Do Your Bathroom Walls Still Have Glaze?

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Remember a decade ago when glazing your bathroom walls were the rage? Of course, then we loved the way they looked! The walls in this bathroom were glazed using plastic bags from the grocery store.

Fast forward to the present - You don’t love that look so much anymore? Is it time for a mini bathroom makeover. Here is how to get an up-to-date look in just a few days.



HERE IS A CLOSE UP OF THE GLAZED WALL

REPAIRS: Make any repairs to your bathroom walls before you start painting.

• In this bathroom, the wall where the toilet roll holder had been placed was soft. So, a minor plaster repair job had to be done before painting.





• Also, repair work needed to be done to the baseboard that ran in front of the bathtub. It had swelled and pulled away from the tub after years of using the shower and having water splash outside the tub.

• First the holes in the bathroom walls were filled with patching plaster and after the plaster dried, it was sanded. Because the bathroom walls were coated with glaze, they were lightly sanded before the primer was applied. A 180 grit sand paper was used. This is a fine sandpaper.











• Then the primer was painted unto the bathroom walls. An oil-based primer was used so the blue glaze did not show through when the new color was applied. More about primer.



• After the primer dried, the final coat of paint was put on the walls. We recommend using either satin or semi-gloss in bathrooms on both the walls and trim because of the moisture that accumulates. The color in this bathroom is “Arabian Sands” in a satin finish by Behr on the walls and the color “White” in a semi-gloss finish for the trim.

The shelves in this bathroom were an eye sore. They were just painted and glazed before. The bathroom will look so much more appealing with a curtain placed in front of the shelves.












There are also two windows that have shutters on them with a valance that goes across the top. The shutters were reused. The valance was old, faded so it had to go.







Instead of purchasing one shower curtain, three shower curtains were purchased. Out of the extra two, one was used to make a valance for the double window. For the valance, the shower curtain was cut wide enough to fold over and sew a pocket for the rod to slide in and a hem at the bottom.











The third shower curtain was used to make a curtain to cover the shelves. In making the cover for the shelves, a rod was bought to go across the top of the shelves and an extra set of shower curtain rings so it would match the tub shower curtain.

• An inexpensive light figure was purchased for over the sink.
• The towel bars, towel ring and ceiling light ring were gold colored, so to bring them up-to-date they were spray painted with “Rust-Oleum Specialty Silver Metallic”.

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