We gave Madison’s tiny bathroom a mini makeover including installing a new ventilation fan with stereo bluetooth speakers and LED lights! This small bathroom had no storage space and very little counter space for all her…stuff. Adding to the clutter was a bluetooth speaker because, well, this girl likes to listen to music ALL THE TIME. So the new fan/light/speaker and some easy DIY shelves on the blank wall was just the ticket!
This post and giveaway is sponsored by Homewerks Worldwide.
I started this makeover by tearing out the old fan light. The bathroom fans in this house are all the same, super super loud – plus they rattle! So I didn’t shed a tear about getting rid of that ugly thing. The new fan box is slightly larger than the old one so I had to cut out a little more ceiling sheetrock. I used my handy oscillating tool for that.
Hey, here’s a tip. Put your new fan and tool belt up through the hole instead of carrying it with you while you tiptoe through the dark, scary attic!
The rest of the fan box installation happened in the attic and I don’t have pics but you can watch the Homewerks installation video for that. I will warn you: it’s not a simple installation. You have to run new speaker wire from your fan to your switch. So you might want to hire an electrician if you’re not really comfortable doing electrical work. The instruction manual that came with my product was a bit confusing but I found updated instructions here that helped clear things up a bit.
The wall switch allows you control the LED white light, LED nightlight, fan and Bluetooth functions from the wall PLUS there is a waterproof remote that lets you control your music while in the shower. There’s even a suction cup wall mount to keep it handy.
It sounds GOOD too! I was really surprised at how good it sounds. It has two stereo speakers which are integrated directly into bath fan wiring, so there’s no need to recharge.
The trim is almost flush to the ceiling and this fan is QUIET! (1.5 Sones if you’re speak technical jargon.) AND, while is super duper quiet, the fan generates 90 CFM of air movement. It was so quiet when I turned it on I was convinced it wasn’t doing anything so I tested the suction!
As you can see the regular light color is white. But can select a blue LED nightlight which is kinda funky cool.
The next part of our little makeover was building and installing the floating shelves.
I’ve written tutorials on that before so this time I made a video!
Much better! This product is available at Home Depot for $160.
And Homewerks Worldwide is giving away ONE speaker/light/fan with a bonus $100 Home Depot gift card!
To enter for a chance to win, simply leave a comment on this blog post and click the box in the Rafflecoper thingy! US residents only.
Can you change the light to purple?
No, it only changes from white or blue.
Well, then it’s useless!!!! LOL
LOL That would be cool though!
I love the idea of multitasking (I try, but have not yet mastered said concept) so a product that does that for me is fantastic.
Awesome! Love the exhaust light.
This would be perfect in our second bathroom. It currently has four 4ft fluorescent tube lights and it is a tiny bathroom. This would make our bathroom look more like a bathroom and less like an office.
That would be amazing to have. When me teenage stepson is spending too much time in the bathroom, I can turn my Bluetooth on and play the Jeopardy song in the bathroom without having to feel awkward knocking on the door.
This sounds like a perfect replacement for my old bathroom fan!
Wish I had room to run wires for speakers. Barely had room for the tiny electrical box we fit and the wires are tight! What a fun idea!
Have you seen those extra deep junction boxes? I hate cramming wires into junction boxes.
Love the integration! And another use for my new favorite tool (the oscillating tool)!
I just LOVE This! The floating shelves are awesome and that light is killer! I would love to have one in my bathroom 🙂
I need this! Only dilemma is whether to put it my girl’s bathroom or keep for myself!
My fans are so loud I would not cry over tossing them either. I know the sound! The bathroom looks great. Great installation too!
I’ve never seen that speaker/light/fan combo. What a great find!
I really like that fan. My bathrooms are due for an update. Especially the fan. Great job on the shelves and fan.
A quiet fan that plays music – yes please!!
This looks pretty neat, I love smarthome type of stuff!
Awesome Light and Fan Kit. My wife always complains about the noise from the downstairs fan. Plus it has no light. This seems like the perfect solution. Thanks for the info!
This is awesome! We were just talking about this with our oldest that just moved into her own place just the other night. The boys loved the idea of having a speaker in the bathroom.
I need one of these fans 🙂
Oh, and great video! I love floating shelves.
