Progress: And 1 inch of what may have been the original 1887 wallpaper. I like the green: I ended up using the circular saw to make grid cuts 12-18" apart. I used the multi tool to make cuts closer to the wall and corners where the circular saw couldn't clear. I tried different methods to pry the sections off; some were too narrow; some had too much flex. A 5" wide blade, hammered in and then pried down, did most of the work. Where the ceiling met the wall, I did a combination of breaking the paint and skim coat with a putty knife hammered upwards, and just cutting around with a multitool. There was only about a 1/8" thick bond to break through so it came away, thankfully, easily. I'd say it was altogether 10 hours in a 6 x 8 room to get this far--crazy! I definitely won't be doing the rest of the house. In most other rooms I plan to knock off the flecky balls and skim coat the ridged scallops, like Worthy suggests. In the double parlor, which has crown molding, I'll go through this routine. It's a great upper body workout! Some of the original ceiling is loose, so I'll be putting in some plaster washer anchors. You can also see where they poked holes to verify the location of studs. Those and the cracks will get fiberglass tape and patched. A little skimming, a little sanding, a little paint, and she'll be done. Of course, before all that, I'll do a thorough scrub down with tsp and water, then rinse, dry, and coat with benjamin moore calcimine recoater. Then plaster bonding agent to all the damaged places, and then fiberglass tape, patch/fill with durabond, knock down with a putty knife, then easy sand, then sanding, priming, and finally paint. What could be easier?!? Hope everybody else is having as much fun as I am this weekend! And yes, I'm saving a sample of the wallpaper for the house book.

This thread has made me laugh and laugh. Because I’m married I need a separate toilet. I love my husband but can’t abide him needing to using the same space as me while I put on makeup or take a bath or however else I have ended up trapped for much longer than him in a stinky bathroom. Even in renovating our temporary house, while we wait to build, excellent venting and the most powerfmil bathroom fan we could buy were absolute musts and I don’t regret a cent. But a separate room WITH those fans would make me happier, still. The injury/aging in place issue is interesting. I am just recently out of a wheelchair from a broken ankle and in fact could NOT use our front bathroom, which had the toilet and shower separated from the sink by a door. Not enough distance between doors to get in and get it closed or turn around. I could use our narrow-but-open master bath toilet though. The gas chamber issue in this house could have been rectified with proper space planning or even pocket doors though, and as we are designing an accessible home with our architect I am very sensitive to allowing proper turning radius space in bathrooms and appropriate distance between doors. And honestly, the suite area for our special needs son and older relatives will likely not have a door on that toilet, but just be around a corner with a half wall or something similar. Because while doors can be navigated, for someone permanently walker/wheelchair bound (like him) it’s a frustrating impediment. I’m weirdly glad for that aspect of breaking my ankle, because it gave me some very different perspectives on how spaces actually function from a chair when you CAN’T get up or hop around. So while the whole house design of our place will be universal/accessible to some degree, for actual day to day living activities the suite will be MUCH moreso. Water closets make me happy, I love them, but they do have limitations and need special design consideration when one is disabled or aging in place.

We only use the disinfecting wipes outside. We bring them into the stores with us to wipe the carts, and then to wipe our hands after we come out of the store. I have an endless supply of disinfecting wipes from work, but I really don't use them much beyond this purpose. TP and paper towels are still spotty for us. I have been in stores that were stocked and those with empty shelves. I think it is more the day of the week (on weekends there are likely to be no paper products) and time of day (earlier in the morning has been better). Even though we are stocked up on these products now, it is hard not to have a panic mentality and feel like you have to stock up at every opportunity because the supply could end at any time. I have been carefully talking myself down from these thoughts, but they do crop up.

"I wonder why so many Pros on Houzz hate toilet rooms," I thought to myself, as I flushed the toilet in mine, turned the fan on and closed the door to prevent any possible smell from escaping since my husband was in the shower at the same time. I washed my hands in the double sink vanity with drop-down makeup table before walking across the LVP floor to my master closet inside the master bath to get dressed, then exited through the barn door separating the master bath and bedroom. I entered the kitchen and stood at the stainless steel double-bowl farmhouse sink in the island with quartz countertops to wash the breakfast dishes my kids used while they watched the TV above the fireplace in the 17-foot vaulted great room. "I don't know," I ruminated. "But maybe I should have added a window to the toilet room. I have an idea - I'll post my houseplans on Houzz and ask."