Home Improvement

We're re-doing the bathroom. It has been an entire weekend of scraping, taping, painting, washing, shopping, and more painting. We ran into a few different "issues" that made it all more difficult that we'd imagined, but that's par for the course, right? We're almost done, but I don't quite have finished pictures yet. These are the "before"s and "During".

First, we took out the glass shower door, revealing an enormous amount of epoxy (moldy epoxy, at that) because the previous owners put the door too far over on the lip of the bathtub. Then, we put four plus layers of white paint on the ceiling to try to cover up the horrid dark blue (why? why? why?) that was there. It took a LOT of white paint. After that, we scraped more epoxy. Then, we installed a new shower curtain rod, one of the hotel types that are curved- we now have an enormous shower. Next, we taped up the walls and started in on the new blue to go over the turquoise and tropical fish on the walls. While the first layer of that dried, we scraped more epoxy. Then we screwed in some new lightbulbs- the previous ones were see-through and therefore cast really weird shadows on the wall (and burnt out your eyeballs if you looked directly at them). Now we have lovely opaque ones. Next, we painted another layer of the lovely dark periwinkle that we chose for the walls. Bye, bye tropical fish!! Finally, we yanked off the painter's tape.

&^%$#!!!!

The painter's tape unfortunately took the paint off too. So... rewind from "finally", had to put the tape back up and paint again. It was really, really infuriating and the resulting job isn't as pretty and precise as it could have been... but... ah, hell its an old bathroom, right?