Pseudo bathroom makeover
With Clint being ridiculously busy in preparation for his show, I realized this weekend I either drown Clint in a cacophony of “I’m bored”, or I could figure out a way to keep myself busy. With less than three months away from the big due date you may be asking “Is she finally getting around to the nursery?” In short, the answer to that is no, for a variety of reasons. As much as I want to get it done, it is by far the most complicated room with needs ranging from electrical to wood stripping, all of which lie outside my area of expertise or outside the range of safety for me to take part in while pregnant. Much of that will wait until after Clint’s big show, which is now only a little more than a week away.
Instead I turned my sights to the crowning jewel of hideousness in our house- the bathroom. We have long been holding out on doing anything to this area for several reasons, the most critical being that we loathe doing anything (and spending the money on something) twice. As many of you know, in the bathroom lies the water heater- walled in like the ancient artifact it is. It’s long past it’s prime so we’ve literally been waiting for the whole thing to go. At that point we’re planning on putting a tankless heater in the crawlspace, and rearranging to the floorplan in a much more usable manner. We’ll also address issues like the lack of a ventilation fan for the humidity, the area where floor slopes towards the water heater because of it’s weight, and the subfloor where the toilet has sunken into it. As you can see this is not a small job.
When we moved into the house almost a year ago I was planning on doing a quick and dirty makeover. Pull down the wallpaper which was literally held up by thumbtacks, paint the walls white, and live with it until the water heater necessitated otherwise. Like many projects with the house, I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into until the paper came down. It took with it layers of paint in some areas, the drywall paper in others, and it left behind its backing in bits and pieces. Any attempts to remedy this resulted in losing more drywall paper, which ultimately has to be mudded over before painting. Not wanting to put the effort into something we know we’re going to gut, we left it and have been living with it for a year, affectionately referring to it as our “meth lab”.
Flash forward to this weekend where I was a. threatened with boredom, and b. probably going through some early nesting. In short I decided to take on what we’re calling our “ghetto makeover”. I’ll wait for details until I can post pictures and I get the last few pieces wrapped up, but all in all I will say, it looks much better, although to be fair, there’s almost nothing I could have done to make it look worse.
Instead I turned my sights to the crowning jewel of hideousness in our house- the bathroom. We have long been holding out on doing anything to this area for several reasons, the most critical being that we loathe doing anything (and spending the money on something) twice. As many of you know, in the bathroom lies the water heater- walled in like the ancient artifact it is. It’s long past it’s prime so we’ve literally been waiting for the whole thing to go. At that point we’re planning on putting a tankless heater in the crawlspace, and rearranging to the floorplan in a much more usable manner. We’ll also address issues like the lack of a ventilation fan for the humidity, the area where floor slopes towards the water heater because of it’s weight, and the subfloor where the toilet has sunken into it. As you can see this is not a small job.
When we moved into the house almost a year ago I was planning on doing a quick and dirty makeover. Pull down the wallpaper which was literally held up by thumbtacks, paint the walls white, and live with it until the water heater necessitated otherwise. Like many projects with the house, I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into until the paper came down. It took with it layers of paint in some areas, the drywall paper in others, and it left behind its backing in bits and pieces. Any attempts to remedy this resulted in losing more drywall paper, which ultimately has to be mudded over before painting. Not wanting to put the effort into something we know we’re going to gut, we left it and have been living with it for a year, affectionately referring to it as our “meth lab”.
Flash forward to this weekend where I was a. threatened with boredom, and b. probably going through some early nesting. In short I decided to take on what we’re calling our “ghetto makeover”. I’ll wait for details until I can post pictures and I get the last few pieces wrapped up, but all in all I will say, it looks much better, although to be fair, there’s almost nothing I could have done to make it look worse.
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