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Ok. I should have taken "before" pictures but I forgot. I redid the kids' bathroom this week. The kids picked out the new stuff a couple months ago. I made a deal with them that if They kept the bathroom Spotless for one month, I would get the stuff and start working on it. Now, the rest of the deal is they have to Keep it Spotless All the Time, or I will take down the pretty stuff. (I'm just a mean old mom huh? Not like I'm trying to teach them to be responsible or anything.... lol)

Monday I stripped off the red and purple 10" wallpaper border from the top of the wall. If you need to do this, go to Lowe's or Home Depot or some other store like that. Look for a "Wall Claw" and some "Strip +" spray. This stuff was Awesome! Scratch up the paper with the claw, then spray, then wait 15 minutes, then peel off with a putty knife. Only hard part was getting my short self up there. LOL Also washed the walls down and spackled some nail holes, etc.

Tuesday I painted. I was so good!! I taped everything off with blue tape....outlet, light switches, the mirror, etc. Cut in all the edges and corners with my brush. Then I looked at the ceiling. *sigh* I think the previous owners smoked in that bathroom. I have cleaned and scrubbed and it doesn't smell in there. But the walls and the inside of the door were just yellowed some. In case you didn't know, you cannot paint the rest of the room a nice bright white and not paint the ceiling. So first I got the broom handle and screwed that into the roller handle, then painted the ceiling. (so much fun that!) Then I painted the walls. 2 coats. 3 by the light switches and towel bars. (it is the Kids' bathroom!)

Yesterday I painted the trim and the door. 2 coats of high gloss. :) Waited for that to dry. Peeled off all my blue tape. Then scrubbed the bathroom. Hung the new shower curtain. Folded and put out the new towels and the new rug. Here's what it looks like

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it was a dingy, kind of yellowed off white with a border at the topof the walls. I still need to see if I can find a new pull for the ceilingfan. I want to replace the red "ruby" one with a dolphin or something.I've seen those around so I'm sure I can find one. They were both thrilledwith the bathroom. DS, upon first viewing the bathroom, said "Oh Mom! Youtotally outdid yourself this time! You're just.......just....totallyoutdid!!!!!!!!!" DD squeezed me and pronounced it "Marvelous, Mommy, justmarvelous." So the boy was at a loss for words (I've been chuckling overthat one ever since) and the teenager called me Mommy. Neither one happensvery often so I think it was worth 3 days work. ;) Today I get to clean the rest of the house since I've been hiding in the bathroom all week. whooo hoooo!!!!!!!!!! lol

Sharon

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Sharon Hays
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Very pretty Sharon!! I wish we could have a bathroom for the kids, but instead we have the boys bathroom and the girls bathroom...lol. Boys is rather plain, girls is done to look like a tropical island - I need to touch up the paint in there as it got the the point that i just wanted the previous eggplant completely covered up.

Way to Go MOM!!

Larisa

Shar> Ok. I should have taken "before" pictures but I forgot. I redid the kids'

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off kilter quilter

Just wonderful Sharon!! Looks so clean and bright and cheerful in there!! Good for you!!

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Pat in Arkansas

Beautiful Job Sharon! Maybe you should start a BR decorating business. There's a lot of people out there who are unhappy with the look of theirs Juno

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Juno

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Beverly

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BEI Design

Thanks Larisa.

What is it with eggplant paint?? Friends of ours just bought a house this summer with all "fruit and veggie" colored paint. One bathroom was tangerine. (that would wake you up in the morning!!!!!! lol) The dining room was eggplant. The dining room?!?!?!? This was just off the kitchen that broke the edible color palette. The kitchen was baby blue and pastel pink. Now, these could be very nice colors, if done right. But they didn't get there in that house. nope nope nope.....it was bad. They hired a professional house painter to come in and "neutralize" everything. lol My pal said they may have gone too far the other way and made the house a little dull, but they were willing to risk that to make the headache from the blinding colors go away. lol

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

Thanks Pat!!! :) And now it's not up to me to keep it clean in there. LOL Well, I'm sure I will have to supervise that but...... ;)

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

Is that a hint missy miss??? ;) I'd come paint the bathroom for you if you needed it. :) But I don't think people would want to pay me what I'd want to charge. lol It would take a lot for me to crawl around and paint that baseboard behind some commodes.....

Thank you very much for the praise. I'm awful tickled with how it turned out. DS this morning told me it was like showering in a whole different house!! lol And both of them were in a hurry to jump out of bed and get in there to get the day started. Was nice not to have to bark and growl to get people out of bed this morning. ;)

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

Thank you very much. :) I was so tickled that I could find a bathmat to match the color at the bottom of it. And I ordered the rug online too!!!!!! So I had my fingers crossed hard on that one. lol

Thank you very much for all the links! I will surf through those and see what I can find. :) You feeling better?

