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Chelsea Lipford Wolf hosts this fun and informative DIY web series and blog. New episodes posted on the 1st of each month!
Putting Together All the Elements of a Bathroom The design, style, and layout of our small, master bathroom addition. Traditional meets modern while balancing budget and splurge! After all of my thoughts and musings on bathroom vanities, showers, toilet rooms, and closets, I had a pretty good idea of the layout and measurements of our bathroom addition
You don’t want to use a metal smoothing tool like a drywall knife because it can cut your paper. My paper was pre-pasted, so I brushed liquid starch on the wall, lined up the paper at the top, and then held the paper off the wall with my head/body while I reached my hand around to smooth it down and out. I think what made it most difficult was mistake #1 (having barely enough wallpaper), so I was painstakingly matching up the piece of wallpaper along the door frame, crown molding, baseboard, window seat, and adjacent seam all at the same time while also trying to smooth out bubbles. As you may be able to tell in the photos, after the wallpaper was hung, I installed trim around the window and updated the trim on top of the doors.
Since this letter is large and wide, I decided to glue and clamp the 2 halves separately. Another reason-I didn’t want to use any fasteners, just wood glue. And since I still haven’t figured out how much glue to use per square inch, I just use a lot and so clean up is usually necessary. Because the hooks of the bungees wrapped underneath the boards, I set 2 scrap boards underneath as well near the middle to keep the boards from caving into themselves and ruining the glue bond in the middle.
BUT I was able to help a friend update/makeover/upcycle, her grandmother’s old chest of drawers into a fun and cute ‘closet’ of sorts for her daughters’ princess dresses! We made sure to maintain the bottommost drawer glide to use later for a pull-out shoe rack. For the shoe rack, I removed the face of the old bottom drawer and measured and marked the sides to be the same height as the floral piece previously at the top of the dresser, essentially creating a box. Since the sides of the dresser were fairly thin, I also added 2 blocks from scrap dresser pieces to give support to the future clothing rod.