Thanks!
This is really cool. Would love to have one in the main bath. Thanks.
I love the floating shelves, need to get some!
I need a new bathroom fan and I really love this one.
This would be perfect for my daughter’s room also. Tiny bathroom and music is ALWAYS on 🙂
Awesome article and giveaway! I’ve never heard of Homewerks Worldwide – so thanks for the introduction! I love finding out about new products and innovative web sites. I shop at Home Depot – a lot – so it’s always good to find out that they carry a new product!
that is the coolest light!!
Love the light and the shelves!! Looks amazing!
Mama needs a new fan…!
I ended up putting 2 comments on the FB post so will repeat here! Madison’s bathroom looks so fresh and organized – a look I love! I’ve been looking at that fan for about a year! What fun!
Thank you for your comments Guerrina! I love reading them.
Super mini-makeover!!! My bathroom is original from the build in 1976…. need I say more! The plastic fan is a lovely shade of aged white plastic which has turned yellow. No attic there so installation could be interesting. lol Thanks for all the details too!
I love the way this turned out! We are in the market for a new fan in our bathroom, this looks perfect!
Great upgrade ideas that we can do ourselves. Thanks for the video how-tos!
That light would be perfect for my grand daughters bathroom!
WOO HOO!!! Party in the bathroom for the lucky winner!
Cool ! I love one !!! I’m with your girl, music always !!! and I am 55 !!!
I’ll be loving music until I’m 103! LOL
You always do just an awesome job. I love the light and the floating shelves.
We must have the same old fan!!! Ours is loud and rattles, and speeds up then slows down. Until I read this, replacing ours wasn’t even on my radar. It is now 🙂 Thanks for the video, too. Another project in the next couple of weeks to do!
Where has this fan been all my life? I can’t stand loud fans and having a speaker? That’s a great idea!
My daughter loves to listen to music while in the shower. What a great idea to have the speaker in the ceiling so that she could use her iphone to play music. Thanks for the information!
That is so awesome! I’m always propping up my ipad while I’m in the shower. Then I can hardly hear it when I’m actually in there. This is on my list!! Your daughter must love the shelf space. Great mini makeover.
She does! She’s used that speaker every day since it went in. (Which makes me feel like I did good. LOL)
I want one of those fan/light/speaker thingys! Awesome work
What a great idea!
Looks awesome! We need to update the fans in our house and this looks much nicer, functions better and with a bonus speaker!!!
new to your channel but loving it so far!
Welcome! Thanks for joining me. 😀
I need myself a handy girl like you!
LOL Or…you know…just be the handy person yourself? 😀
That is great! Always enjoy your projects. Gets me motived for my own. Going to be starting a bathroom myself in the fall.
I think my cred with my nieces would skyrocket if I installed this fan in my guest bathroom! My hubby would be thrilled by the LED (we’re slowly switching over to LEDs). I understand, and care about, sones and CFM, so that makes this fan even better! Thanks for offering it up to us. BTW – per your recommendation in a previous post, I bought the drywall sander that you attach to your shop vac. WOW! It works great! Thanks Sandra! P.S. the shelves look great and really add to the space. Are you planning to paint the cabinet? Have a great weekend!
I’m glad you like that drywall tool. It makes a world of difference. I probably will paint that cabinet because I can’t stand it even though I’m going to tear this whole bathroom out eventually so I don’t want to do TOO much. But, what’s a little painting job going to set me back? Yes. I’m going to do it. LOL
Perfect timing!!! I’m just about to have to redo BOTH a (very small) full main bathroom and a powder bath – both in need of storage and one in need of a bath fan!
Every girl needs music in the shower.
That’s really cool!
What a cool fixture! And I like the shelves, I need to do that in my small master bath, it has no storage.
How neat. I’ve never seen a speaker/light combo before.
Great bathroom redo! Love it! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Wow, only 1.5 Sones and it does all the other stuff too? Want.
I totally need a new fan and light in our bathroom. This would be awesome!
I might have to buy this fan if I don’t win it!!
I have the perfect place for some of those floating shelves. Thank you.
