Oh! Let's Make Sure It's PRETTY!!!!

Well, it's Spring Break, so I'm taking a week off. Are we going to the beach? Nope. Mountains? Nope. DC, Williamsburg, or any other close and fun destination? Nope, nope, nope.

This is Meg, remember, so I must fill the week with a project!

Now, I have learned since the ceiling fan fiasco that NO home repair/improvement project comes without an unexpected twist. And, since my project for this week is stripping the wallpaper from the downstairs powder room and painting it (I HATE wallpaper), I know enough to know that wallpaper has it's own special level of hell associated with it. So, I didn't expect this to be a walk in the park.

But, OMG, whoever installed this paper was without a doubt a special demon from Hell. A true follower of Lucifer himself, and probably his own special protege, because I have never seen such a maze of ungodly traps set for any assuming person.

Forget the overlapping wallpaper in the corners; that's standard, and I expected it. Same with the wallpaper all the way behind the toilet tank; gotta do it, a paint to deal with, but I can work with it.

And, I knew that the wallpaper would go behind SOME fixtures; the towel bar, certainly.

But what's getting to me is that whoever hung this stuff wasn't consistent in how well/how much they overlapped fixture and paper. In some places, there's a half an inch or so, in others it just goes up to the edge.

But, for some demonical and unbeknownst reason, they TOOK THE BLOODY LIGHT FIXTURE OFF SO THAT THE PAPER COULD GO BEHIND IT!!! Holy Smokes people, was that really necessary?

Oh, and not only that, but in a couple of places it seems that the wallpaper paste (which is a big enough pain in the tuches to get off a wall) just wasn't doing it for them, so they decided to use something else to stick the paper to the wall. I haven't figured out what yet; it looks like Elmer's glue, but acts like Super Glue; regardless, it ain't fun to get off the wall.

Sheesh.

Memo to anyone considering wallpaper out there:

1. Don't. Just don't.
2. If you ignore rule #1, do not, repeat DO NOT use any other sticking mechanism other than paste to adhere said wallpaper to the wall. I don't care how neat and pretty it makes it look, do NOT do this. Pretty is as pretty does, and if you do this your karmic beauty will go down the toilet.

So, at this point my mirror is off the wall, my light fixture is hung askew (tried to get off, and the fixture part is, but the grounding wire is permanently stuck to the box, and is NOT coming off), there's bits of paper strewn around my bathroom, and I'm cranky.

I really do like DIY stuff....really....