Our Bathroom
So, we spent a ridiculous amount of time working on our bathroom. I think we started in April… and finished July 4th!!! That’s three months on one regular bathroom. We had to strip the horrible wallpaper. That’s what took so long. The first layer came off WONDERFULLY. It just “shhhhhhhhrp” came right off with one pull. From the top all the way down to the bottom. “Shhhhhhhhhhhhrp” “shhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrp” “shhhhrrrrpppp.” But it was that second layer that killed us. We rolled remover liquid on those walls. We scraped them. We sponged them. We picked at them. We grunted. We quit. My lovely husband finally picked a scraper up again and got the job almost finished for me. But it took forever. Then I patched scrapes and chunks that were taken out of the wall by the crappy scraper and the weak dry wall. Several parts of the dry wall just really crumbled when we went to remove that second layer. So the spackel began. And then the priming. And then the edging with the primer. And we had to pick out the color. First sample was too bland and brown-ish, second sample too bright and just screamed “I’M YELLOW!”, combination of them was good but not enough paint and still a little yellow. So I went to SW and they matched the color on some high quality paint and made it a little lighter. Our bathroom is now the perfect shade of yellow after only one layer of paint. I love it. I want to paint everything yellow now… but never remove wallpaper ever again.
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Anyone know a good, cheap home remedy for getting rid of rust stains? 
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