This looks fun. I need 4. 🙂
I would love 2 of these. Both of my bathrooms are in the middle of the house and have no windows. Like yours, my fans are old and noisy. I need more circulation and more light. Would so love to have this in my bathrooms and my son could do the instillation. I’m just a little too old to be climbing around in my attic. BTW, I absolutely love you blog. I visit it daily to check for new posts.
Thank you so much for being a loyal reader Wanda! Love hearing that. 😀
How hard is it to instal a bathroom vent is you dont already have one?
Oh my, with this product, my daughter will NEVER get out of the shower! LOL. What a great idea!
I love this fan!!! But I am afraid of the wiring (it really helps that I have a brother-in-law who is an electrician)!!!
Lucky you!
So cool! I totally need this
What an awesome product! That would be fabulous in my boys’ bathroom. It needs a fan!
Thank you for your guidance.
That looks great. Good work on the update for her bathroom. I hope she is happy with it.
She is. She really enjoys her bathroom now which is great for me because she has been using MINE for weeks. Maybe why I spent time on her little makeover even though it’s only temporary.
My 12 year old granddaughter would love this! She loves to listen to her music while she’s getting ready in the mornings.
Nice, I need one of these in my bathroom
Wow! You never cease to amaze me! What an amazing bathroom make over! Way to go!!!
Thank you Gloria!
Wow!!! Thanks for sharing!
I love the floating shelves! What a great idea!
Those floating shelves are so cute! Makes me want to add some to my bathroom 🙂
And the light is SUPER coolď
Goodness … *cool!
Love, Love, Love the light and shelves!
ME ME!!
What a great idea. Would be nice to replace our noisy fan with a much quieter unit.
Would love my bath to turn pink!
I bet someday they will offer one that you can change to all different colors. This one is white or blue. No pink. 🙁
Looks awesome!
That’s an awesome light and the shelves look great too.
A quiet fan would be heaven 🙂
Love the fan; has an awesome lava lamp, disco ball kinda vibe going’ on 😉
OMG I was looking for this exact product a year ago when I was remodeling my bathroom! I was wondering is one existed and I couldn’t find anything. That is great!
That nightlight really is kinda funky cool! I love the idea of a silent fan… lol
Looks great!!
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I love my Homewerks Bluetooth exhaust fan. But I bought it awhile ago–and it doesn’t have the cool LED light!
I’d just be happy with a fan that doesn’t leak 🙁 We’re due for a new roof this summer!
Leaky roof? No fun! Sorry. 🙁
I have a fan/light that needs replacing. The fan sounds like a jet engine!
That’s how I feel about the one in my water closet! I thought about installing this one in there…but, you know, it’s a water closet. It is seriously THE worst of all the bad fans in this house though. LOL
I would love a quieter fan in my bathroom. Thanks for the how-to!
This is worth figuring out how to install it!
It is. It was pretty frustrating but now that it’s in it’s really cool!
That is awesome, love the blue LED light. Nice job Sandra
I have a fan/light combination that needs replacing. It’s sounds like a jet engine!
Too cool!! Will have to check this out. The house we moved into needs them changed & my daughter has music playing ALL. THE. TIME. TOO.
I love your work! This fan is so cool. Wish it came in more colors but maybe one day, right?
Inevitably. Probably just when we replace all ours! LOL
Wow, super cool. I’d love to surprise my husband with this!
My daughter would love this!!
Great updates. Your videos always make it so much easier for a novice DIYer like myself. Thanks Sandra.
Thank you Judy! It’s so nice to hear that.
Ok, I’m going to need four of these…. nice!
Would love something quiet. You definitely know when our current fan is running.
That’s pretty nice. Thanks for having the drawing.
What perfect timing! Our bathroom fan is in serious need of replacement! Amenities think I might build those floating shelves today!
Amazing! This would make singing in the shower infinitely more epic!!!
I kinda want to be a blind fly on the wall of your shower one day. ‘Cause I think I should hear this Musical Epicness at least once in my life!
That fan/light/speaker is so cool, and I love the finished bathroom!!
Definitely going on my to do list!
We need one of these.
My husband would love this!
Love the idea of a speaker in the bathroom… the night light rocks! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love the fan light. Need to change out our fan so we will be looking at this! Thanks!
