More Bathroom Updates and How to Patch a Hole.

Well, I've been working on the bathroom again. (I've been updating the previous updates.)

If you remember from my previous bathroom post that this lovely African motif was the before.

And this hand painted stenciled bathroom was the after.

Before animal masks.

And the creepy after.

One item I didn't mention in the first post was this hole in the wall. Someone in my family (who shall remain nameless because he denies it but we all know it was him) knocked down a heavy art piece hitting and tearing the anchors of the toilet paper roll holder right out of the wall.

I painted over it but it needed something to cover the hole.

I found a drywall patch at Lowes. (And since it is extremely late as I type this and my judgement isn't as keen I'm going to share a clueless moment I had. When I looked at the patch at the store I noticed the 4 x 4 in the top right corner meaning the size of the patch was a 4 inch square. For some reason when I saw it I thought I was getting 4 patches at 4 inches each. And then I actually was surprised when I opened it and found only 1 patch in the package. Slightly embarrassing.)

Anyway, the patch was too big so I cut it to fit and stuck it over the hole.

I used some paintable spackling to cover the patch.

After it dried I lightly sanded it and sprayed it with a can of texture.

Here is the painted over wall. I can still see the patch somewhat. If it still bothers me after the paint fully dries then I will try spraying a little more texture on it.

I also went back over the design with glossy paint.

And I got rid of the old decor including the mildly frightening animal masks. I found this mirror at Hobby Lobby half off. I love it!

So once again here is the before.

The charming after. I really like how it turned out.

Now all I need to do is to find a mirror to go over the sink.