Bathroom Floor - MULLIGAN!

I didn't like the way it was looking so I started over. It's frustrating, and this will screw up my project schedule, but this is one of the benefits of paper flooring.

No stain in the goo.

After three coats of glue-stain-goo.

Here's what it looks like before sanding:

And here's what it looks like with a quick once-over with a sanding block:

The sanding brings out all the white veins.

So anyway, as I write this I am doing a happy dance (internally; I'm way to tired to do it externally) because I've just put down the first of 10 coats of Polycrylic. Translation: The End Is In Sight, People!!!

Bathroom Floor

With the walls and ceiling completed, it's time to get the flooring done.

Carpet tack strip holes patched, floor cleaned.

One layer of paper applied with glue + stain.

Floor received a light sanding to bring out the veins. Inevitable boo-boos patched.

Second coat of glue/stain.

Third coat of glue/stain.

Blood Orange

Yesterday, thanks to my ever-helpful roommate-step-daughter, Lydia, who is much stronger than I am, my dwarf Moro blood orange tree found its new home in the garden.

Couldn't have done it without you, Lyd!

Painting Complete!

 

Ready to start on the floor! Yaaaaayyyyy!

Bathroom check-in

The mudding-sanding-mudding-sanding-repeat seemed to go on FOREVAH! Yesterday I was finally ready to throw on a coat of primer.

First I removed all the old, cucky caulk. 

 Oopsie! One of the shower doors didn't appreciate the vibrations.

 

Scraped up all the crumbs and blotches of vinyl adhesive,

and then vacuumed the floors.

Here's the before of the door frame.

And here's the after:

It's finally prime time! 

Primed. 

Yay! Finally ready for the first coat of paint! But wait...just as with the hallway...that first coat of paint let me see all the boo-boos.

"Jebus Cripes, when will it end?"

Yesterday, before dying completely at the end of the day, I re-mudded the icky spots. Today I sanded them...and saw more icky spots. Mudded them, let the mud dry, sanded them...and saw more icky spots. Repeat. The curse of a perfectionist. Finally was able to re-prime and re-paint the repaired areas.

As of this writing, it is now, really and truly, ready for the second and final coat of paint throughout.

Oh, and as for the shower door, I'm effectively delaying its replacement date until I'm damn good and ready by covering one side with masking tape and the other side with two coats of PolyAcrylic.

So there.

Spuds...

...are confused as to why I'm taking their picture.

Being Creative

I've been picking up free to cheap toys and making these things.

I'm Fancy Now

 Old cutting board. Stained and gross. Came with the house, so 36 years old.

New cutting board!

Thank you, Corbin!!!