Hello! I'm Suzannah, a serious DIYer and mom of two little ones. Follow along with my DIY fixer upper house renovations, sewing and crafty projects, real food recipes, and de-stressing goals.
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Floral wallpaper transformation (and more) in our plain upstairs bathroom
7.30.2025
I think I’ve done it… I think I’ve wallpapered the last room in this home that needs it! I hesitated for a while because I had already renovated this bathroom… Back in 2020, with kind of a mix of that organic earthy modern thing that was trending for a while plus some traditional elements like wainscoting. It was...fine. Honestly, fine. But I also thought it was sort of begging for wallpaper about the wainscoting on the white walls.
Floral wallpaper and sink skirt bathroom transformation
As usual for me, I debated from us over 10+ wallpaper samples. I finally settled on this Climbing Blossom pattern from Chasing Paper, which just felt right with a sort of 1930s vibe with the yellow and roses and birds. Especially this time of year when you can see the tree branches through the window in the bathroom, makes the bathroom feel like a treehouse! It has lovely shades of green, just like the trim (Sherwin-Williams Acacia Haze), and doesn’t contradict or try to match the neutral, unfortunately gray tile floor (really wish I’d done something more timeless there, but here we are.)
This is my first time using Chasing Paper wallpaper, and it was really a breeze. Their wallpapers come in different lengths, so I was able to use shorter panels, which meant no stretching a long roll out on the floor or from the ceiling to match and measure the right pieces. It took me literally a minute and a half to install one of these panels. (I filmed myself for an Instagram reel so I know!) it’s beautiful, thick, high-quality paper that doesn’t bubble or soften with the paste underneath it.
I’ve used peel and stick as well as traditional pasted paper, and I standby traditional as being much easier to install! It’s messier, because you have to get a roller and some gooey paste, and it can splash, but you can scootch and reposition pretty much as much as you want with a traditional pasted paper.
I also replaced the Roman shade on this window; it had had a cute pattern on it, but was also more of that organic block print look. I got another one of these little sage green striped Roman shade, which is so important for blocking the sun in the afternoons on this west-facing window, but also adds some great texture. My code SUZANNAHSTANLEY gets you 22% off anything at Twopages. This shade is actually the same one I used in my downstairs bathroom! It matches both green paints. I did outside mount for this window because I don’t want to block any more light than absolutely necessary. I’ve also learned recently the outside mount is so, so easy to install! You just screw a few screws into the wall, which is much easier than all the lining up and drilling upward into trim.
This was the before...
And here's some major progress! But I wasn't done...
I had two more little projects I wanted to do in here to make this bathroom update complete. First, the little black cabinet you can kind of see on the left in some of the photos above was a cheap wood veneer one that I got at HomeGoods long ago and the black was sticking out like a sore thumb. I painted it the same color as the trim to make it blend in and feel more like a built-in. Thanks to summer weather, I was able to sand, prime, and put lots of coats of paint on this thing, all in one afternoon. (See that here.)
Finally, I wanted the charm of a sink skirt, plus bonus: it covers the plumbing that’s in the wall and floor (because of the way the former owner did things when he had all the plumbing replaced in the house). I’ve made sink skirts several times before, and I have a detailed tutorial here! For this one I didn’t need a lining, in fact, it’s the same fabric as the Roman shade, which is a medium weight polyester and is totally opaque.
I cut three panels of fabric to length, sewed them together, hemmed them, and then did two rows of gathering stitches at the top. (See the tutorial for photos of these steps.) Probably should’ve done three because the thread did break a couple times. I scrunched the gathers to the right size for the perimeter of the sink and stuck it to the sticky Velcro I had applied to the sink edge. Voilà ! Very easy, and washable because you can always take the Velcro strips apart.
I’m so happy with the pretty updates I did in this bathroom and it makes me smile every time I walk in. Linking all the sources I can below!
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