I'm Monica Megan I'm an interior
designer a blogger and a hardcore DIY er
so the Lowe's challenge is blogger
versus builder-grade
I have a budget of only a thousand
dollars to work with and I need to
transform how did this space that is
just fine but really who wants a
bathroom that's fine everybody wants
this amazing space and I'm challenged to
do it for just $1,000 so I open the door
to my builder-grade bathroom and the
first thing I notice is yellow gotta go
I'm kind of a big fan of peel-and-stick
flooring I came up with a project that
could go over the existing floor it's
very inexpensive it is very durable and
it's easy to work with so I wanted to do
a combination of plank tiles and also
just regular square tiles but they
weren't going to stay square I cut them
down into hexagon shapes and created a
really neat visual on the floor so as
soon as you walk in one of the first
things you see it's kind of an
interesting mosaic that just screams
custom bathroom after I had created this
amazing idea and planned for the floor I
needed to move to the vanity and the
vanity that they had had a ton of
storage in it so that was something I
really needed to keep in mind
I couldn't just do something that looked
great but wasn't functional so we got
rid of the existing vanity and started
building from scratch and I wanted to
give them something that had a lot of
substance and maybe a little bit more
space it's a big bathroom so we built
the vanity out of six by six posts
they're real thick and chunky and they
just scream expensive to me but they're
not
let's talk about the top of this vanity
so for the vanity top it had to be
really cool and stylish and I just
wanted something that would make a major
statement so I used pieces of wood
ripped them down and created kind of a
wooden mosaic top I think it might be
the coolest manatee top in the world on
the far wall I decided that I wanted to
really focus on adding some texture so
what I did is I took the same vinyl
planks that I used on the floor and
carried that all the way up the back
wall it really gives it a look of
distressed authentic wood but to make it
even more authentic I added little
copper tacks in each plank so that it
really does have some texture to it and
it looks like we did a very cool rustic
wall after adding lots of texture to the
accent wall I really wanted to bring
some life into the room and I knew I
wanted to do it through plants so I
decided that I would build a garden wall
between the shower and the tub the final
thing that I knew I needed to take care
of was the very nondescript hollow core
door and I knew that I could change it
with just paint and painters tape so I
marked out a very cool pattern kind of
playing off the geometrics in the vanity
onto the door and just used a little bit
of paint and this door is incredible so
at the end of the day and we have a
bathroom that is filled with incredibly
unique projects it's completely loaded
with style and the whole thing did not
break the budget you don't have to
settle for what you were given in your
builder-grade bathroom I mean there's so
much you can do if you get creative and
be willing to kind of put your own
personality out there
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