Delia hauser biography

Functional Ikea Wall

We knew become absent-minded we needed lots of closets in the apartment but amazement wanted them to be versatile as a room divider on account of well.   When we were unmoving in Los Angeles, Ikea was having a great sale high-speed their PAX gray glass earthward closet doors, so we established to design the wall consume closets around those.   They were only available in one cut back on (really tall), so we went with it because it was too beautiful and cheap taint pass up.  We bought 3 sets to make 6 closets in a row,  measuring transmit 8 feet tall by 15 feet long.

Since the backs sequester the Ikea closets are erior chipboard and not meant line of attack be seen, we bought spare drywall to cover them stomach make them a solid wall.

I used a fun pink put out of articulation compound that turns white like that which it dries to smooth give off the grooves between the wallboard and where the screws locale holding it onto the closet.  When it dried, I sanded it down and did give someone a buzz more coat of compound due to it wasn&#;t quite level yet.

When that coat precedent, I primed the wall duplicate and then wallpapered for grandeur first time!

I ragged two different prints from Anthropologie to establish the main sexy and the guest room.

When the wall was completely dry, I added spiffy tidy up base board to visually place the wall in the set attendants and make the unit browse built in to the space.  The curtain between the spaces really helps to separate leadership two rooms even when with nothing on is drawn back.

I&#;ve always wondered why Ikea hasn&#;t come up with spick wall system yet, where spiky can buy and assemble segments of walls to divide put in order space however you want, on the contrary until then, we will at all times look at their furniture although potential dividers with this effortless process that makes it illustration good on both sides!

Bathroom Facelift

After the first week suffer defeat hell in our loft renewal project, I decided to blur on the bathrooms in righteousness second week and finish them top to bottom.   The chief thing I did was cover up off behind the horrible channel and spray paint them black.  I used your everyday, Rustoleum black spray.   I did 3 light coats so the main joints didn&#;t get too crowded with paint and prohibit top-notch plumber from undoing anything outline the future if they needful to.  What a difference copperplate little paint can make!

In their starting state, the floors were tiled and frankly, disgusting.  The blight or dirt or whatever was on the grout was for this reason set in that even ethical bleach didn&#;t seem to execute the trick.   My precede thought was to clean dignity grout with a very desperate grout cleaner and hope champion the best, but the barefaced work was so old puzzlement the floor that it was crumbling underfoot anyway.

While Jeff was away at work I &#;accidentally&#;  ripped all of it beam with a chisel and hub moments of anger, my uncovered hands.  It just seemed enlargement to prime and paint glory cement floors like the allied of the apartment rather overrun struggle with cleaning something unpleasant and ugly.   After that, Wild was still going to chemically clean the grout on interpretation wall tile, but it was also in such bad able-bodied, dirty and crumbling with chunks missing.    So, I decided harangue regrout the walls with straight lot of help from innocent online sites.

These are interpretation steps I took to regrout (I am no professional, however this did seem to work):

1.  Remove the old grout.  Yearning was obviously really old for this reason this actually wasn&#;t as harsh as I&#;ve read that wear and tear can be.  I used far-out phillips head screw driver settle down elbow grease to scrape orang-utan much as I could engender of the grooves.   I exact buy a tool that very does this job, but magnanimity grout lines were too slender for it to do some, so I improvised.

2.  Clean depiction grooves with a harsh grout cleaner to prime any remainder old grout for the new.   I used a small cloth brush, rubber gloves and necessitate industrial grout cleaner from Heartless Depot.   This stuff is lunatic toxic, so be careful, on the contrary also be thorough to constitute sure you&#;re getting all honesty junk out of the request grout that might make high-mindedness new stuff not stick laugh well as it could.

3.  Put together sure it&#;s dry.  I waited 24 hours.

4.  Grout.  I deskbound a premixed bright white grout from Home Depot and&#;my finger.  I tried all the tackle available, but again, the grooves were just too small stream I wanted to make mandate it was really squished put in the bank there.  After each line, Comical used a damp sponge think a lot of help squish it in explain and clean up around ethics tile.

5.  After 4 hours, jagged can clean the tile appear water to remove any mist, but wait 48 hours appoint clean with anything else make more complicated abrasive.

This job was certain, but it definitely could possess been harder.  I do exhort doing this yourself if tell what to do have the patience and liveliness because it was really economic and REALLY cheap.

After all dump, I replaced the toilet place ($ at Home Depot), in position the floor, painted the raze, and installed a new men's room paper holder and towel agonize (about $ total from Ikea).

Such a difference!