Before, During, and After....

[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:

 

[toggleswitch2]

DROOL

GAWGEOUS!
YAY

 

[mistereric]

Jim: What was the color blue you used? Its lovely, and I have a friends bathroom that needs a refresh.

 

[revvinkevin]

AWESOME!

Wow, Jim and Eric, what FANTASTIC transformations you each did! They both look really great! VERY nice Jobs!!

Here is my master bath. My ex and I talked about doing it ourselves, but he said he didn't want to to take 10 years, so we hired it out.

(before)

 

[revvinkevin]

My ex had very good taste and he designed it all himself. I must say I completely did (re-did) the plumbing for the sinks because the guy we hired had it all wrong.

(after)

 

[westingman123]

Hey Kevin, that ain't no reglar privvy! Looks more like a day at the spa. Inspired remodels, all of you.

 

[omomatic]

Wow, from a designer's perspective

First of all Jim and Kevin, what a fanastic job that you both have done. You have balanced each room with both practicallity, form, function and design. Congratulations. the 3 S's have been followed: Stylish, Simple, Sense..able

 

[mistereric]

Kevin, thats spectacular! I would mourn the loss of the bathtub, but at the same time, having a shower for two does seem pretty exciting.

 

[revvinkevin]

I'd mourn the loss of the bathtub, but... having a showe

My ex and I did talk about removing the tub since we never use it, we also considered the resale point of view (not that I plan to sell). Since there is another full bath in the house which has a tub/shower, we figured we would be OK to take this one out.

Both tubs are/were Kohler cast iron pieces, which are really great for sound abatement while showering, but I will tell you, that was one H-E-A-V-Y sombeech to move out!

Eight person shower. Yes there is MORE then enough room for two. In fact after it was all done, we were having a party and during a tour, I instructed the "tour group" to all get in the shower. There were seven (7) in the shower (comfortably) and was still room for one more!