My bedroom is painted.

[bloodsong1]

I have ruined a tshirt that's very close to the lilac color on the walls now, and a pair of socks, and the jeans I wore were already ruined from painting done at the office...three years ago.

I would like to inform Scotch that their blue painting tape is woefully unsticky when it should be *cough*baseboards*/cough* and entirely too sticky when it shouldn't, as my somewhat reddened fingers can attest to.

I did a quick Salt&Smoke before gathering all my necessary tools. I charged the gallon of paint with my intent for the room. I started on the East wall and went around the room three times; once with the big roller, once for the baseboards and lower trim, and then for the ceiling and top trim.

Painting while listening to reed flute and falling rain is very meditative. I enjoyed that.

It took me all afternoon, and that was with two 1 hour breaks between each go around to recover from the paint fumes and drink Gatorade and watch Top Gear.

I bought two gallons, on the recommendation of the Lowes paint reps, and used 9/10ths of one. I suppose I'll keep the second gallon for touchups and such.

I fail at wall prep. I didn't pull out any nails because I knew I was going to use them later and I have no idea if I even have wall putty. I didn't patch the hole in the wall from IDK slamming his door back. And even with multiple scrubbings, I could NOT get the various "I hate my mother" comments or room ownership declarations off. Painting over them hasn't done much good either and I never even considered priming cause, well, it was a WHITE room. Some of the marks and declarations can be hidden with furniture, but the stuff by the door is right above the heater vent, which I CAN'T block off.

I'm currently debating if I should go buy a sample of primer and prime that one area and then repaint over it. Or maybe I should just find something to hang in that area.

I did hang my rose iron mirror between the two North windows, moved the bookcase to its new home (must fill with manga and romance novels), and the big honkin' ottoman is in the center of the room. There's a lot of IDK's stuff still in there, and I've noticed the child's leaving clothes and things at the base of the spiral staircase. As he is sick YET AGAIN, I won't harangue him about that now, but before the end of the weekend, all of that stuff WILL be upstairs.

I'm TIRED.

Comments

[chezelliott.livejournal.com]

Primer or a white paint designed to cover dark paint should do the trick, then just paint over it with the lilac. Tell the clerk at Lowes that you need to cover writing on the wall.
How many coats did you do? Most paints require two complete coats to cover properly with the true color (according to the paint chip) even over a white wall.

[bloodsong1.livejournal.com]

I did one full coat, with patches of 2-4 coats in the problem areas. It dried pretty quickly and it's the newest Valspar paint, which touts 1 coat coverage. I'll have a look at it in proper daylight and see how I feel. Right now under artificial light it's more mauve, which tickles me.