Bathroom Redo

Our bathroom was a sad mess when we bought this house. Someone had tried to use some sort of a technique to texture the walls with paint were it was a grooved disaster. They had oddly placed lights around the mirror.

We had attempted to sand the grooved texture off the walls but it was way to difficult. Then we got out the scrapper and the heat gun and i went to town on it.

This is after we took down the scratched up bead board, dry-walled in the holes left behind from the oddly placed light fixtures and i went to work with the heat gun.

Today after my husband got home from work we started in working on it again. About an hour into it i said to my husband 'I think i know why they did this to the wall' The wall we were discovering as we took off the paint was terribly uneven. They did a horrible job drywalling and someone had done a terrible drywall patching job as well. 'They did it to hide the crappy walls'
Chances were huge that we would spend all this time scrapping and sanding only to paint it and be left with something that still looks terrible.
I then began to talk and brain storm about what we could do to fix this whole thing. We decided that what needed to be done was to cover to the wall completely so we stopped and got on the computer for some ideas.

Here was our inspirations:

The bead board will go up about 70in and then there will be a ledge all the way around for picture and nik-nak display. All that will be in white. Then we bought (not sure what it's called) but it's like the same stuff as bead board but without all the grooves it's just flat. That will be put above to give us a nice even surface.

Our design and color is going to be off of this soap dish i picked up on clearance.

Top part of the wall is going to be something like this:

I'm excited! Hubby already has the baseboard trim cut and it's ready to paint. I think it's going to be a late night!