Unavoidable. We were redoing the bathroom & I’d nowhere to hide. Not under the bowling ball counters, nor in the bath and certainly not behind the toilet. To re-do our only bathroom: we had to demolish the entire beast – our unspeakably criminal bathroom – in one ugly go. And, um…. what about the toilet? [...]
Enough of yesterday’s grim, real-life carnage. Wouldn’t we rather inspect tasteful medical diagrams? The [ugly] living room wall before: mirror/plywood mosaic bright orange paint really shitty chair-rail, for midgets glorious ‘70s vinyl wallpaper a shitty in-built bookshelf, with inset mirrors more mirror/plywood mosaic disgusting, dingy grasscloth even more mirror/plywood mosaic A whole lot of things [...]
All right friends and cherubs. Let’s wrap up this nonsense. Our walls can’t talk. But they’ve probably learned to swear. Here’s 18 days’ worth of gory glory. Days 1-18 in flipping Vancouver’s ugliest apartment: we got down and dirty with our living room walls. Spackle? Hot vinegar? Cold pizza? It’s all on the menu.
Send back the Bo Flex. Return the Nordic Track. Throw away whatever Suzanne Summers sold your mother. Tell Bikram you’re sorry: Wallpaper removal is the new hot yoga. It’s too bad Vancouver’s Olympics have come and gone, because I just found my sport. Zen is found – for free – in a sweaty session of spray-spray-spray, [...]
A fortuitous day: we’ve found all the pieces required to watch a movie. Power strips, speaker cable, the DVD player and the remotes. Magic. Our celebration erred with the movie itself: Shutter Island. Awful. Like actually dreadful. For awhile, we’d played it on fast forward and ad-libbed over the top, our own Mystery Science Theatre. The [...]
Realizing we needed proper Ugly Baby before shots before any boxes arrived, our lovely friend & stellar photographer, Andrew, beat the moving truck to our place & snapped some commemorative, wide-angle ugliness. He’s archived every inch of the “before” & I’m ever so grateful. So why not meet my ugly bedroom? The bedroom’s ugly “feature” wall: With [...]
Wallpaper removal was the next-best option after our first morning of renos came to a crashing halt. For absolutely no reason, we started in the dining room and its bright orange swirly stuff. The wallpaper was in perfect condition after 35 years, and we didn’t expect it to go without a fight. Store-bought removal options: A) buy [...]
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