If I could only explain the horror of taking down this
wallpaper! The lovely home owners before us thought
it was a good idea to use the most annoying technique
to put up the wallpaper. They would tear the wallpaper
up into little pieces and paste it to the wall with super glue. Ok well maybe not super glue, but it sure felt that way! It's a pretty small bathroom and it took my husband and I three days to take it down!
The only picture I have of the wallpaper before we finished it. You can see how happy Dave is pulling down one piece of wallpaper down at a time.
After the wallpaper was down it was time to work on the
cabinets. Well this also became a hard project. It should have taking 2 days it took 2 WEEKS! You might be thinking why? Well I wanted a really dark wood look. So I got a dark wood stain and after a day and a half of sanding. Dave put the first coat of stain, then a second, then a third it was no where near the color I wanted. It was way to light. So let's try this again! Sanded back down to bare wood and tried a new stain. We applied 3 coats and still not the right color. So we are going to try one last time before we where just going to paint the cabinets. We got a stain with polyurethane in it. This did the trick! We did 3 coats and finally got the look I wanted!
Here's the Cabinets Before
And Here is the After
This is the finished bathroom with the new granite countertop
Inside the cabinets
I'm not a big fan of circle hand towel holders so
I used a toilet paper holder instead and I love the way it looks!
I'm really thrilled with the way it turned out!
Now it's time to move onto the Master Bath!
It should only take 2 days! Right?
