Studio Bathroom Progress (It’s Not Much, But It’s Progress!)

I had put in the tile utilizing these sticky pads as a substitute of mortar, and getting these off of the wall induced harm to the drywall. All the best way across the room, it took off the primer and paint layer, leaving the primer and paint layer that remained very free and jagged. So I wanted to get that smoothed out in order that I may put drywall mud over it. That course of went pretty properly on this space…

I used to be utilizing a 6-inch metallic drywall knife to do that, and once I bought to this wall, the primer and paint layer got here off like I used to be eradicating wallpaper. I’m a bit obsessive with regards to peeling issues, so I simply stored scraping and peeling, and earlier than I knew it, I had peeled this a lot off of the wall.

I may have stored going. I needed to maintain going as a result of, once more, I’ve this bizarre obsession with issues that peel off simply. However I noticed that if I didn’t discover a stopping level, I’d spend the subsequent week peeling these partitions, and that may be an enormous waste of time. I simply wanted to a stopping level the place all the edges have been flat and adhered to the wall in order that I can mud over the sides. I feel I lastly have all the edges to that time now, and I’ll be mudding the room at this time. My purpose is to get the partitions sanded, primed, and prepared for wallpaper by the top of the day at this time.

I bumped into an issue with the mirror, although. I can’t get this factor off of the wall.

I used to put in every little thing — each single piece of trim — with development adhesive. I realized a few years in the past that utilizing development adhesive on every little thing is a large waste of money and time, and if I ever needed to take away the trim, it destroyed the drywall. However clearly, I didn’t study that lesson with mirrors.

I do know I used mirror mastic to connect this to the wall, and evidently, I used a whole tube of it for this small mirror. I can’t get this factor to budge in any respect. I’m not involved about breaking the mirror since I received’t be reusing it. So I wasn’t even being light with it. However regardless of how a lot I pried, and it doesn’t matter what I used to shove between the wall and the mirror to separate the 2, I couldn’t make any headway on it. So in case you have any recommendation on tips on how to take away a mirror that’s glued to the wall with mirror mastic, I’d love to listen to it!

One design choice that I nonetheless must work out is tips on how to transition from the wainscoting to the wallpaper. On this authentic lavatory design, I used a row of tiles. They supplied a backsplash for the sink space, after which I carried them across the room as an accent.

However I can’t even think about utilizing tiles with this wallpaper. I don’t suppose there’s any type of tile that may look good with this wallpaper coated in squares.

Sq. tiles like I had earlier than actually wouldn’t work. That will be squares with squares, and that’s overkill. Rectangle tiles wouldn’t work, both. I considered utilizing white penny tiles with white grout, however when I attempt to image that in my thoughts, I feel it might be means too busy additionally.

So I feel I’ll finish utilizing wooden. Initially, I assumed that utilizing wooden won’t be the very best concept since will probably be a backsplash across the sink space, however folks use wainscoting behind and round sinks in bogs on a regular basis. It’s truly quite common. And it’s actually the one possibility I feel will work with the wallpaper. I think about ending off the highest of the wainscoting to look just like the wainscoting on this lavatory. (Picture from Houzz. Toilet by Rachael Liberman Design, LLC.)

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However in my lavatory, that high large piece of lumber will sit proper on high of the countertop. I can envision that, and I feel it’s the one possibility that may end off the highest of the wainscoting with out being too busy and competing with the wallpaper.

The image body molding has to remain precisely the place it’s. I don’t have the choice of constructing it taller or swapping it out for one thing completely different as a result of the entire motive I added image body molding to this room is to disguise the detachable panel behind the bathroom.

That panel is detachable to entry the pump behind the bathroom. So the image body molding has to remain, and it has to remain precisely the place it’s.

In order that’s the progress and the plan for now. And now that I’ve the partitions scraped and prepared for drywall mud, I’m hoping to make loads of progress in right here over the weekend. I’m anxious to get that wallpaper up!!