How To: Bathroom Stripes Adriane's February Jumpstart Project 2009

How To: Bathroom Stripes
Adriane's February Jumpstart Project 2009

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Title: Cute Small Lavatory
Name: Adriane Barreto
Time: 2 hours
Cost: about $5

Adriane transformed her small bathroom with a few simple stripes of silver Con-Tact paper — adding depth and character to an often forgotten room . Click above for the pics and head below for all the instructions. Give Adriane a THUMBS UP if you find this project helpful....

BEFORE

TOOLS:
Silver Con-Tact brand covering
Ruler
Small sharp knife

STEPS:
The guest lavatory of my new apartment was very ugly. As I moved in, I painted it in off white, as the rest of the house. I cut strips of silver contact with a small sharp knife , with a thickness of 9 cm each, and placed them on only one wall, with a distance of also 9 cm between each of them. Over them, I put an antique mirror, that I had already "painted" with silver paste.

RESOURCES:
local hardware store

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Comments (13)

Great transformation.

Where did you get the contact paper? Thanks.

posted by bromeliad on February 13th 2009 at 3:59pm
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Wow, from tacky to very classy! Good decision to replace the toilet lid as well.

posted by Kaete on February 13th 2009 at 4:08pm
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smart, tasteful choices... nice

posted by sunan on February 13th 2009 at 4:17pm
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Very nice result, and I love the mirror too - But I would have thought that cutting very long strips of contact paper and getting them on the wall evenly would have been much more difficult than taping and painting the stripes?

I wonder what drove her to choose this method rather than the other and what the advantages of doing so were?

posted by bepsf on February 13th 2009 at 4:24pm
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Hi!

Thanks for the thumbs up and the comments!

When I moved in to this apartment this lavatory was really ugly!

I got the contact paper in a store near my house, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I´m not sure where you can find it there, but maybe you might find it on the net.

In fact it was really easy to cut the strips, with a ruler and a sharp knife. I already had the contact paper at home and I made it on an "empty" afternoon... When I saw, it was ready!!

posted by Adriane on February 13th 2009 at 4:44pm
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Love this! works so well with the mirror

posted by laura123 on February 13th 2009 at 4:49pm
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That's amazing. What a transformation.

posted by Lisa Hunter (Montreal) on February 13th 2009 at 4:55pm
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is anyone else having difficulty voting? can't get the thumbs up thing to work!

posted by timmy jr. on February 13th 2009 at 6:12pm
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honey, you don't know what UGLY is if you think your old bath was bad!!!
but you did an amazing job!! i couldn't tell it was contact paper at all. it looks prefect! and your mirror looks perfect too! great job:)

posted by MIAMI on February 13th 2009 at 8:25pm
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That is awesome! My mother loves contact paper for the wrong reasons. I should show her this and see if I can expand her horizons.

posted by Heather C on February 13th 2009 at 8:31pm
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Looks like a pretty hotel bath, great job!

posted by cassielynn on February 17th 2009 at 11:44pm
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So pretty I even went out to get my own roll of silver contact paper. I love this site.

posted by missmarie on February 18th 2009 at 12:10am
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This turned out great. And the stripes work so well with the mirror!

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posted by jessimarie33 on February 18th 2009 at 9:15am
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