It's the third (and last!) week of the current #letsroomtogether challenge and I've (slowly but surely) made some aesthetic progress on the half bath! It's probably the room I'm most embarrassed about when we have visitors. Everything else anyone sees is at least put together even if it is still outdated (I'm looking at you kitchen.) But this room, it looks like it belongs in a house that's been slated for tear down.
Ok, so maybe that's a slight exaggeration but still, it's pretty bad. You can't tell in pictures but paint has chipped off the walls in small pieces, leaving small areas of drywall exposed. Why? Because when we took the wallpaper off, it took off some of the paint behind it along with some of the walls texture. I've sent lots of eye rolls back in time to whoever installed the wallpaper, believe me. I don't know what they didn't do that they should have but something went wrong here. Along with the chipped paint, there are small pieces of wallpaper still attached to the wall where the blue was painted over it, the cabinet is pretty roughed up, and then there's that awesome linoleum and outdated wood trim. I bet it was a beaut back in the 80's but those days are long gone.
But it's ok because we're finally moving past this ugly stage. The first week, I started filling those places where the paint and texture came off, removed the rest of the wallpaper left near that bottom border where the blue paint starts, and filled the loads of nail and dry wall plug holes. Then, I primed and painted the window and door trim. (Oil-based Kilz primer + Valspar paint color-matched to Pure White by SW.)
