Girl's Bedroom

In a bit of disarray, but here is the girl's bedroom. The first step was to remove the wallpaper from the walls. This involved using a round scrapper that tore up the paper all over the wall. Supposedly this was to help pull the paper off, but we seemed to run into more problems. In the end we found that just wetting the wall down and tearing at it seemed to work. After we ripped it all off, some of the drywall had been destroyed and needed repairing. We skimmed the wall with some drywall mud, and sanded it down a couple of times. Painted a pretty pink and installed a new chair rail all around the room. We painted the underside white and sealed the whole setup with some caulk. The bottom has since been painted purple.

Bathroom Remodel

UPDATE: I found the photos that I took on our first visit to the house, pre-purchase.



So, this was the first major undertaking in the new house. I will try to find the first photos we took of the house when we were hunting to help show how much this room was changed. Originally, the sink was huge and the cabinet left little room to walk in once the door was opened. The toilet stayed and we didn't change the tub. We did cover up the small hexagonal floor tiles with this birch hardwood. This required me filling the space of the old cabinet with a couple of sheets of plywood to get the new floor to flush out. We also had to modify the door transition strip to work. We painted the room a lively blue and added an oval mirror and eventually a cabinet over the toilet.

New House - sorta

Here it is, the new house. A lot has changed since we moved in, so I will try to recap and find photos for all the changes. In the future, I plan to catalog a lot of what we do here.