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Pink Bathroom

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009




Yup. That is chunks of my bathroom wall falling off.

It is officially starting and I hate this part. The messy gross ugly part.

The pink is staying. We can’t afford a total rip-it-out to the studs and replace it all remodel. So, we are doing an aesthetic renovation. Changing a few minor things, painting, new lights, new hardware type of deal. Its like an HGTV show, except for hopefully not as blandly and poorly designed.

We are doing it cheap and simple. Lots of labor and lots of pink tile staying here forever…

Demo

Monday, March 31st, 2008

We’ve demolished a lot of stuff. Sticky, Nasty, Gross stuff.


(water damage under the fridge) (bees and sunflower contact paper, as well as some surprising patterns underneath)

The floors in the kitchen and both bathrooms have been removed, as well as the layers and layers and layers of contact paper in the cabinets. There were about 4 layers of vinyl tiles and laminate that took 3 days to rip up and still we could not get the original layer of 1950’s speckled linoleum up.


(the original linoleum – it had begun to disintegrate and turn to crumbly powder)

There is a lot of debris from everything we destroyed as well as 2 contractor bags full of sawdust from refinishing the floors.


(construction debris – we do not keep a clean job site -shame, shame, shame)


(the Youngstown steel kitchen cabinets, rusted and dented)

The cabinets are in decent shape, they are a little rusty and dented – some paint and Bondo will fix that!