This End Up, Classic Queen Platform Bed - Update and Improvements

We emptied out our storage unit of everything coming to Boston. One of the items we brought, that we have not had with us for two years, is our This End Up Classic Queen Platform Bed (my posts about the bed). When we went to reassemble the bed we found that the brackets for holding up the sides were rusted. We took a trip to Home Depot and looked for brass brackets as replacements but could not find what we wanted. Instead we wound up with brushes to remove the rust and paint to cover the brackets.
For brushes we used HDX Assorted Mini Brushes (3-Pack) and for paint we used Rust-Oleum Professional High Performance Enamel Gloss Black Spray Paint. I also used Permatex Fast Orange Fine Pumice Lotion Hand Cleaner as a lubricant with the brush and to help clean off the rust.
Here are some of the rusted brackets next to some of the cleaned brackets.

 

Shower Flow Restrictor Change

Holly and I moved in June 2018. We like the new apartment. The shower head had a nice enough spray pattern and adjusted  to a location that we liked but it did not have sufficient water pressure. In a prior post I stated that one of my favorite things to improve a rental bathroom is change the shower head. In this case we like the shower head well enough, but not the flow rate.
We still have our Moem shower head but have not yet installed it (though, now that I look at its flow rate and consider how much I have liked it, maybe I should).
Initially we removed all flow restriction from our shower head, but it was a bit too much and also seemed quite wasteful in terms of water usage.
So we bought a flow restrictor kit. We then tried each restrictor from 2.0 gallons per minute (GPM) to 4.0 GPM which is what we currently have and are happy with.

We removed the shower head using Vise-Grip. We then laid out all the flow restrictors. It looks like the shower was using a 1.5 GPM restrictor by default.

Bathroom Improvements while Renting

So, first, I'll start with a mistake.

I bought these  InterDesign Axis Loop Shower Curtain Hooks from Bed Bath & Beyond because I really liked the look. And I still do like the look and there have been no rust issues or anything. It's just that if you're not careful when moving the shower curtain one or two has a tendency to fall off the bar and this annoys me. So, we'll probably replace these.