Bathroom Shenanigans Weekend Recap

Good February morning to you.  You made it through January (for the long suffering folk) and I can't believe it's already February (for those with endless work or projects that made the month go quick.)  For those of you who read Sunday's post, you know how monthly weigh in went and the ensuing frustration.   Once I calmed down and we both stopped stalling, we knew what had to be done.

Wallpapering. 

This was the project we'd been dreading since the second I mentioned it and made doubly more nerve wracking given for only papering the upper third of the walls, it was $500.  Yeah, we went with the bougie place you've probably seen on your IG feed because it was the only one that made me gasp.  The Mr seemed to like it too but I gasped again when we bought the sample.  The color on the monitor and the whole reason I picked it was because I thought the leaves were a deep emerald green. When we got it, it seemed to be more of a steel blue.  I still liked the pattern but it would be an adjustment from my expectations because I couldn't get the original out of my head even when it was right in front of me.  I need to design wallpaper.  HA!  

We got to it and made our plumb line.

Good Lord that wall looks really textured.   We read this article a few weeks ago about how to keep the paste off of the ceiling (you can't) but it also addressed how to potentially make where the spot comes together look better because the pattern might not match so you want it to be inconspicuous.  We measured off of the plumb line to see where it would end if we went all the way around the room.  Well, it would be a 5" strip (out of 24") right next to the shower.  We thought the chances of it potentially steaming off would be higher by doing that so we agreed we'd have to start from either side then meet in the middle over the door for the least noticeable spot.  

Because we live in a shoe and every square inch of flat space was taken, we had to pull out our Jankified Inc hats as per usual on home reno.  So our wallpaper marking table was a 22" plastic cutting board on the bed.

So us.

Then we would book it, wait and get to hanging when the paste was activated.  (I remember watching videos about wallpaper booking and it terrified us both.  We were sure it was going to glue to itself but thankfully it didn't.)  The Mr tolerated me like a champ because I know if I would've been working with someone like me freaking out over certain stuff, I would've been like "GTFO NOW!!"  But he did need me to line up the seams on the bottom, smooth and hand him stuff so I guess he couldn't kick me out despite probably wanting to.  I wasn't sure we'd get it all done in one day but we did and we're both thankful as hell it was only the top portion because doing the entire wall would be enough to drive you nuts.  We both collapsed when it was done and I fired up the heating pad and massage gun because I was super screwed from walking 6 miles the previous two days in barefoot shoes.  

Sunday we both woke up with headaches so he brought up coffee and yogurt and we watched the tube for a bit.  I had planned a big breakfast so I made that.  We tried the Dolly Parton pancake mix and yep, they're pancakes.  It took a lot in me not to tell the Mr screw it, order breakfast from somewhere which would've been more calories than we were probably allowed for the day so I consider it a win against the 'eff it monster.'  The Mr hung the light in the bathroom after I ordered some vintage LED's for it.  Then we discovered a problem...the medicine cabinet door will hit it.  This thing is literally almost the exact same size and proximity to our old one but nope.  It looks like we'll be able to open it 3/4 of the way and still have access to everything which is all we care about so I'll trudge on as far as making the door as planned.  If it becomes an issue, we'll deal with it but it friggin' figures nothing can just work.

I forgot to put on my watch earlier so I ran up and grabbed that and we went to grab Mom's Christmas wreath off of her "condo."  (I don't like saying grave.)  We went to the park and walked for 6K steps and I made some homemade pizza and salad for dinner while we watched Marc Maron's End Times Fun.  Then we went up and watched Groundhog Day.  I didn't make anything for the coming week but I will a bit today.  

How was your weekend?

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