Battling a Rain Shower Head – Wet My Pants!

Gotta hang wallpaper above the shower tiles in this cramped space in an under the stairs powder room .  Between priming , measuring , hanging , yada, I had to make many trips in and out of that space. The sloped ceiling and confined area of the shower stall are difficult enough to work around.  But factor in the rain style shower head , and it got more tenuous.

But I was able to squeeze myself, my ladder , my tools , and the wallpaper strips , around, over, and under that monstrous thing.

Besides all that physical contorting, another issue  was … as I was climbing down off my ladder , my clothing got entangled in the wall-mounted faucet – and turned the water on! 

Yes, I got a dousing!  And the shower floor got wet , so my socks and feet got soaked , too! 

Not that bad, though.  And, to be honest, it was kinda funny.

This is a newish home in the Houston Heights .  Coincidentally enough, I’ve hung a good number of powder rooms with this same lay out layout .    Turns out the builder is well-known in the Heights, and uses this same floor plan models in many new build s. 

I just hope that next time, the homeowner chooses a wall-mounted showerhead! 

Retro Look in Kitchen

Breakfast area before

Breakfast area after … with my work table set-up still in the middle of the room.

Kitchen sink / window area before.

Finished

This fruit-and-floral motif is a very retro look, which was popular in the 1950’s – early 1970’s . The background looks like linoleum tiles – very period-appropriate.

Close-up.

Exclusive Wallcoverings saw the current interest in retro / vintage looks, and designed this very appropriate pattern.
This was a thin and very flexible non-woven material , and was a delight to work with.
As are all non-wovens, this is designed to strip off the wall easily and in one piece when it’s time to redecorate.
To install , you can paste the paper or paste the wall .
This home is in the Lexington Woods area of Spring , ( north Houston ).

A Few Tricks of the Trade

Artist’s chalk pastel stick, for coloring edges of dark wallpaper, so the white substrate does not show at the seams.

Craft store paint, for diluting and striping under where wallpaper seams will fall, to prevent the stark white wall below from peeking out.

Blue plastic “cut tape.” I place this along the top of a strip of wallpaper, to prevent paste from getting onto the molding or ceiling.

In the instance pictured above, the left edge of that strip of wallpaper was going to lap onto the newly tiled wall. A pain to wipe paste off all those small and irregular tiles.

Running protective blue plastic tape down the left edge of the wallpaper strip kept paste from getting slopped onto the tile, and eliminated the need to wipe areas clean