Taking up arms against the bathroom...

Despite my best efforts, I could not get parts of the wall over the sink smooth. Priming the wall just pointed out the flaws. I kept going over and over with spackling and a sanding block and making the problem worse and worse...

So this morning I let fly with the entire can of spray spackling and pretended that I wanted that wall to be textured all along. It hasn't hidden all the flaws - there are tape lines that will be showing through the bathroom (and the pantry for that matter) as long as the walls stand, but it made all the little issues fade away. And now that the paint's up, the texture looks kinda cool.

So tonight I don't have to brush my teeth in the kitchen sink. I'm really grateful for that!

fandance says her ex is willing to come give me a hands-on class in cutting out and repairing the rotten drywall. Tongue cannot tell my gratitude; the mission creep on this job is getting well beyond my capabilities.


Y'know, remodeling does odd things to your priorities. I now *want* one of the cats to hork up a hairball, so I can smush the sample of pergo in it and see what happens.

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Also, I have a NIB Pampered Chef cookie press up for auction at graduate_maria.