently I believed that the powder room needed to be powder blue, and clearly that was throughout my “paint all the furnishings black” part.

For the reason that kitchen is at present consuming up most of my house enchancment finances, I used to be decided to do a little “refresh” for this room as inexpensively as potential, setting myself a $50 restrict. It’s a tiny room, however equipment and decor items can add up rapidly, so I knew I is perhaps pushing it! So how did I enhance a powder room on a brilliant tight finances? I’m so glad you requested!

Price range-Pleasant DIY Powder Room Makeover Concepts

An enormous due to Behr for sponsoring this submit! My favorable opinion of gorgeous, high-quality paint is 100% my very own. 🙂 For extra data, see my disclosures right here.

1. Apply a contemporary coat of paint.

I began with one of the crucial cheap methods to rework a room– paint. I truly had some paint left over from after we painted our major bed room, and I LOVED it, so I made a decision to make use of that for the partitions. (The colour is Behr Marquee’s Silver Metropolis MQ2-59.)

The vainness was in determined want of a change as effectively, so I picked up a bit $4 pattern of Behr Premium Plus Extremely Clear Pond PPU13-15, and I used to be in enterprise. (As a result of do I ever do a room that doesn’t embody a bit aqua? Reply: no.)

I’m at all times amazed at how a lot a bit little bit of paint and some equipment can change a room. Bye bye powder blue, whats up…

…gentle, shiny, and exquisite! I’m at all times nervous when I attempt to decide an aqua coloration that it’s going to be too blue or too inexperienced or too neon. However Clear Pond was perfection– the precise coloration I used to be searching for.

Not dangerous for $4 price of paint + a shiny little knob I already had! 🙂 Oh and talking of that…

2. Beautify utilizing gadgets from round the home.

I lately talked in regards to the oh-so-simple shelf we made for this room:

It’s painted in my most favourite shade of white (sure, there are completely shades of white!), Behr Marquee Cameo White MQ3-32. The shelf and all the things sitting on it value me a grand complete of $0– all gadgets I already had.

I advised Donnie that my house decor & craft provide hoarding tendencies would turn out to be useful someday! I grabbed a bunch of equipment from my stash in addition to some weeds stunning clippings from my entrance yard, and I had instantaneous shelf decor!

3. Use DIY wall prints.

One among my favourite methods to save cash on artwork is to assume exterior of the field and body belongings you wouldn’t essentially consider. The floral “print” on my shelf is definitely wrapping paper.

I’ve additionally framed reward luggage earlier than, in addition to material, paper napkins, fairly playing cards, previous e-book pages, paint chips, washi tape designs– there are such a lot of choices!

I additionally love to include household gadgets which have particular which means (and are, once more, free!). The previous books have been my grandmother’s, who I by no means received to satisfy. And really, I included an previous black and white picture of her on the wall reverse the shelf as effectively.

One other strategy to fill frames without cost is to make one thing your self! I created the “It’s effectively with my soul” print in about 5 minutes, simply utilizing some textual content and a free graphic from PicMonkey.

I really like the look of watercolor, however I’m not so good at it myself, so for the smaller piece on this wall, I used the Waterlogue app on my telephone to make one of many images from our seaside trip look watercolor-esque. Then I had it printed for simply 30 cents– doesn’t get less expensive than that! 🙂

4. Swap out the {hardware} and equipment.

Shifting over to the wall subsequent to the vainness, I added a towel ring, which I have a tendency to love higher than the previous towel bar we had earlier than, and extra artwork.

5. Refresh the sunshine fixtures quite than changing them.

Lighting fixtures are costly and might completely blow a finances! Once I initially labored on this rest room just a few years in the past, I painted the bottom of the sunshine fixture and swapped the globes for one thing a bit extra trendy. Swapping the sunshine bulbs for one thing brighter is one other straightforward repair to brighten the room.

Doing a bit refresh quite than fully changing the sunshine fixture can save tons of cash and nonetheless have stunning outcomes!

Powder Room Price range Breakdown

Do you assume I stayed inside my $50 finances? Right here’s the breakdown:

• Paint sample- $4
• New rug- $15
• Towel ring- $14
• Towel- $6
• Basket on commode- $6
• Feather art- $1.25
• Seaside photo- $0.30

Grand complete: $46.55 — Woot!

Not a nasty little transformation for lower than $50! And wait till you see the earlier than and after. Ridiculous!

I’d say it appears only a tiny bit higher. 😉 I really like how a bit paint and some easy swaps can completely rework an area!

Thanks a lot for following alongside! Have an exquisite week!

An enormous due to Behr for sponsoring this submit! My favorable opinion of gorgeous, high-quality paint is 100% my very own. 🙂 For extra data, see my disclosures right here.