AI-ed.
I got AI-ed.
Is that a verb? I think it may need to become one, at least in this case.
Remember this post?
Delusional or not, I decided to go for it. Seriously, I got AI-ed. The designs that Chat offered were too good, too appealing, too tempting. Let’s goooooooo!
In my naivete, I figured the whole thing would take a couple of days.
😂😂😂
Oh boy, did I learn a great many things! I cannot possibly keep these to myself. These are my favorites:
If you look under your sink for the little valve handles to turn off the water, and they don’t exist, just stop for a second. Call a plumber. Don’t go to Home Depot and buy generic handles because they won’t fit right and won’t turn off the water. Also, don’t get curious and see if you can take the faucet hardware off just a little bit—you CANNOT. Trust me on this one. If the water isn’t ALL the way off, the little faucet hardware can blow like a volcano and flood your entire bathroom in SECONDS. For real. It’s incredible.
Know how to turn the water off to your house. Just know it.
Don’t spray paint your bathroom hardware. It SEEMS like a great money-saving solution, but it’s not, I swear. Well—spray painting does work for some things (toilet paper holder, hand towel holder, towel rack), and is a horrible idea for others (everything else!). Don’t do it for the sink or shower or bathtub. Even if you find a youtube video with a lady who uses spray paint to cover her fixtures and acetone to clean up the drips and smears, and they look PERFECT—she lies. I don’t understand why she lies, but she does. 🙄
Painting is just a million little steps that I want to skip. Patience is a virtue, and it is especially true when painting. Taping everything off is laborious and annoying, but makes painting easier. Priming makes me want to pull all the hairs out of my head, but does make the paint go on more smoothly. Painting cupboard doors is tricky—I laid them across my legs because I couldn’t figure out a better way…aaaannnnnnddddd it takes FOREVER. F.O.R.E.V.E.R.
Listen up!—you cannot change bathroom fixtures from one brand to another without some BIG demolition. If your house has Delta, you are a Delta house. If you have a Kohler sink, you are Kohler, baby. It’s like changing houses in Harry Potter…once a Slytherin, always a Slytherin. Just accept it and move on.
The greatest lesson I learned was how valuable a plumber, an electrician, and my phone can be. My limitations were so apparent, and my ability to call on the experts when needed was life-saving!
About six weeks after I started, the bathroom was DONE. It was not quite a DIY…more like a DIYWH (do it yourself with help😜). Regardless, I am happy with it and won’t put any more pictures of my house into Chat.
At least not til I’m ready to get AI-ed again.
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