An ongoing project

Ongoing, in that the total number of trips to Home Depot is still unknown. We're at either three, or two if you don't count the first exploratory trip to see what materials were available. The project? I showed you the deficiencies we discovered when we put in new, skinnier toilet tanks. The project is to cover up alleviate those deficiencies. There has been a great deal of discussion (oh, my yes) to determine exactly how we were going to go about this. Barb was in favor of actually getting it done, so her approach was, "Who can we hire to do this?" My approach was, "You know, it really doesn't look that bad."

Primarily, the discussion centered around the back bath and the need to pull off the existing wallpaper and do something new there, since there was no possibility of matching the old wall paper after patching the hole. Barb went so far as to talk to a friend of ours who is experienced in this sort of thing; he came over and looked at it and said, if it were up to him he would just put wainscoting behind the tank.

Duh. Two (or three if you are picky) trips to Home Depot and two hours after getting home we have the results:

Now the discussion turned to the front bath. I'm all  in favor of more wainscoting, but SWMBO said paint. To my chagrin, the left over paint seems viable, so paint it is. After spraying on some texture (hopefully only three or four attempts there) we'll use a very skinny roller and apply some paint. Wainscoting may not be out of the picture yet, so this remains a work in progress. I'll let you know how many more trips it takes.