This former coat closet now hosts a tiny little corner sink and john.
The sink is my favorite part, but when one cat followed by another and sometimes another wants to keep you company as you pee, that little room sure gets tight! The old owners laid down some nasty laminate flooring and some very uneven tiles along the wall. I thought, "tiniest bathroom, fastest room to finish!" Wrong! After hack sawing off the toilet from it's rusted bolts and ripping out two layers of rotten moldy wooden boards/ make shift floors we found that the floor was rotten to the floor beams. Wah. Wah.
After much debate to decide if we should knock out a wall and try and expand the bathroom any more, which we think is very possible, we decided not to. It's just a guest bathroom on the first floor. If you're my guest and you want to do more than sit on the john and wash your hands in my bathroom, then maybe we might need to have a little bit of a chit chat.
This weekend. My goal. With my dad, who's coming to visit this weekend again! Hi Dad! Is to put new floor down and slap up some sweet subway tile and paint, get a new toilet seat and hand towels and a mirror! Then, then! then! then! We will have our first room of the house done! Our tiny 12 square foot bathroom on the first floor! Oh I am so excited!
Rick, hugging the almighty john trying to get the damn thing off the bolts.
Our best friend MOLD!
yay!
and SICK!
So this is the part that we saw out, and replace with fresh new happy unrotten wood and then super cool tile that my dad will teach me how to lay! Then, I'll be back here at my desk excitedly showing you pictures of our first room done in the house! yay!
Oh, today, I'm so behind on posting... we were going to try and finish the yellow and grey room, the former bedroom, but then we discovered that two of the walls are rotten. Huge bummer. I'll admit I was ready to cry because I was so excited to have a room done. In light of the situation the room has weird curved walls... because theres more room to the room behind the walls! But the wall between the rooms is full of asbestos insulation which Rick and I were not ready to encounter and hacked up our lungs and throats for about an hour. That stuff is serious stuff!
Pictures will come soon!
But during this event we bought some popcorn ceiling stuff in a spray can. It's supposed to make your ceiling have the little popcorn sort of texture on it. We had to repair parts of the ceiling so we bought this stuff to patch it.
NEVER BUY THIS STUFF!
NEVER BUY HOMAX CEILING TEXTURE: POPCORN.
Never buy anything like it either.
This shit was gone, empty after five or six squirts. It covered practically no ceiling at all. Even with my newspaper taped all along the edge of the wall and the ceiling that crap went flying everywhere! I was covered in it, the walls were covered in it, the floor, my god. I think more of it landed everywhere else besides its desired destination. HORRIBLE. Then it started just dripping, glopping off of the ceiling! It wasn't even sticking! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE!
I went back with our huge bucket of plaster patch stuff and just went with the good old spiky kind of icicle sort of texture, ten times easier, and hundreds of times cheaper.
THAT CAN, It cost us over 12 dollars!
Biggest waste of money ever.
KEEP YOUR CEILINGS FLAT.
Ps. This is totally, AMAZING weather! Go paint a room or something this week!
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