DIY Home Repair - not for sissies!

So, someone in this family got the bright idea that we should do a little home renovation work. You know, just slap a little paint into the bathroom, maybe replace the medicine cabinet. Easy stuff, right? (okay, okay, it was my bright idea)

We took everything off of the walls. That was the easy part! Then, we had to scrape, and scrape, and scrape off the old ugly wallpaper. Do the next owners of your house a favor. Please, for the love of everything good and wonderful in this world, please don't put up any wallpaper (unless you're a sociopath. Then, go ahead and paper up everything!) I'm already dreading peeling off the paper in the kitchen and basement. wah!

Underneath the old medicine cabinet, we found a big hole in the wall and evidence of the rainbow of colors that our bathroom has been painted over the years.



If you look closely, you can see white, yellow, green, blue, and the pink that it was when we bought our house. That wasn't the biggest surprise, though. Underneath the wallpaper, we found brown paint and a Scooby Doo wallpaper border!






Why on earth would you have a Scooby Doo theme in the main bathroom of your house? I just don't understand it.

It's finally all done (except for the trim). I picked out a lovely yellow called Lemon Cream, and Rich painted it for me. After it was dry, we hung up a new lightbar, new medicine cabinet, and new toilet topper. Now I just need to get a new towel bar for by the sink, and a new shower curtain!