I’ve got solatubes to install in the great room. It’s too hot outside and in the attic for me to be willing to do it right now.

I’ve got 245sq. feet of laminate flooring in the garage to put in the kitchen and front entryway.

I’ve got paint, flooring, and a light fixture for the master bathroom.

I’ve got a new stain I’m using for the woodwork (really makes it shine!) and ambitions to refinish the cabinetry in the house.

I needed to focus and start on one room. (I have all the flooring because it was a special clearance, and I’m worried that means they’re discontinuing that color.) I saved a few hundred dollars by waiting for it to go on clearance. That was a nice surprise.

So I’ve taken the plunge. I’m going to redo the master bathroom this week. I may not get it done in a week, but it’s the first of the month, and I’m starting a new room!

I’ll be documenting the progress and process in photos, thanks to my new (gently used) digital camera. You can view the whole mess as I work on it daily.

A little background on this bathroom for those that haven’t seen it:

It’s a small bathroom with a sink, a toilet, and a stand-up shower that’s about 2.5×4 feet in size. The bathroom covers about 28 square feet of space. It’s painted with a bright-yellow sponge paint, obviously to cover horrendous flaws in the underlying wallboard. Oh joy. Someone apparently couldn’t do drywall to save their life. The walls are a catastrophe. I’m going to have to skim-coat the whole bathroom.

The process is starting with my orbital sander and 60 grit “SandBlaster” sand paper. The stuff cuts right through the sponge paint, but leveling things off is a pipe-dream right now. For now, I’m going to be scuffing up as much of a low spots as possible, with hopes that joint compound / mud will be able to ahear to it in the near future.

Day 1 started with a small expirament with the sandpaper and the orbital sander over a fairly large area of the largest wall. Tomorrow I’ll be pulling the trim, towel bars, and everything else that I can off the walls, and attacking the walls with more sanding. Once that’s done, I’ll skim-coat all the walls, sand them down smooth, paint the ceiling, replace the shower head (I have a crazy idea that I think will be darn cool), paint the walls, replace the floor, and finish up. It’s going to be a long, long week.

Especially since I’ve got another project going on the side of this. Ugh. :-)

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