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There are some places where you’ll want to use MDF for it’s straightness, while there will be other places where a small piece of wooden trim will looks best once everything’s painted.

We had made good progress elsewhere in the house, and Chris thought that he might start to do a little demo work in the bathroom since we still had a bit of room in the dumpster.Honestly the bathroom had gotten so bad that we weren’t using it anymore.

I’ll save those pictures for the full before and after post at the end of this project!It was a wheelchair accessible bathroom, so there wasn’t much of a difference in slope between the shower and the regular floor.Water had been splashing there for the last 30 years and we knew there was mold under there somewhere.. Well, as it always goes with these things, Chris pulled the flooring back and found that it was even worse than he’d thought.

Isn’t that always the story?We knew at that point that we couldn’t just do a bit of demo work right now and then more later, we just needed to get all of that mold out NOW!.

I honestly wasn’t really fond of Chris being in there breathing all of that in, so we decided to call in a contractor, just to help us get the place safe and get all the nasty stuff out so we could have a blank slate.

About 2 days later, here’s how things looked.. A few of the floor joists actually needed to be replaced because they were so bad.Rustic Easter Bunny Silhouette SignOne Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago while I was getting ready, Chris came and knocked on the bathroom door.

What do you need now?” came my standard response.I thought he was going to ask me why the sugar bowl was empty or something like that again.

“No”, he said “this is something that you’re interested in.” OK, fine.He had come to a decision, he said, that he couldn’t just leave the wall in the bedroom upstairs how it was, he had to tear out the ugly panelling and put in drywall.