house: Down The Rabbit Hole

The last 57 times I've checked the weather forecast for my days off (Wednesday through Saturday) it predicted the same thing: sunny or mostly sunny all four days and not a chance of rain. This is good paint-scraping weather. I will be scraping paint. I will. Honest.

But while I'm scraping paint, I'll be thinking about what to do with my bathroom floor. Right now it looks like this:

It's not horrible, but I don't like it. Also, it's been there for a couple of decades by my estimate and it looks pretty dingy, even right after I scrub it. (Which, admittedly, hasn't happened in a while.)

Now, this is where I stop to make y'all aware of something: Milah is a genius. And an enabler. A genius enabler. Or, an enabling genius. Either way, she's really smart. She thinks of things I wouldn't, and then she tells me about them so that I start to think about them too. Milah suggested vinyl plank flooring, which is water-resistant, durable, and inexpensive. I like it. I had about decided on this for the bathroom floor:

TrafficMaster in Hickory
Image via HomeDepot.com

It would look really good against the white beadboard (which I will tell you more about later) and the robin-egg-blue walls. It reminds me of this inspiration photo I pinned to one of my Pinterest boards about a year ago.

See more gorgeousness at House of Turquoise

I like that floor...but I don't love it. Then I remembered that Milah had also said it's possible to paint vinyl floors. I googled images of that and fell down into a very large rabbithole. Now I'm in love with the idea of painting the ugly vinyl floor in my bathroom. These are my favorites:

Love the fishscale and the colors.
Image via Lovely Crafty Home

I like that the stencil looks like a bigger version of
hex tile. I'm not brave enough to use this leaf green color.
Image via Apartment Therapy

This is actually painted subfloor, but it would
work on vinyl as well. I adore the stencil but
is it too busy for my little bathroom?
Image via Lovely Etc.

That last image led me to the Cutting Edge Stencils website, which has tons of gorgeous stencils that would work on floors as well as walls. (Another rabbithole, right there.)

So what do y'all think? Should I go with vinyl plank or paint the bathroom floor? Which stencil would you go with? Colors?