Bathroom Renovation

Hello All,

I know, I know... It's been a long while since I've blogged... something like 3 Months of not blogging, but I'M BACK!

I'm going to start this story with a perceived leak in the master bathroom's shower. We stopped using it for a short while and began using the guest bathroom. I was walking out of the shower and saw a spot where the ugly ugly wallpaper was starting to peel. This is what the beautiful wallpaper looked like (it was also textured and painted over when we bought the place).


I love love love peeling things, paint... paper... and well if someone has a sun burn... I'll leave it at that. So, I started peeling the wallpaper off the wall... only to find, more wallpaper. There was a lovely blue, pink, and while flowery pattern on the layer underneath.

After I started working I found that the best way to do this was to use a razor blade and peel the layers off as best I could. After the first layer, it looked something like this:


There is another layer of the pink/blue stuff underneath all this. We also removed the ugly brassy fixtures, we'll talk more about this later.

I removed both layers and all was left was the backing to the second layer, using that blue nasty gel stuff, I was able to remove the backing and glue from the wall. It was all quite magical.

All the while, we have removed the large plane mirror and the fixtures. There were large, aggravating, and damaging wall anchors... I guess the previous people though they were going to hang weights on these fixtures. They were old, metal and left huge holes in our walls. They looked something like this:


Latin teacher and Spanish teacher worked to patch the walls (the putty was pink, although it dried while) so he's going to sand it and do it all again before I can prime and paint. I'm thinking of using This Color... it is a small room, but I'm planning on having a mirror ($10 from Goodwill) with a white frame and the cabinets are white as well. So we'll see.


It's obviously really really dark, so obviously I'm scared to paint it that, but we'll see.

There is still more to do, always is, and so I'll work on posting an update as soon as we, well do more work :)