Holy wallpaper. And Hollywood Strip Lights. When we first moved into our new house, our bathrooms were BAD. I mean, bleh. Ben thought that maybe we could wait a while on taking down the wallpaper--at one point, he even asked, "Is there any room in the house where we could leave the wallpaper, just to save ourselves some work?" Um, no, Ben, there is NOT. Nowayinhell. So, we got to work on the bathrooms right away. They're livable now, but they're not done (Is anything ever done when you own a house? I'm starting to think no...). In fact, the upstairs bathroom is nowhere CLOSE to being done, but I still wanted to share both of them with you today, because I think you'll get a nice sense of satisfaction just from seeing the walls without all that horrendous wallpaper. It kind of scratches an itch. Lets take a look, shall we? BATHROOM #1: DOWNSTAIRS
BEFORE: AFTER/DURING: BATHROOM #2: UPSTAIRS
BEFORE (The worst wallpaper in the entire house! Why would anyone ever do this to a helpless bathroom?): AFTER/DURING: I cannot tell you how good it feels to be done removing wallpaper in this house. Fingers crossed that we will never have to remove wallpaper again, because wow, it is not fun. Not one iota.
Oh, and here's the tutorial that we used for replacing the light fixtures--until we ran into bigger problems and had to Google and YouTube and talk to our local Hardware Store about handling the wiring/install issues. Never a dull moment, that's for sure! As for the rest of our before + after/during pics, you're going to have to wait, as that's about it in terms of big home improvement projects that we've done since moving in. We hope to paint our bedroom this weekend (and finish the doors to our kitchen cabinets!), but things have been moving slowly lately, so we'll see... Hope you enjoyed this little peek into the new house! And thanks for all your sweet feedback re: last week's before + after pics! You guys are the BEST. A few years back me and the hubs decided to tackle replacing our shower faucet. It was the 4th of July and figured, how hard could it be?? Umm, it took us 4 hours and countless Youtube videos. We didn't even have the strength to go and watch fireworks. BUT, there was a real sense of accomplishments once we were speaking again ;)
Mary Catherine
3/25/2015 10:16:37 pm
Hahahahahaha! This is great. Thank you. And yes, tough home improvement projects = silly fights (that feel SO real in the moment!).
Kristin
3/25/2015 04:38:58 am
I can't get over how your sellers had such a strange combo of awesome tile, plumbing fixtures, and even vanities-- paired with that wallpaper. Perplexes me.
Mary Catherine
3/25/2015 10:17:33 pm
I know, isn't it INSANE?!?!?! Thank you for seeing that. So weird.
Marie
3/26/2015 10:53:20 pm
This looks FANTASTIC!! Well done! It's amazing how just even changing the wall color (or in your case removing that awful wallpaper and then painting) makes such a huge difference. Beautiful! Comments are closed.
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