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.

 

[appnut]

PINK IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR EVERY ROOM

In the house of any self-respecting ault MALEW MALE MALE!!!

Hell, when I was looking for my current house in 1986, the popular colors were still mauve and grey. I ran (walked) as fast as I could from any house that had petal pink, rose pink, you name it pink as a primary or secondary decorator motive on walls or flooring.

 

[appnut]

Jim, I have to say that original bathrrom wall paper reminded of some sort of bordello type of motiff from the 1880s lol. I had an apartment in 1976, built in 1968, that looked something like that in the kitchen, dining room, and bathrooms. It was pure hell torture for me living there for a semester.

 

[spiceman1957]

Outstanding job you did Jmm63

I showed your pictures to my partner. His bathroom is similar to your before pictures (came with the house). I have 2 pictures attached. What is the best method of removing this kind of wallpaper, or should I just paint over it. Again, nice job, love you the color you picked out.

 

[circlew]

Removing wallcovering

It all depends on what type of material it is. If it's fabric-backed (such as Sanitas or Bolta-Tex) and the wall was properly prepped before it was hung, you should be able to strip it by loosening an edge and pulling it off. Then scrub off the remaing adhesive. If it's a paper backed vinyl, the top layer should peel right off, and then you can soak and scrape off the remainder. If it's only a vinyl coated paper, you can use a tool called "Paper Tiger" to score the coating, allowing water to soak in to loosen it before proceding with scraping. If the wall is drywall instead of plaster, and it wasn't properly sized or primed, you will likely have difficulty in removing it without damaging the wall. I would not recommend painting over it, especially since there is a border which would leave a visible line.

 

[sudsmaster]

I slashed and steamed off the foil flocked wallpaper in my master bath. The wall there is drywall. I used the same technique on similar foil flocked wallpaper in the dining room, where the wall is plaster/lath.

It was slow going but worth getting rid of that awful stuff.

 

[jmm63]

Well after all was said and done, I learned that you can paint over wallpaper, only if its firmly attached to the wall. My mistake was I used a latex primer and not an oil based primer. As soon as the latex primer hit the paper, it started to bubble up, similar to a wallpaper stripper would have done. I ended up stripping the whole room, and of course, they didn't size the walls so it took off alot of the drywall paper layer too. Thats why I did the bead board on the bottom since thats where most of the damage was. Oh well, live and learn. From what I understand, the red wallpaper has some kind of name (other than ugly) its some type of old Victorian pattern. I'm just glad it gone!

 

[a440]

Great Job!
And looks like a lot of work!
Your bathroom looks so much larger!
I know you are loving it!
Brent

 

[retroguy]

Wow...

Jim you took that bathroom from a nightmare to a dream!

 

[mistereric]

Awesome job, Jim! Looks like even more of NJ is being updated! My kitchen when I moved in:

 

[mistereric]

New floor in the kitchen and dining room, new stove, and painted cabinets:

 

[mistereric]

And the donated corian countertop and sink, plus some metal backsplash tiles: