The past several weekends have been busy with various events so I haven't been able to get any projects finished (or started for that matter). I'm slowly plugging away at a project that will hopefully render one room in my home useful. Unfortunately if I start the use the room for it's intended purpose it can no longer be used as a place to store all my junk. It's a bit of a catch-22.

Anyway, as I'm sure you all know the first rule of painting is that no matter how careful you are you'll end up with paint everywhere. This anomaly seems to increase dramatically if you're not using basic white paint, or have various events you need at attend where it's not advisable to show up all speckled and splotchy like this:

PS - I've suffered a set-back with my bathroom makeover . I'd used two Command adhesive hooks to hang the painting, but one keeps falling off. I'd used them in order to avoid drilling any more holes in the wall tiles, but I'd rather not risk the painting fall off the wall and break my new shelf. Before I break out my drill does anyone have any other suggestions?

So, I've finally started my long put-off bathroom makeover. When I decided that there wasn't really anything I could do with the blue tiles I lost a little of my redecorating gusto (or maybe it was mojo?) . It's now returning in fits and starts, but that might be because in the last few weeks I have managed to collect a rather LARGE number of other projects that I will have to start on soon, rather than any great desire to try to make something of the bathroom.

After my last post on the subject, Rufusfrom Rufus' Food and Spirit Guide commented and suggested I embrace the Smurf blue  - well, I think I need to conclusively demonstrate that it's not the colour itself I dislike. For this reason alone I felt compelled to share this picture from last Halloween:

Back to my bathroom. The first step was determining how to fill-in the gap at the bottom of the wall between the baseboard and the floor tile. A common occurrence in older buildings is settling, and my building is no different with slightly off-kilter floors and doorways. This was the only immediately visible indicator of the settling  in my apartment, and it needed to be disguised.

What was a bit of a pain however, was painting my new trim,and then the baseboards and radiator. You don't think about how many nooks and crannies a radiator has until you have to tape around, and then paint one.

Anyways, after giving the trim and radiator two coats of  paint, I peeled back the tape I had so carefully applied and revealed this:

As I mentioned in my last post, I have a wee problem with my bathroom - I don't really like it. Most of my dislike stems from one particular feature - the tiles. They are a rather unfortunate shade of blue.

Don't get me wrong - I love blue, just not my blue tiles.

In my search for answers to the question 'can I paint shower tile' I got very mixed answers - some people insisted it was easy and durable, and others vehemently opposed it. Don't you love it when things are so simple?

I found a product at my local hardware store that is meant to be used to paint bathtubs. It's called Klenk's Epoxy Enamel, and it looked quite promising until I read the instructions and realised the amount of work involved for an outcome that was questionable. I was tempted, but when I read that some users recommended use of a respirator while applying the product I decided  it would be better to kill that idea than risk the loss of some much-needed brain cells.

I even went so far as to email the people at Benjamin Moore and ask for their advice. They very kindly sent me  instructions that were much less intimidating than those for the epoxy paint, but again there was no guarantee that  after I did all the work the daily showers wouldn't take their toll, and the paint wouldn't start to peel. If that happened,  I'm positive I'd dislike the tiles more than I do now and be forced to redo all the work, or spend a lot of money to replace them

In the end I proved to be too much of a chicken to try it. On a positive note, I do have a new mantra - 'Square blue tiles are the height of stylish bathroom design'.