Next step after the before photos for our renovation? The demo photos, of course, which in our crazy little funky house are always the most amusing. Our house was built in 1933, and the structure is, shall we say, interesting. Studs are oddly placed, and some studs don’t even connect to anything. And then the people who owned the house for most of its life had very questionable decorating taste; we have found scraps of absolutely hideous wallpaper in our various renovation projects, and the bathroom was no exception. In other rooms of the house we’ve also found layers of truly odd paint color choices on the trim, including olive green, dark red, and awful yellow. The original trim in the bathroom is long gone, so no terrible trim colors to show here, but do enjoy the multitude of wallpapers and the strangely placed studs (Greg filled in the unconnected bits of stud with nice fresh two by fours, pictured here)…click on images to enlarge:
Yikes. So you’re building an outhouse, right?
PS love the wallpaper — very 50s, 60s, 70s. Nice.
I’m pretty sure we had that wallpaper in one of our houses in the 70’s. By choice. 🙂
Jean – An outhouse? What a great idea. We may have to do that.
Liz – the yellow one? In the 70’s, I’m sure that wasn’t that bad…
My favorite of the three wallpapers is the weird pseudo-French one with the blue chairs. Just odd.
And we’ve discovered yet another wallpaper in the foyer, after Jim removed the baseboards there. Will post a photo of that soon…