Bikini Waxing the Bathroom Walls
... When we last saw our heroine, she was stuck inside her bathroom, painting fake ceramic tiles and questioning her life's choices. She knew there was one huge -- and unpleasant -- part of this project left to tackle. *** Last winter we realized that the paint on the walls above the "tiles" was failing. It became uncomfortably clear that this problem was the result of poor adhesion between paint layers that had been applied decades ago. I have a habit of assigning colorful names to situations like these, to help people understand what the issues are. In this case, we're going to refer to Bikini Waxing. If you've done much painting, you may have run into this problem. You apply your masking tape, and when you remove it, it pulls off the paint you were trying to protect. This can be a catastrophe, or it can be a Brilliant Solution. In our case, we knew that the paint was cracking, several layers deep. No amount of additional paint was go