blue bathroom

Our bathroom was one of the first rooms to get a major facelift. First of all, it was blue. I don't mean the general color was blue. I mean, the tub was blue, the tile on the walls was blue, the vanity was blue, the sink was blue. Even the toilet was blue, or at least violet. And the floors are pink! How does that fit it?
We didn't want to spend a lot of money on the bathroom, so we decided to give it a face lift instead of a total remodel. That meant no re-tiling and no new fixtures. We had to change our minds about no new fixtures when I tried to open the vanity drawer and it practically disintegrated in my hands. Nothing was going to stay sanitary in that bathroom with that vanity. I haven't mentioned the medicine cabinet yet. In all honesty, the existing cabinet was pretty ingenious. I had a built-in light fixture, outlet, and a razor deposit which was a hole in the cabinet that one could drop old razors into and they would fall into the wall cavity. OK, the razor deposit actually creeped me out. Cool or not, there was no way I was going to put my toothbrush into that medicine cabinet. So, the vanity, sink and medicine cabinet had to go. And while we were at it, we might as well get rid of the violet toilet.
So we took another trip to IKEA (we go weeknights instead of weekends as a family rule) and bought new plumbing fixtures. Luckily IKEA has a lot of smaller bathroom furniture, which fit better in our one small bathroom. Surprisingly, it has a lot of storage too.
Since we didn't want to re-tile, we kept the tub and the blue tile. To tie into the blue color, but not go so overboard as to have a blue toilet, I found some wallpaper that had the same blue color in it. It is called "Daydream" and I found it from this wonderful website called hygge and west. Hygge is a Danish word that loosely means "cozy." It is a word that I really loved using my year living in Denmark, especially since so many places felt hygge in Copenhagen.
One other improvement to the bathroom was taking out the shower door. The previous owner worked with iron/metal as a profession, so we have an array of crazy metal work around our house. One item he made was a tri-fold shower door. I'll give him credit for an efficient design, but the door made our already small bathroom feel even smaller. Now we have a clear shower curtain only.
Here is a before photo of the bathroom:
And photos from after: