Day 351 of 2024

I'm prepping these walls for painting by filling holes 

and sanding the edges off the painted stars and stripes. 

I spy a mistake I made when I originally painted. 

Can you see it too?

 

Day 277 of 2023

I'm getting another estimate today 

so the bathroom project can progress.

 

Day 19 of 2023

I'm a little behind on the bathroom project, 

but all the holes are filled  

and some strategies and decisions were made today. 

I'm feeling good about it.

 

Day 16 of 2023

One of my tasks for today was to remove the mirror from the wall 

to make wall prep before painting easier. 

Fireball helped with this job as it was quite heavy. 

Once I went back into the room, 

I found this which has been hiding behind the mirror. 

The top picture is one of many practice pieces I found in that space. 

The bottom picture is the final painting that is on the wall above the closet door. 

This particular one was done by T-bone and according to his signature, 

the artwork, and the bathroom, was done in 1999, almost 25 years ago. 

While it's sad to see all this go, it is high time the room got an update. 

I'll be posting lots of pictures of the current bathroom, 

the process and the finished room 

on More Curiously when I take breaks in the actual working on it. 

I'll link posts when they go up.

 

Day 288 of 2020

Progress is happening slowly. 

I find decision making hard these days.

 

Day 119 of 2020

First I'd like to apologize for the blurry photo. 

Normally I would find something else to photograph to avoid posting this, 

but I felt like the tip was important enough to just go with it. 

So here's the story.  

These drawers to the vanity have runners 

that extend about four inches past the back of the drawer. 

This makes it difficult to paint the drawer fronts as they won't stand up. 

I thought I would just get them up off the ground a little bit 

and Fireball brought out this wooden pallet from the garage.  

This gave me the room to stand the drawers up 

with the extended runners down between the slats, 

but it still wasn't very steady.  

One drawer fell over and caught under the slat at this angle. 

What a great accident this turned out to be. 

They are very steady in this position

 and makes it quite easy to do the necessary painting.

Day 118 of 2020

This is a "before" picture. 

I thought I should document this so I can compare 

once the transformation is complete. 

Do you remember the new tile in our bathroom? 

This is a continuation of that project. 

I was having a really hard time finding a vanity 

with my preferred configuration of drawers and doors, 

in a size that would work, in anything available new or used. 

One day while I was looking through the for sale items on Nextdoor, 

I happened on this. 

It is exactly what I had been looking for, 

and since I didn't want the countertop, I got it for a great bargain price. 

Someone else's trash from a bathroom renovation 

will become the "new" vanity in my renovation.

Day 71 of 2020

The tiling in our bathroom was finished last Friday. 

I finally got a chance to clean all the grit away today, 

and like many quilters might, 

I love the hexagons we chose for the niches.

Day 62 of 2020

New plumbing. 

Progress.

Day 47 of 2020

I finally got back to this bathroom today

and found a similar situation under the switch plate. 

As I worked on the sanding that was needed, 

I also was reminded of the problem that stumped me many years ago

 which brought this project to a screeching halt the first time we attempted it. 

I am trying to think outside the box for a solution

 as it cannot remain unfinished this time.  

Wish me luck.  I'll post pictures.

Day 43 of 2020

It's time to really work on this bathroom

 in preparation for our tile work that begins next week. 

I'd like to get a coat of primer, and possibly a coat or two of paint, 

on the walls before then. 

Years ago when we painted these stripes, 

we removed the in-wall medicine cabinet 

and hung a large mirror on the wall in its place. 

We never got the hole patched up, and from the looks of it, 

I never took the mirror down to dust the wall. 

It never even occurred to me. 

It's clean now and ready for me to do a little sanding on those stripe edges tomorrow

and then on to primer and paint.

Day 23 of 2020

One small decision should not be this overwhelming.