The upstairs bathroom. For the longest time the light didn't work in there, and it was just the scariest room in the house. We kept avoiding the room and even talking about it. Every now and then we'd ask each other, "what ARE we going to do with that bathroom??", then we'd change the subject.
The tub was just caked on with gunk so bad, we figured it would need to be replaced, and the tiles were so awful, we had no idea if we'd need to take them down or tile over them. Then the fact the ceiling was falling down from a leak (which has since been fixed) and the room got all musty - it really just became the room we didn't speak about. Until today.
The light actually worked - it just needed a bulb. The next order of business was cutting out the drywall on the other side of the window in the bathroom. Yes, it's a weird set up. The bathroom wall used to be an exterior wall, but an addition on the other side created a window between the bathroom and the laundry room which someone drywalled over on the laundry room side. So you had a wall in the laundry room, but a window looking at drywall in the bathroom. The laundry room has a lot of natural light, so we've removed the drywall which was over that window to let some of that natural light through to the bathroom. The glass in the window is opaque so privacy shouldn't be an issue.
Removing the drywall and scraping the window frame gave us the added benefit of actually being able to open the window and get some nice fresh air in the bathroom. And then with a little sweeping and a little vacuuming the bathroom looked like a real room and not even so scary.
What really made this room dingy was the fact that someone has painted every single tile in the room. We're not sure why. The tiles are a few different colors, but they're not too badly contrasting. Not bad enough to justify painting them. The paint has gotten really dirty over the years which really made it look drab. \ And these tiles are tough! We've spent the afternoon scraping some of this paint off (maybe about 20% of the room), and we need to scrape pretty hard, and not a single tile has scratched. The tub has also been painted, and we're hoping that scraping the tub will clean that up pretty well also.
So now we've got a nice plan for the room. We're going to scrape all the tiles and based on how they look, we may re-tile parts of the room, but we're going to keep the tub as well. Hopefully it will also look good with a scraping, but if not, we're just going to re-coat it. Its a nice solid old tub, so it should be good for another 50 years.
We didn't do a lot of photo taking today, but we should get some more tomorrow.
We also wanted to give a shout-out to all the people working at McNiell in Procurement. Apparently they're our biggest fans, and by my calculations make up about 95% of the visitors to this blog. :)
The tub was just caked on with gunk so bad, we figured it would need to be replaced, and the tiles were so awful, we had no idea if we'd need to take them down or tile over them. Then the fact the ceiling was falling down from a leak (which has since been fixed) and the room got all musty - it really just became the room we didn't speak about. Until today.
The light actually worked - it just needed a bulb. The next order of business was cutting out the drywall on the other side of the window in the bathroom. Yes, it's a weird set up. The bathroom wall used to be an exterior wall, but an addition on the other side created a window between the bathroom and the laundry room which someone drywalled over on the laundry room side. So you had a wall in the laundry room, but a window looking at drywall in the bathroom. The laundry room has a lot of natural light, so we've removed the drywall which was over that window to let some of that natural light through to the bathroom. The glass in the window is opaque so privacy shouldn't be an issue.
Removing the drywall and scraping the window frame gave us the added benefit of actually being able to open the window and get some nice fresh air in the bathroom. And then with a little sweeping and a little vacuuming the bathroom looked like a real room and not even so scary.
What really made this room dingy was the fact that someone has painted every single tile in the room. We're not sure why. The tiles are a few different colors, but they're not too badly contrasting. Not bad enough to justify painting them. The paint has gotten really dirty over the years which really made it look drab. \ And these tiles are tough! We've spent the afternoon scraping some of this paint off (maybe about 20% of the room), and we need to scrape pretty hard, and not a single tile has scratched. The tub has also been painted, and we're hoping that scraping the tub will clean that up pretty well also.
So now we've got a nice plan for the room. We're going to scrape all the tiles and based on how they look, we may re-tile parts of the room, but we're going to keep the tub as well. Hopefully it will also look good with a scraping, but if not, we're just going to re-coat it. Its a nice solid old tub, so it should be good for another 50 years.
We didn't do a lot of photo taking today, but we should get some more tomorrow.
We also wanted to give a shout-out to all the people working at McNiell in Procurement. Apparently they're our biggest fans, and by my calculations make up about 95% of the visitors to this blog. :)
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