Sunday, August 12, 2007

The Remodeling project continues

My bathroom is almost done now. I spent the day painting it yesterday (I won't do that again anytime soon!) and spent the evening cleaning up at least some of it. My poor whirlpool tub was so dirty and somehow managed to get drops of paint all over it even though it was cover with a drop cloth. But once the cloth was removed, it looked like the workers had sanded spackling and everything else over this tub. It took me an hour and a half to clean it. It looks great now. The toilet was even worse. I got the wall plates back on (very pretty) and both fans/lights up. The light over the sink is back up but I still need to put the recessed lighting up (royal pain). Then to move in the rest of the way.
I have to admit that I like the look of the paint in that room. The ceiling is a very light taupe, the walls a medium light taupe and the trim is a medium/dark taupe, all three shades a very different color of the same pallet. It gives the walls a plastered look which I really like and matches the marble look tile of the shower and tub perfectly. I also used my artist hand to do the edging of the wall and ceiling colors which add to the look. The border paper I have to put up there is a Victorian floral pattern of pink roses, purple hydrengas and small flowers of various colors on a very light taupe background with medium taupe Victorian swirl edges. Unfortunately I didn't have enough here to do the entire room, so I had to order more. That will go up when it arrives.
Today I will plan on spending most of the day, or a good part of it, on my hands and knees with a bucket of floor cleaner and a scrub brush, cleaning up the paint drops, grit and dirt off the floor of this bathroom. Then it will be cleaned up and ready for whatever decorations I choose to put in there. The shower door isn't here yet but should be coming in about a week or so, then a final inspection with the contractor who wants to take pictures for his portfolio.

I am really pleased with the bathroom at this point.

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