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

Be careful of what you say about Tangerine. Years ago we had work done in our cottage, We had to have the bathroom completely rebuilt. I asked the guy who did it to paint the BR a very pale apricot, Turned out more orange than apricot. He was so pleased with his choice of color I didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't quiet what I had in mind :) Asked DH to repaint in a softer color, That was 16 years ago. I'm still waiting. Everyone we know says how pretty it is, looks like a sunset, Well, yes it does. Just not what I wanted. I can't repaint it because the paints really bother me and I have to wait for him to do it. Juno

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Juno

You're welcome. Some of those are really nifty!

Much better, thanks! I even got a "job" today. The local Major-Junior hockey team ordered a special jersey for the mascot, and the sleeves are about four feet long! ;-) Several of us Boosters were in the venue today supervising player-decorated Christmas ornaments, (much fun), when the administrative assistant came in and asked, "Does anyone here sew?" Everyone pointed at me...

So I'm going to take a foot or so off the sleeves. Gives me a really good excuse *finally* to thread up the Huskylock 936 for doing the coverstitch. ;-)

Beverly

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BEI Design

lol That's fun that they all had confidence you could get the job done. But did you have that moment of "uh oh....." when they all turned around and pointed at you? I've had that happen once or twice and I always kind of expect them to start that squealing noise from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Donald Sutherland version.

Oh yay!!!!!! I'm so glad you get to use the coverstitch. You'll have to give us a full report. I'd love to have a machine that does a coverstitch. But that would mean I had to get rid of one I currently have. (no more room in there for another one) I have gotten pretty good at a mock coverstitch. Sure would be easier to do the whole thing in one pass rather than 3 though. Ah well. ;) You have fun spiffing up the mascot.

I'm so glad you are feeling better! And you've not floated away!!

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

I didn't mean to poke at your bathroom, Juno. I'm sorry.

Although, I'm sure your bathroom is a WHOLE LOT prettier than the tangerine color they had in the bathroom. Theirs was closer to a tangerine peel than to a sunset. Um....... Oh! I know! It was a couple shades lighter than the orange Vonage uses on their mailers and website. Yeah, kinda makes your eyes cross huh? lol

If I was closer, I'd come get you, we'd run to Lowe's pick out the color you wanted, then I'd go paint that bathroom for you. ;)

Sharon

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Sharon Hays

It's O.K. Sharon, I poke fun at it all the time. Juno

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Juno

That is a beautiful bathroom. This week, we had hardwood floors put in DS's office, my sewing room, the dining room and both halls. Oh, does that ever make a difference in the home! We're very pleased with the result. It's Brazilian Cherry; we were in total agreement on the color immediately when we first saw it. Emily

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CypSew

Well, yes... ;-}

Flaked out on using the coverstitch, did the serge-then-stitch-twice method instead. Really, I'm going to

*have* to get the coverstitch mastered one of these days, just not today. And I just got home (dinner at Olive Garden, yummmm), and have an e-mail from the AA, asking if I can make the sleeves waaaaay shorter than she asked for yesterday. Ummm, nope, already done, sorry!

My home is a "daylight ranch", for which they excavated a largish hole in the back to provide egress from the basement. Every ten years or so during a really huge rainstorm, the hole starts to fill with water. This is one of those years. So far "Lake Ickes" is still about 30 feet from the foundation, I have my fingers crossed. I *don't* want to have to run a pump or fill sandbags, thankyewverymuch!

Beverly

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BEI Design

BEI Design wrote: > Flaked out on using the coverstitch, did the

Go on Beverly - give it a go! Its not that scary - honest!

I only got my first serger about 4yrs ago, and upgraded to the HV936

2yrs ago. I've used the coverstitch several times with improving results every time.

I must admit threading for coverstitch is a bit of a fiddle and involves sticking the tongue out of the side of your mouth and swearing at the last threading point.

The actual coverstitch works well, tension adjustment for a lady of your talents should be easy.

The bit I find hardest is keeping things all lined up - I found on my first few tries that the fabric meant to be caught in the hem crept out. Practice, better control and investment in the hemming foot have improved things.

Don't try to use it on too small a diameter circle (i.e. a cuff) without opening the seam first - coverstitch then seam. I learnt the hardway attempting to hem a pair of shorts for DD when they were already constructed.....

Have fun experimenting!

Sarah

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Sarah Dale

I'm not scared, just too busy with tons of other stuff to take the time for the learning curve. I will get to it eventually. ;-)

I imagine holding one's head just right is required as well.

Hmm, I'll look into the hemming foot. I had planned on machine basting the hem in place on the 401a.

I don't really like the look of the coverstitch-then-seam look (at least in commercially produces garments). Anywhere I can't put up a hem using the coverstitch *after* the seams are sewn, I'll probably use some other method. But that's just me...;-)

Oh yeah! Thanks,

Beverly

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BEI Design

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