Adding a Peel and Stick Tile Floor To Our Budget-Friendly Main Bathroom Makeover

This post is sponsored by Wayfair. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Good morning! Well, last week I tackled the floor in our bathroom and I am so happy with how it turned out. I feel like it gives the bathroom a much more updated feel but was such an inexpensive and easy project. I originally was planning on wallpapering the bathroom but both the wallpapers I was considering (here and here) would have been over $1000 for this space so I decided to add a pattern on the floor instead. (And then I used one of those in my dollhouse bathroom which is finally finished – I just haven’t had a chance to photograph it yet)!

I used this great peel and stick tile I found on Wayfair and it only cost me $129 to do the whole bathroom floor! And this was a really good sized floor because it goes into the water closet area and then a large linen closet area and I ran it throughout the floor there too. I think I will use this same brand but in different colors for the upstairs bathrooms and because those are quite a bit smaller I think it should be more like $30-$40 to do them! I had been torn between painting the floor and using peel and stick and am so glad I went this route. I will update again in a few months on how they are holding up but I was really impressed with how easy they were to put down and how well they stuck. I just used a box cutter and a straight edge to cut them and then regular scissors for the ones I needed to cut more rounded like around the toilet and door frames. I placed them over our existing tiles making sure that none of my seams were over the grout lines. There are already lots of tutorials on youtube so I didn’t bother to make one. You can search on there for installing “floor pops” if you want more detailed instructions. I read so many reviews and the one thing I would say is that the pattern does not always perfectly line up from tile to tile which slightly threw me off in the beginning but I quickly realized once you stood up you couldn’t tell at all. Once I realized that it was easy going from there!

Here is a photo I took of our bathroom shortly before we moved in.

And now:

Now that the floor is in I do think I will add some board and batten in here at some point. As I mentioned in the post last week – one thing that was tricky moving into a new house vs. an older one was the fact that I knew it would be wasteful and not financially wise to redo the bathrooms even though they weren’t particularly my taste. First let me emphasize they are perfectly wonderful bathrooms and I am so very thankful for them. This one is really good-sized! The finishes just weren’t what I necessarily would have chosen so I wanted it to feel a bit more like “us” and also to coordinate a bit more with our bedroom. Because everything in here was brand new I felt like it would be very wasteful to gut this space and put in a more custom vanities and redo the shower. Plus, as far as resale value goes it wouldn’t make sense to do that either so with that in mind I just went with a very basic cosmetic makeover. I am thinking about doing a post soon that covers how we decide what remodels are worth doing and when it’s better for us just to make some cosmetic changes and talk about that in more detail and our thought process behind those decisions in each house.

Here’s another before shot:

And here it is with just some budget-friendly cosmetic changes:

To hide the shower I just hung a regular curtain rod (not a shower one!) and then hung two drapery panels. I can pull the closed during the day and then open them up to use the shower. It’s a really inexpensive way to hide a shower that doesn’t have beautiful tile you want to stare at – haha!

Removing the oversized builder-grade mirror and hanging two of these round ones really helped dress the space up! And swapping out the sconces was my one big splurge for the room. They really make the room feel more high-end though and I am so glad I went with these ones. Not only are they beautiful – they were the easiest sconces I have every installed!

I usually stick with this style faucet when I am making over bathrooms but this one caught my eye and it was on sale for only $66 so I decided to give it a try and I am a HUGE fan! Both the girls love it too and want it in their bathrooms when we give them a little cosmetic makeover this winter.

I’ve played around with both chair and a stool in here. They both need to go back to their “real” spots in the house but I figured I would try each one for a few days to see which I liked better before I start hunting for the right piece for the vanity area. I am leaning towards a stool but haven’t decided for sure yet.