Great job….Home Depot – my favorite retail store!
I really need a new light/fan in the master bath shower area. And music, or anything else you can stream, like your favorite radio station, would be a great addition!
Well, I think most built in fans could be replaced with that one! Amazing quiet!
And as always, thanks for the tute on the shelves – makes me want to build the garage so I can make them. Either that or pay a friend for time in his shop!
That looks so cool! This is something my husband would like – he is all about the Bluetooth!
Love this!
We need a new bathroom fan SOOO bad! Ours is about 20 yrs old and very loud. Thank you for the chance to win this one!
Love this light and speaker.
If I got this, my teenagers would NEVER leave the bathroom! Seriously, though, this would be a lovely addition to their bathroom.
Would love to add this to my extra bath.
This would be perfect over our master bath pooper 🙂
We have this same exact van in our new bathroom, we love it!!
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Awesome!
I love how this looks what a nice great improvement
This would be great to win!
I love the idea! How nice it would be to soak in a nice tub listening to some soft music….. or remodeling the bedroom and playing music from the bathroom! LOL Great idea!
Thanks,
Looks great! I really need to upgrade my bathroom.
I’m in love with your videos! You make everything seem so easy and fun which motivates me to re-do some things around my house!
What a great idea for a bathroom mini makeover! Love the light!
Love this fan
Well, I would officially be the coolest mom ever to put this in the kids’ bathroom. Right now I’m just unofficially the coolest mom ever!!!!
this is such a good idea and would be perfect in my kids’ bathroom! They love to dance during dance time 🙂
We have NO fan in our master bath so we could definitely use one of these!
Awesome fan/speaker combo. Need that…
This is an awesome idea, I think I might just steal it for my bathroom! Thanks for all your videos by the way. I have done a lot of projects you’ve shown here with your videos as guidance. People can’t believe it was me who remodeled (work in progress) our home, so I can only imagine the reactions you must get from people who don’t know you. Keep up the awesome vids 🙂 Thank you!
This would be an Awesome addition to my current bathroom remodel!
That would be great in my bath!
And, I love the haircut!
Who knew they made such a thing.
Oh I would really REALLY love to win this one! We have the absolute perfect place for it!
I like how simple it was yet how much you got out of it.
Sawdustgirl! (aka Sandra) I am SO happy to have happened upon your blog today 🙂 I am a first time home owner…just closed on my home last week and a single gal. I quickly became overwhelmed with my new “house to do list.” My hope is to someday become really comfortable taking care of home projects on my own! That’s where you come in!!! Any products you post, I’d love to know the brand and where to purchase them. Thanks again for being so AWESOME and sharing your wisdom 🙂
Very nicely done, Sandra!
I love the idea of the new ventilation fan. I need one quite badly in my tiny, tiny bathroom. Glad I found this website!
Love the blue night light option. Much less shocking when you’re stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Need this in my life.
Like the idea of a Bluetooth speaker in the bathroom fan. Also, the tip about the tools through the ceiling is a good one.
Ooh, very cool. Does it last forever or do you have to replace it once the lights die?
I’m getting ready to gut our bathroom and this would be an awesome add!!
Love reading your blog!
Looking to update the current bathroom fan to one with a light in the hallway bathroom. This would be a nice/cool change all around!
Thanks! Luv the tips and tricks you offer!
I love this idea! It has to go in my bathroom.
What a great idea! My daughter would be in heaven!
Would love this for our kids bathroom! Luckily, it’s on the second floor so getting to all the wiring wouldn’t be a huge deal.
I would love to win this!
I love the light.I did not know they made this.
This looks great. I need a replacement for our master bath.
Love this!
now this is the kind of bathroom my 13 yr old daughter would enjoy. She also has to have a speaker and her iPhone near so she can listen to music all the time, even in the shower. Love the light with the speaker and nightlight features. Those floating shelves look great too, definitely going to think about putting some in.
that light is pretty cool! my kids would really enjoy that in their bathroom
Just wondering…would the process be any different if I was drilling it into tiles rather than sheetrock?
You can certainly drill into tile with a special bit. You would definitely want to hit a stud behind the tile though to support the shelf.
Love it. Goes great in a teens bathroom! Wishes…