Before, During, and After....

[jmm63]

I just finished putting the finishing touches on my main bathroom that I have been doing , it seems like, FOREVER! What started as "let's just prime the wallpaper and paint over it" idea, turned into the last 4 months of mess and hard work. I'm pretty happy with the results, and I did it all myself! The hardest part was trying to do mitre cuts on the chair rail that's on top of the beadboard. And I thought I would never need geometry again! Heres some pics: BEFORE _ see why it had to be done???

 

[jmm63]

More Before

lovely!!

 

[jmm63]

during

a work in progress

 

[jmm63]

more during

ugh!

 

[jmm63]

now its paying off

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[jmm63]

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[jmm63]

the final product

YAY!

 

[circlew]

That turned out very nice. It's much more relaxing looking now than with that busy red patterned paper.

 

[travlincub321]

I have some rolls of that flowerd wall paper if you want it.. Grams had it in her house

Looks awesome.. Great job

 

[toploader55]

Hi Jim

Excellent Job and really looks Great.

I'll be in Blairstown this week working at my Dad's house. If you have anytime, shoot me an e-mail. Hope you are well. Eddie

 

[pulsator-power]

Cool Black Though...

I am into red and black, so the old colors don't bother me. The new colors are really nice. Can't stand pattern wallpaper. My kitchen came with HIDEOUS green and gold patterned stuff (Yuck) and the bathroom was painted (no lie) Hot Pink with gold angels on the wall. Talking about waking you up in the morning- it was a shock taking a p--!
Jerry

 

[alr2903]

jmm63 well done, i really like the royal blue if thats the correct name, Your makeover makes me feel like im looking at a beach house. i can see how the old motif could get you to work early, now, you will have to careful you don't linger too long in the morning. Love the new colors. alr2903

 

[toggleswitch2]

Feng Shui to you too!

Gawgeous!

You got the "decorating" gene, didn't you?

I hate black toilets. I don't know. You never can tell if you've cleaned them well. LOL

 

[mixfinder]

Transgender

You gave your bathroom a gender reassignment. Not that I am hung up on or bothered by anything that seems fluffy, but the serene look would be applauded by the real estste experts that babbble on the House and garden channel. Great job.

 

[toggleswitch2]

I recently inspected an aparment buidlng with this inside ALL bathrooms.

Was it popular in the 90's?

And they paid EXTRA for those horrific floral black-and-pastel ceramic-tile borders!

 

[whirlcool]

When we moved into this house it was previously owned by a French couple who painted everything in the house PINK! All the windows had HOT PINK vertical blinds in them. We spent an honest three weeks repainting it all before moving in. Then we noticed that they had pink granite in the landscaping!

That new bathroom does look very nautical. I think that those pedestal sinks look nice, but you have no storage space in the rooms that have them. You did a very nice job on your bath.
With the old red wallpaper my eyes wouldn't know where to look first!

 

[toggleswitch2]

The Pepto-Bismol palace strikes again.

When we moved into this house it was previously owned by a French couple who painted everything in the house PINK!

~Please somebody say how pink is not appropriate for every room in an adult man's house. PLEASE! I so desperately want to win THAT argument! *LOL*

 

[whirlcool]

You had to have been here to see it, the pink everywhere. It might have been fine for a room or two in a retro style house, but this is a newer traditional home. And the pink was pepto-bismol pink too.
Pink is not one of my favorite colors anyway. Now we have a butter yellow room, a white room, a rust colored room, and a blue room. So much better!

 

[sudsmaster]

Looks great.

That red wall paper was pretty awful.

This house had flocked gold foil wallpaper in the master bath, with dingy grayish white painted wood work. Underneath the wall paper were hundreds of spidery spots of mold. Wound up using a paint remover to remove the underlying paint, and then a Kilz primer and finally some light blue semi-gloss. No mold since then.

I don't think the black plumbing was that bad, but it probably would only look good with the walls painted silver.

Togs: that black marble was never all that popular, as I can recall, but who knows? I really wanted green marble for my entry way, but the urge passed.