""I always say, you don't have to live in a home you hate because you can't afford the full renovation," Kathleen adds on Instagram. "There are lots of budget-friendly updates you can do in a bathroom." She points to peel-and-stick tile, vanity upgrades, lighting upgrades, accessories, new shower curtains, and paint as examples, all of which made a difference in her budget bathroom makeover."
""The paint should be so little that you [have] to put pressure onto the roller to get paint out," she says on Instagram. In other words, you should be working with an almost-dry roller, she adds. "This was my first experience stenciling, and wow did it humble me," Kathleen recalls. "I ended up painting over the entire wall and redoing it." The second time around, she learned to roll her soaking-wet roller onto a piece of cardboard."
Kathleen Martin and her husband completed a budget 'Band-Aid reno' to update a dated bathroom while planning a full shower gut later. They replaced fixtures and hired a plumber to reposition the toilet. Walls received a stencil treatment to mimic wallpaper, using a nearly-dry roller and offloading paint onto cardboard to avoid blotchiness. Floors were stripped, a new subfloor installed, and peel-and-stick tiles applied. Vanity, lighting, accessories, and a new shower curtain supplemented the overhaul. The project prioritized affordable materials and targeted updates to achieve a dramatic visual improvement without a full renovation.
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