Bathroom Makeover: Before & After

I am finally ready to show you the upstairs bathroom again! The goal was to make this room look better.  I think we managed that.  Changing the fixtures (sink/toilet) was pretty much out of the question.  We are considering a major gut/demo and do-over in the future (not the near future), so this before & after became a decorating challenge.

Here is the after:

and here is the before (when we bought the house):

and what I started with a few months ago:

Goodbye dark grout lines! Goodbye white shower curtain! Hello little baskets! Hello ceiling light!  Hello cabana stripe hand towels and navy carpet!

At first I couldn't handle the bold shower curtain...it overwhelmed me.  Then, as I was going through my closets, emptying out everything for the garage sale, I realized that I just couldn't bare to give it up.  So I tried the curtain again and it stuck!

I had planned on putting up a faux roman blind.  It was really cute but it blocked too much light.  So the blind came down.

Other stuff: We hung a metal hanging fruit basket over the shower curtain rod to hold all of my son's toys.  The basket was from goodwill.  The light fixture, new wicker garbage pail, toilet paper basket and step stool were also thrifted.  The shower curtain I picked up from ebay.  The hand towels were on sale at Bed Bath and Beyond.  The bath mat was from The Bay (on sale).

I hope you like it!!!

Update: Since 2011 we got rid of dark bath carpet (gets too wet with the kids) and only use the small bath mat towel thingies. We went back to a white shower curtain because pattern makes my head explode. The shower doesn't work, the toilet requires plunging and animated language to function fully.  The grout renew on the grout lines has held up perfectly!