Bathroom Update

When we went to bed Saturday night, Tim soaked the paint covered hinges in a water based paint stripper.

It worked pretty well on the part that was soaked.

Before we moved into our house, they textured the walls and did a horrible job. We have wanted to fix this but weren't sure how. Tim woke up Sunday morning on a mission to have smooth walls! He sanded the walls which worked really well. Then he primed and painted one part of the wall as a test. Thank you for the paint, Allison! Here is what it looks like:

The trim will go over the part on the right and cover up the holes you see. It looks much better without the texture but it was hard to get in a picture. I will take more pictures as we move onto more parts.

While Tim was working on the walls, I began the tedious process of stripping the trim. It is going to take a long time and lots of elbow grease but it will be so worth it. Here they are after 2-3 coats have been removed - only 2-3 more to go. Can you imagine our bathroom trim the pink color?


Here are some other projects we are also working on for the bathroom.

My mom gave us a cabinet she got from an antique store that has been cut for a vessel sink.


Today I bought this red sink on Ebay for 1/2 price!

This is a picture of the shower curtain that my mom got us for Christmas that we using as our color inspiration.

Now that we have started our first renovation/remodel in our house, we have been coming up with tons of other ideas - thanks largely to the This Old House magazines that Tim's dad has given us. We are interested in tiling the shower in place of the lovely plastic insert that we have currently. Since neither one of us know how to tile, it will be the last project of the bathroom. If anyone knows how to tile and wants to teach us how, please let me know.

We have really been enjoying working on the house! These projects are the reason that we bought this house and it is nice to actually get a project started. I guess I should be more excited when it is actually finished! If you anyone wants to come check it out in person (much better than pictures), you are always welcome. Don't worry we have another bathroom downstairs.

Honse Home Improvement, Inc.

We woke up this morning and decided it was finally time to do some real work on our house. Our sister, Allison, gave us some paint a couple of months ago which matches the new shower curtain and rug that my mom gave us for Christmas. Since we had paint and the bathroom is pretty small, it seemed like the best place to start.

We got our supplies and were ready to prime and paint. Next thing you know we have started taking apart the bathroom!

This was our light and medicine cabinet that we took off. They had a wood frame behind the medicine cabinet.


This is what it looks like now

Then we decided that if we were going to do this then we were going to do it right! Tim took off all of the baseboards, molding and even the door.

Here is the "finished" product

We are going to work on it some more tomorrow and will post updated pictures soon. We had a lot of fun today and are excited to finally work on our house!