April 25, 2010

  • BAD BATHROOM!

    EDIT: Bathroom Redo is on hold one more week *SIGH* Just how things go sometimes...
    (*With the giant storms which came through last night-it might just be a good thing! Smelly Musty basement needs drying. I will move onto other projects in the meantime)

    Well the time has finally come to redo my horribly ugly and utterly unhealthy bathroom!

    When I bought my house in 2000 it came with one main bathroom which was sadly finished in 1970's aqua blue. Toilet, Sink, Tub, and a complete surround which not only surrounded the bathtub, but came out to encircle the toilet and sink! The whole bathroom was an Aqua Nightmare. (*BTW- the flooring was the worse I have ever seen-orange and yellow cobble stone and the rest of the wall had vinyl wallpaper of HUGE yellow and citrus green cabbage roses) Seriously this bathroom could have won prizes for being the ugliest bathroom easily! We took as much of it out, but had to stop at the tub and tub surround. It was just too big a job to take on.

    Since then things have just gone downhill fast. Thanks in part to the old vinyl wall paper, mold got trapped and grew on the ceiling. I have been cleaning it with bleach, but it seems to come back. I think it has everything to do with the blue surround still producing moisture and mold that then growing up and around and onto the ceiling. It's got to go.

    This is how it looked a few years ago when I went to redo the caulking. I pulled off the old and this is the horror I found.

    I had to redo the caulking of course-but it no longer was a smooth bead...it was not at least a few inches of spackle -Ugh! Talk about awful.
    Since then I have just lived with it this way. Embarrassed. Hiding it behind a closed shower curtain. Photoshoping out anything that looked bad. But lately the chipboard surround has finally started to disengage and the spackle is no longer working.

    Tomorrow we are finally taking out the tub and replacing it, adding a new surround, getting a proper sink, an under cabinet (Which we never had before), new lights, and a new medicine cabinet. We are then going to redo the flooring and repaint everything. Hopefully I will be able to take a bath soon without getting the creepy-crawlies! I have NEVER been able to relax in my tub... so this is a huge and very necessary treat!

    More photos of the progress coming shortly.
    (Tonight will most likely be the last bath I take in that ugly thing!)

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