everything she just said is true.
i am wonderful, thoughtful, intelligent, attractive and ... wait, i think she only said i had been working on the bathroom for the last 3 days. hmm, we need to work on the compliment giving a bit more around here. anywho, i have been working nonstop on the bathroom this week in an attempt to get everything with the house finished by Feb. 12, which will be the one-year-of-ownership mark. Sadly, I havent been able to chronicle it all with the lovely photos you have come to enjoy, because the camera pooped out. A new one is on the way and will hopefully be here by tomorrow or Saturday, though.
i got started by removing the ugly vanity over the sink/mirror and putting up a new one in its place. i also installed that hip exhaust fan/light that Double E posted the picture of. it was a bit of a chore because the attic is actually floored, so i had to pop-up one of the boards where the fan was going and one of the boards next to the steps where i needed to snake the wire through. i drilled a pilot hole next to the most centered joist to give me a rough idea of placement to view from within the bathroom and then once i determined where the fan needed to go in proximity to the hole, i drew the outline of the fan and cut through the drywall. once the fan was hooked up and everything was wired together, it pulled out the single switch in the wall and ran the fish tape up through the wall and a hole i bored in another support (it's not a joist, but i can't remember what its called this late at night - use your imagination - think thick piece of wood) with mucho help from Double E who held the tape for me. After I pulled everything back through the box, i installed a 3 way switch: one for the vanity light (and an outlet on the side of the mirror), one for the ceiling light, and one for the exhaust fan. pheeeeew. this took all night to do, but it looks perfect.
i had to wake up early the next morning because the old tub in the bathroom actually has one of those bath fitters tubs over the top of it and it was leaking water in from a poor seal job. the repair guy had to come and pull it up to let all the water drain, then lay it back down and reseal everything. sometimes you gotta call the pros, people. that night i cam home and removed all of the cheap plastic towel bars that were on the doors and scraped away all the area where the paint had chipped because of moisture. i also washed the nasty parts of the ceiling with some bleach water. i then primered everything in the bathroom: walls, cabinets and doors. all the wood was this awful off white color (i'll repost the old picture in the next post for a before and after so you can see what i'm talking about if you don't remember)after the primer dried, i went over the rough parts of the walls and ceiling with some drywall compound.
tonight when i got home i sanded down all the patches and then re-primered them. once it dried, i took a 6" piece of cardboard i ripped off the back of a pocketsize notebook and used that and a yardstick to measure out a grid of 6"x6" squares all over the wall (i still have one wall left to do - the mirror wall). i went ahead and assigned a number to each individual square (from 1 to 5), making sure that none of the same numbers touched each other on any two squares. The night before i purchased 4 quarts of paint - one of each color on a teal/turquoise color card, going from light to dark. I also have an old can of very faint turquoise (almost baby blue) that i will use as the fifth color. The result should be a random, monochrome grid like the picture that Double E posted. Yes, i still got my paintin skillz, even if i dont use 'em anymore.
hopefully, everything with the bathroom will be wrapped up by the end of this weekend. i don't plan on stopping until everything is done. really, almost everything i have left to do is painting related, so it shouldn't be too difficult to finish everything up.
stay tuned.
i got started by removing the ugly vanity over the sink/mirror and putting up a new one in its place. i also installed that hip exhaust fan/light that Double E posted the picture of. it was a bit of a chore because the attic is actually floored, so i had to pop-up one of the boards where the fan was going and one of the boards next to the steps where i needed to snake the wire through. i drilled a pilot hole next to the most centered joist to give me a rough idea of placement to view from within the bathroom and then once i determined where the fan needed to go in proximity to the hole, i drew the outline of the fan and cut through the drywall. once the fan was hooked up and everything was wired together, it pulled out the single switch in the wall and ran the fish tape up through the wall and a hole i bored in another support (it's not a joist, but i can't remember what its called this late at night - use your imagination - think thick piece of wood) with mucho help from Double E who held the tape for me. After I pulled everything back through the box, i installed a 3 way switch: one for the vanity light (and an outlet on the side of the mirror), one for the ceiling light, and one for the exhaust fan. pheeeeew. this took all night to do, but it looks perfect.
i had to wake up early the next morning because the old tub in the bathroom actually has one of those bath fitters tubs over the top of it and it was leaking water in from a poor seal job. the repair guy had to come and pull it up to let all the water drain, then lay it back down and reseal everything. sometimes you gotta call the pros, people. that night i cam home and removed all of the cheap plastic towel bars that were on the doors and scraped away all the area where the paint had chipped because of moisture. i also washed the nasty parts of the ceiling with some bleach water. i then primered everything in the bathroom: walls, cabinets and doors. all the wood was this awful off white color (i'll repost the old picture in the next post for a before and after so you can see what i'm talking about if you don't remember)after the primer dried, i went over the rough parts of the walls and ceiling with some drywall compound.
tonight when i got home i sanded down all the patches and then re-primered them. once it dried, i took a 6" piece of cardboard i ripped off the back of a pocketsize notebook and used that and a yardstick to measure out a grid of 6"x6" squares all over the wall (i still have one wall left to do - the mirror wall). i went ahead and assigned a number to each individual square (from 1 to 5), making sure that none of the same numbers touched each other on any two squares. The night before i purchased 4 quarts of paint - one of each color on a teal/turquoise color card, going from light to dark. I also have an old can of very faint turquoise (almost baby blue) that i will use as the fifth color. The result should be a random, monochrome grid like the picture that Double E posted. Yes, i still got my paintin skillz, even if i dont use 'em anymore.
hopefully, everything with the bathroom will be wrapped up by the end of this weekend. i don't plan on stopping until everything is done. really, almost everything i have left to do is painting related, so it shouldn't be too difficult to finish everything up.
stay tuned.
posted by rainbows_unicorns_and_crystalmeth | 10:40 PM
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