And all I wanted to do was paint the bathroom

It was a bit of a whirlwind weekend, and though we did accomplish quite a bit, we have even more work left to do. Saturday was filled with yard work and apartment cleaning (yes, we waited until the very last minute to get everything cleaned out of the apartment). However, we did manage to get both of those tasks squared away by the end of the day.


I had predicted that Sunday would be a nice, leisurely day of painting the bathroom, but as we have found out before, everything that we do on the house takes twice as long as we anticipate.


I had all of the supplies lined up and was taking down everything in the way (shower curtain, light switches, etc.) and went to unscrew the mirror. Yet even after unscrewing the mirror, it was still hanging on the wall. I probably should have stopped at this point, but thinking that the mirror might just be stuck from previous paint jobs, I wedged a screwdriver behind it, which put about a two-inch crack in the mirror. Now we're planning on getting a new mirror (and new sink and faucet), so I wasn't too terribly upset (although I did have plans for framing it and putting it in the guest bedroom). At this point, I called in Daniel as reinforcement... still no luck in getting the mirror off the wall. However, we did find this site from the Washington Post that offered a couple of suggestions (including hiring a professional). To start, we duct taped the entire mirror to keep it from shattering onto the floor:



And from there, we broke it into pieces and pried it (along with a nice chunk of the plaster) from the wall. About halfway into out mirror-smashing effort, we also realized that there was a huge, gaping hole behind the mirror that once housed a medcine cabinet.


Needless to say, we were back to Lowe's (yet again).