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Another thought...try to use that bathroom corner for clothing by setting up a garment rack with shelving on top. I need the ceiling height! Still, there's room for some stuff there. If this is a no-go, stack a tall rack that holds plastic boxes. These are only 18" deep but can hold a ton and are customizable. For the kitchen, get a couple old base cabinets and paint them. (Restore has them cheap). Make a sawhorse arrangement with them by spacing them as far apart as your kitch will allow and put a couple of 1" boards over top to make a then tabletop which can also be an office and an ironing board. Barstools go under.

How about taking a whole wall or the bottom half of a wainscotted one and decoupaging some period sheet music, Dick and Jane books, coloring books, cookbook, newspaper, maybe your own picture or story pages - copies or originals if you can find something not valuable? I'd make sure the pages were overlapped in a haphazard way or you could line them up. Be mindful of the pics if you use the: copy them in a large enough scale. Then, paint out the rest of the room in a color that goes with that bedroom or a more mid-century one. How about turquoise for the joyful-ness or yellow, red, or even a wonderful green apple? I'd take a color that matches the tones of the papers. Are they sepia? Now for the hardware. Why bother replacing it if you are just going to replace it again when you redo it? Leave it but get some really great knobs. I'd love to see a colored copy of the Dick and Jane storybooks the wall across from the toilet - instant bathroom reading!
Or wallpaper it. :). Good luck!