I have just finished a second coat of paint on our bedroom and I just have two thoughts:
1. Our bedroom is entirely too large.
2. I miss my painting buddy. The “rolling” role that is usually filled by J. is a lot of work.
I have happily graduated to doing the trim work without any blue tape, though. Come to find out I can freehand the trim much straighter and faster than if I had taped it.
So, in case you have forgotten here is what we have been living with for the past four years…
It kinda looks like I haven’t cleaned off my nightstand in the past four years, doesn’t it? And while I kept saying the wallpaper “really isn’t that bad,” it is kinda old-ladyish and enough is enough.
So, we kicked around color ideas for many months, and we debated whether we should de-wallpaper before painting for at least as many months. We decided (after our big failed attempts in Em’s room) that whatever wallpaper glue they used in the 60s kind of disintegrates the 100-year old stucco that our walls are made. And our walls are incredibly smooth right now – you can’t even find the seams…so we decided that the wallpaper will stay.
The color debate was a much harder one to decide.
I liked the Restoration Hardware Silver Sage there in the middle – J. said it was too “green.”
J. wanted a blue, maybe a robin’s egg color or “Tiffany” blue – I said they were all too “blue.” I can’t wake up to a room that is that…bright. So we finally agreed on a color – called appropriately, “Hydrangea.” It is really pretty. But, you will all have to wait til tomorrow to see a pic because it is just too dark to really see it tonight.
On a completely different wild hair…I’ve been cleaning out everything. Every time I walk through a room I’m constantly scouting things that I can Craigslist or donate or pass off to friends. Just Saturday I was eyeing up the girls’ play kitchen in the playroom and I thought to myself, “they don’t ever even play with it anymore, I should just get rid of it.”
Yeah. You know what is coming. The VERY next day…I walk out into the front lawn and see this…
Every piece of food and every last dish from the kitchen was out in the lawn being used for a “family reunion picnic.”
Drats. It is like taking toys from a baby…
…and I can’t deny my babies those little things that bring them such joy, now can I?
Can’t wait to see the new bedroom…Cute pics of the girls.
Hugs & Kisses
My nightstand looks the exact same way!! I also always do the trimming out and Mitch does the rolling. I hope your wrists feel better soon. I know it will be worth it!!
There is plenty of time to get rid of the brightly colored plastic later…..and once it’s gone – you do miss it – at least a little bit.
Ah those bedroom pics take me back. When I first moved into my house in the UK I stripped the wallpaper…and CEILING paper. The last was a mistake. The ceiling was trashed as a result and as I couldn’t bear standing on a ladder with my head tilted back for any length of time, that bedroom NEVER got finished! I know yours will be a whole lot more successful and I look forward to the photos.
It is so much fun to see pics of your OWN house — even with all the work! It has to feel a lot better knowing that you will be able to stay and enjoy it!! Love those pics of those 2 sweet girls. Is Emma tying to say something with a “Family Reunion” picnic? Sounds good to me!