Yesterday, I shared my resolution on what I plan to do with the doorways within the again entry of the studio. Should you missed that, you can read out it here. Since my thought is a bit more sophisticated than simply buying a quart of paint and portray a couple of doorways, I’m giving myself time to determine precisely learn how to go about getting the look I need. So within the meantime, I made a decision to perform a little demolition on the studio half rest room to get it prepared for its new wallpaper.
However now I’m within the course of of constructing some adjustments in order that the toilet will movement higher with my new imaginative and prescient for my studio. I’ve already repainted the vainness, painted the ground, and designed a brand new wallpaper that may go on the partitions. That wallpaper seems like this…
So when that is completed, the toilet will find yourself being each bit as colourful as it’s now, however I feel it is going to coordinate significantly better with what’s happening in the primary a part of the studio.
A couple of weeks in the past, I made a decision to interchange the yellow accent tile with a reed-type design utilizing dowel rods. I spent a whole lot of time eradicating the yellow tiles in half of the toilet, after which reducing and sanding items of dowel rods and gluing them to the wall.
That was a enjoyable challenge, and I’d like to see it accomplished, however I made a decision that it simply wasn’t proper for this rest room. So final night time, I spend a while popping these off of the wall with a bit of 5-inch prybar.
I began out utilizing my warmth gun to melt the glue earlier than prying them off, however that turned out to be actually messy and sticky. I discovered that there was really no must warmth the glue earlier than eradicating the dowels. They popped off the wall fairly simply and cleanly with out using the warmth gun.
The identical can’t be mentioned for the yellow tiles, although. The half of the room through which I had already taken the yellow tiles off of the partitions had three large gouges within the drywall from me prying these tiles off of the wall. I didn’t trouble patching them earlier than gluing on the dowels, however now that my plans have modified, they usually’ll be lined by nothing however wallpaper or paint, I’ll must restore them.
So after I began eradicating the tiles from the opposite half of the room. I used the warmth gun. The tiles had been utilized to the wall utilizing Easy Mat adhesive sheets from Dwelling Depot. And let me inform ya, these issues are sticky! On the primary half of the room, I used to be utilizing an enormous prybar and a hammer to get the tiles off of the wall, and people issues didn’t wish to come off. That’s why I left three large gouges within the drywall.
However utilizing the warmth gun to take away them made issues a lot simpler. I used to be in a position to get the second half of the tiles (and the sticky sheets) off of the partitions with no injury to the drywall.
It did peel off a whole lot of primer and paint from the drywall, which has left a whole lot of very uneven areas that may have to be mudded over and sanded easy earlier than I can transfer on with paint and wallpaper, however that’s fairly easy.
Now that I’ve determined to take away the accent and chair rail, I’ll have the ability to have a full apron on the window trim. As a result of the chair rail got here up so excessive, I’ve had this tiny little 1-inch apron sandwiched between the window sill and the chair rail all these years. That’s a type of issues that basically irritated me, however I didn’t actually have another selection if I wished a chair rail.
However now that the chair rail is gone, there will likely be loads of room for a full apron. It’ll look so significantly better!
The trim across the mirror, which was carried out precisely just like the window and door trim, was additionally lacking an apron.
Although there will likely be loads of room for an apron now, I’ve determined to take away it fully and discover a good framed mirror to make use of on this room as a substitute.
After I did this rest room (and the hallway rest room) years in the past, I beloved the concept of framing out the mirrors to match the home windows and doorways. However I’m prepared to maneuver previous that look now. I wish to hold the window and door trim on the home windows and doorways, after which take the chance to usher in a bit of additional one thing with the mirrors.
Sadly, I glued this mirror on to the wall, so I’m certain getting it off will trigger some injury that may want restore.
So issues on this rest room appear like a whole mess proper now, however it has to worsen earlier than it will get higher. I’m very glad it’s a tiny rest room, so despite the fact that the partitions will want some restore earlier than I can wallpaper, at the least I don’t have a whole lot of space to cowl. I’m simply actually excited to lastly get the wallpaper on the partitions! I’ve had the wallpaper for weeks, and I’m able to see some progress on it.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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