Home improvements

[cjsmith]

My itch to retile the bathroom is getting severe. (For viewers just now tuning in, the one public bathroom in my house has a tub-surround tiled in Mary Kay Pink. No, a little darker: Pepto-Bismol Pink.)

Etiology: Trying to take a weekend day off work results in me being inside my house.
Symptoms: I re-read the tiling book and the bathroom remodel book.
Prognosis: Those books are very effective and I am well on my way to being cured of this outbreak. Removing me from the house would speed recovery.

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Re: someday I'll escape from pink tile bathrooms

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what is UP with pink tile? Sheesh! I'm getting almost as tired of that as I was of the 1970s mustard- and avocado-colored refrigerators that seem to be in almost every apartment on the peninsula.

My place was built in the mid-fifties, but had had some interior rework done at various times. I actually think the pink tile might be pretty new. I know all the carpets were new when we bought the place, for example. Or, hey, it could be surviving from the original construction. Gah.

Thanks for the luck! This is the kind of house where, if you try to replace a light switch, you keep uncovering more and more problems until you wind up having to move a wall. I'm scared of what's behind that tile.