It's a Bathroom Demo!!!

Not that the winter months are gloomy enough, welcome to our bathroom. You've seen pictures of it before when we first bought the house. How do my husband and I bond? We start ripping apart things that seem like they may be an easy fix to find that the work is more extensive. This turns into frustrations, which turn into arguments. But I have to say, we've gotten to a point in our relationship where one of us just walks out of the room for a few minutes to cool down. Welcome to an adult relationship.

Ok, so the tile on the floor isn't all that bad. I can live with or without it but notice the tiling on the walls, which extend all the way throughout the bathroom and even in the shower. It's dull, it's boring, and its a pain in the butt for me to clean.

 

The wood on the ceiling? Ok, we can handle that. It's actually quite nice, giving the room a spa like feel but the cedar extending on the top part of the bathroom? Who does that? It makes the room dark and dank and it's not even sealed. So every time we take a shower, moisture gets trapped in them creating mold and mildew. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to be breathing that stuff in any more than I have to.

I do have to say I was quite afraid of what we would find underneath those panels.

Luckily, we aren't putting our house on the market in one month like the last one so we don't have to rush, we can do everything right aaaand we get to choose fixtures that we like.

Our goal? Add a little more light and appeal to our only bathroom to not only increase the value of our house, but make it a little more welcoming when we have guests over.

Soooo..here goes phase 1:

 Remove first layer: cedar wood paneling. Oh, look how pretty that is, NOT! Who chose this wallpaper? And look at the yellow staining on it. no wonder they just chose to cover it with wood paneling.

After removing the wallpaper, we discovered the wall is plaster and where the mirror was was a blocked off area where I'm guessing a medicine cabinet had been before. We were kind of hoping to find some secret treasure especially since in our last house after knocking out a crappy built in bookcase we found a bunch of creepy childrens toys and vhs tapes..but of course we weren't that lucky. 

Now our bathroom looks even creepier than before...It looks like a room out of a really sketchy cheap hotel room.

Next, we pulled the remaining nails out and lightly sanded. Then came the spackling. Than the sanding. And then more spackling...and more sanding.

We put one coat of primer up, removed some of the wall tile to see what was behind it, and are calling it a day.