Gold Sharpie Walls and Vinyl Polka Dot Ceiling

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Hey, so…guess what? I’m about done for now with the powder room. Well, the marble vanity top is still in the works but that might still take a while. But the gold sharpie walls and vinyl polka dot ceiling is done.

gold sharpie walls and vinyl polka dot ceiling

 
The golden dots ended up on the ceiling.
And I love it. I really do!
Sorry Mom!
 
She told me not to do it because she thought it was stupid.
I didn’t listen.
The reason is that I felt it was too busy next to the mirror. But on the ceiling, it draws your eyes up. Thin stripes on the walls and polka dots on the ceiling. Perfect combo in my book.

{UPDATE: The dots are now available in my Etsy store! 
Click HERE to see}

Some people might share my mom’s opinion but I don’t really care because I’m happy with it.
I think next week I will have a post about what she all doesn’t like, haha!
She is my toughest critic and I love her for that because nobody else would tell me their opinion as blunt as she does. It’ll be a funny post.
mint vanity mirror with gold sharpie walls
Click HERE to see my mirror makeover post.

It is really hard to take good pictures in this tiny room that doesn’t have any windows.

So cut me some slack, ok?
gold striped medicine cabinet
Click HERE to see my medicine cabinet makeover.
gold striped medicine cabinet with gold sharpie striped walls
Sharpie striped bathroom walls
Sharpie striped bathroom walls
I’m going to call it my sharpie room because the lines are Sharpie as well. For the mirror and the walls I only needed two water-based Sharpies! After reading Mandy’s (Vintage Revivals) post about her Sharpie wallpaper where she recommends using water based Sharpies so you wouldn’t have to prime over it with oil-based primer later, I decided to use water-based as well.

This was so CHEAP, really! Remember the gold paint from Lowes would have cost me around $80.

And here is a before picture. Remember this?
powder room with beige painted diamond pattern
I like it so much better now.

And if you are asking me how I figured out the spacing for the dots, then I have to tell you that after trying to figure it out with my pathetic math skills and failing miserably, I decided to just jump right in and mostly eyeball them.
All I did is place them on each side, measured the middle between the dots…placed the next dot… then measured the middle again, placed another dot… And so on. That’s it.
The rest was eyeballed. For real! I did and they turned out great. I’m sure nobody will ever be able to tell that they aren’t perfect.
The vinyl was gold metallic (091) Oracal 631 (which is the wall vinyl). I didn’t need any transfer paper either. Simple stick and peel!

I love the polka dots so much that I’d like to make another polka dot wall somewhere else! How do you like them?

(If you are interested in seeing some more of my gold sharpie projects then you can click HERE for the vanity mirror project,  HERE for my gold sharpie bookends or HERE for my gold sharpie graphic wallpaper.)

Click HERE to read about my DIY crystal vanity shades that I made for the bathroom light fixture.
And HERE to read about how I fixed our ugly vanity kick plate.
And this painted towel and bathroom updates by clicking HERE:
DIY Fabric Painted Gold Polka Dot Towel

Stop back on Friday ok, because I have something exciting to share with you!

 

Tschüß

 

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64 Comments

  2. OH I LOVE IT ALL…. every tiny little touch. And tell us more about where/how you got the mirror too?

    I am definitely inspired. I really, really, NEED to paint my bathroom walls and was planning to use firring strips of wood to do a mini board and batten on the lower half and now I am truly inspired. Thanks so much.

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  3. I did not realize that your “My Lowes Mirror Makeover” was hyperlinked. And I would have just cried if I broke it, but you know, I like it better with the frame part open even better I think….. decision now… liked the mirror back too… but hey you made it work and that is what counts. Or at least I think I understand about the broken part?

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  5. Julia, I love it! The powder room is one of those spaces where you can go bananas (in a good way) and make a small box of a room interesting. I love it, love it, did I say that already? xo Kristin

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  8. I love those walls. I saw the sharpie tutorial on Vintage Revivals and have been seriously considering doing something similar in my hallway. Looks amazing!

    Btw- My mom is the same way. ha! She eventually comes around when she sees the finished product, but during it….she hates it. lol

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  9. The room is so so much FUN! I love it!
    The Mom “Thing”! In my case…I’m the Mom and my Daughter is my biggest critic! She simply doesn’t “understand” my ideas! So funny, we get along great!
    Now I can’t wait for Friday!

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  10. I love the dots on the ceiling, what a nice surprise when you look up! The powder room is definitely the hardest room to take pictures of, that’s why I haven’t done it yet!

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  11. I love it! I love polka dots, especially gold ones. And I love bathrooms with a bit of quirk that pack some punch. It’s unexpected and refreshing especially for one of our home’s smallest spaces. Nice job!

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  14. Very pretty–you did a fantastic job eye-balling the dots on the ceiling!! (I am very bad at that sort of thing and everything ends up crooked haha)

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  17. I love it! It looks so fun! My mom always tells me not to do things and that it is stupid too! One time I told her I painted my foyer and hallway a goldish color (it was a goldish/tan color) and she said, “I can tell you right now that I won’t like it and never will”!!! She loved it and ended up using similar colors in her own home when she repainted! Mom’s can be funny!! (can’t we!!)

    Love you room!
    ~ Darlene

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  19. Wow, what a fun room! Love the stripes and dots too. But I really {heart} that mirror! Where did you find it? Thanks for stopping by Finding Fabulous the other day. I’ll be back 😉

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  23. Found your blog through 6th street design school and love it!!! And thanks for the awesome giveaway your bathroom is perfection !!

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  24. Hi, just discovered you blog today through 6th Street Design School. I love, love, love that you listen to your heart and go with what you love, not what anyone else thinks. That’s refreshing to see. So glad to find a new and exciting blog.

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  25. You did a great job, Julia! It looks like you doubled the space. It feels lighter and open. The combination of stripes and polka dots is so fun. LOVE the metallic gold too! 🙂

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  26. Love your powder room redo! I’m really loving mint and gold together lately as well. Love all the fun touches you added to your space. Thanks for stopping by my blog today – glad to have found yours. 🙂

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  29. I know I am oh so late on stopping by to officially comment, but I just LOVE the way this turned out. The contrast of the polka dots and the stripes is perfect and the mirror looks so great with it all. Super fun!

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  31. Hi Julia,
    My name is Elena and I am curating a collection of Sharpie projects for Looksisquare(dot)com. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Looksi but it’s a lot like CraftGawker: they display a thumbnail image from your blog along with a short description and a link back to your original project. Typically you would submit your own images (like you do on CraftGawker) but they also have curators (like myself) who do theme based round ups. I think this would be perfect for my collection which will be published this Friday. Please let me know if you *don’t* want it included so I can remove it.
    Thanks!!

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  32. Oh my gosh. In love. Seriously. Swoooooon.

    Do you mind if I ask how it’s holding up? I loveeee gold sharpie, but what I don’t love is how the metallic tends to fade weeks/months later leaving a flat grayish-greenish-goldish color behind. I’d love to do this in a nursery, but couldn’t live with myself if I did an entire 11ft wall just to see it go flat in a few months.

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    1. Hi Jess, so nice to meet you. I have to say that it is holding up really great! I wanted to take the risk since this is the cheapest wall treatment I have ever done, so if it goes bad, then I only wasted my time.

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  33. love those gold polka dots! it’s making me want to buy some for my girls’ ceiling in their shared bedroom…just scared that I’d never get them straight on the ceiling and that it would take forever!

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  34. Can I ask how did you do the stripes? I am struggling with how to measure them and how to get a long straight line. Thanks! Love love love the look.

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