almost there

everyone seems to want to know how my ghetto bathroom is coming along. it's coming! we ran into a series of setbacks but we're almost there. thank goodness i was procrastinating on painting as we had a mean flood that was ankle deep throughout my entire place destroying the plaster work both David and I had done. let me not get into details as i'm finally in a good headspace :) but isn't this a breath of fresh air compared to that monstrosity a while back?

that would be a very 'cool' gray on the walls that is translating to light blue on camera. either way i love it! now we're headed to home depot to get some wall paneling up. do you see that crack that is running horizontally across the wall? the plaster isn't helping so panels it is.

i'm not in the clear yet. still so much too do! and finally i quit one of my jobs...well not quit but i'm only working on call which means i can refocus my energies towards things that truly matter. i'm so looking forward to january when i can be a full time artist again :)

and the saga continues

i had no idea what i was in for when i decided to work on this bathroom project. i feel like Mike Holmes. nothing is as it seems. 4 days of stripping paint stressed me the heck out. imagine applying stripper on the ceiling. what happens is gravity pulls the weight of the stripper and paint down leaving the layers below unaffected. did everything come off after 4 days of stripping twice a day and 2 cans later? of course not. so i started sanding to level as much as i could. mind you i'm working on a ceiling exhausting my muscles. now that's done i'm plastering everything to smooth it out. it's looking slightly better. no paint in sight. my goal is to have a clean smooth surface to work on before i leave for Toronto for Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. in the mean time lets bump those gross images in my post below with some fresh inspiration.

phase I: remove band-aid

so what had happen was i barfed when i saw the state of my hubby's home. let's just say he was livin' beyond bachelor. i didn't have time to get nitty-gritty with my tools when i just moved in so i did the next best thing...SHOP. i covered some of the flaws with expensive shower curtains, matching towel sets, and started organizing. however, band-aids can only last so long. and they look damn gross when you peel them back. i spent the weekend and today stripping paint. 4 layers of it! hopefully this week i can get a nice neutral paint job in. then replace sink with a cabinet, replace hideous light fixture and mirror, retile the dirt mcgurt floors, and of course re-stage this beaut. *WARNING: THESE IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED*

what this tight-fitted hot mess can look like: