...we needed to have one fully functional bathroom in the house...right...so with all three bathrooms in different states of remodeling...we decided to focus on the 'littlest room in the house'...we have a friend from Britain who calls the bathroom that...we think it's so cute...
...this bathroom was pretty hideous when we moved in...burgundy carpet...and what can only be described as bar code wallpaper...it kinda makes you dizzy to stay in this room very long...
...makes you wonder what they were thinking when they chose this wallpaper and carpet?...
...and as often happens in older houses like this one...(our house will be 50 years old next year - I think we'll have a birthday party for her...if she's feeling up to it...HA!)...the wallpaper was put up directly on the bare sheetrock...
...so when we pulled the wallpaper off the walls...of course...we pulled off some of the sheetock paper as well...ARGHHH!!!...I really don't think I like wallpaper very much...
...so we broke open a new bucket of spackling...or mud...or joint compound...whatever you want to call it...
...and got to work putting a skim coat over the entire wall...being thankfull all the time that this is a small room...but thinking ahead to the other two bathrooms which will undoubtably need this treatment as well...
...first skim coat finished...
...followed by a lot of sanding...
...I'll have more bathroom updates over the next few days...
...wishing you a lovely start to your week!...
Haha. Barcode is an apt discription of that wallpaper. Thanks for sharing your hard work. You make it look so fun. ;) We are doing house maintenance, too. I let my husband do most of it, since he loves house repair projects.
ReplyDeleteAh, sanding walls. I never thought that I would find anything good from developing asthma in my 50's, but when I discovered that the dust from plaster sanding is not good for asthmatics, there it was, a bright side!
ReplyDeleteA neat trick to remove wallpaper easily ~ put some of the drywall mud on it, it soaks in and then scraps off super easy! You could scratch the wallpaper up before hand if you want. Maybe then the sheetrock underneath would be in better condition?
ReplyDeletewho would'a thought that skills we acquired 30 years ago would bring such joy...lol! love, k
ReplyDeleteSo much work!
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