Bathroom DO OVER!

Our project this week was a bathroom for one of my favorite babysitters from when I was a kid. Her bathroom was cold and sterile - the trim painted gray and the walls covered with faded and peeling wallpaper. Removing the wallpaper was every bit of fun that people say it is! Ughh! The top layers came off easily, but getting all the layers off (Of course there were multiple layers of wallpaper...silly!) was starting to damage the plaster walls.

Here is where we are lucky to have a general contractor in the family. Michael called his brother Chris who suggested we cover the walls - old wallpaper and all - with a light topping "mud." It worked brilliantly! [Insert: Shameless plug for Chris' company - Chris Murphy Remodeling & Construction Inc. (CMRC Inc.) in Lake Stevens, Washington!] The topping went up and after a light sand we were able to paint and accessorize.

Here is the bathroom before:

And here is the bathroom after: