CIL – You’re Good with Me
We painted the hallway years ago. Sponging was all the rage and we raged. We painted it a dark grey with some lighter grey effects, and therefore, the hallway was like a cave.
I liked it. I didn’t care that it was dark, after all, we had a hall light. However, the other day when I was looking for something in the linen closet (in the hallway) and couldn’t find it, I had a little hissy fit inside my head and said to myself, “WyTF do we have this painted so dark!”. It was then I decided that we needed to paint the hallway a nice, light colour.
Yesterday I went to Home Depot and picked up some paint… Mission Sand is the colour. And while we have quite a few rooms that have a darker beige (almost taupey) colour to them, this colour is a lot lighter than those, while keeping with the main colour scheme of our place.
So today we were painting. I told my snookey I’d wake him at 8:00 so we could get started. But at 8:00 (even though I woke up at 6:00 when my alarm went off for some reason), I felt a little guilty about waking him so early, so I let him sleep til nine – then I woke his lazy ass outta bed.
As the morning progressed, and I let him have a wake up tea – which I made him… I’m so sweet – it was more like noon by the time we got around to doing anything.
This time I did NOT buy the paint that’s supposed to act like a primer and paint all in one. When we painted the studio with that crap it was almost worse than just using paint by itself. So I just bought regular old paint, CIL, and let me tell ya, this light beige colour has done a good job of covering almost black walls. We will have to do a second coat, but I’m really impressed with the job it did, and we’re gonna head off in about half an hour to do the second coat.
That will not be the end of it, however. Oh no, I decided that all the door frames needed to be painted a nice, bright white and so I bought some of that too. That’ll have to wait til tomorrow when I’m working at home, but I don’t expect too much work since everybody else took a vacation day, except me… whose back-up is on vacation.
And after all that, it still won’t be the end. Because when I look at those walls, all I see are drywall joins. I don’t know what they had for standards back in the early 1400s when this place was built, but every foot going up the wall, you see separate drywall pieces put together. Maybe that was why we painted it so dark and spongey in the first place – to hide those.
Anyway, I figure we can buy some chair rail and find some wallpaper and wallpaper the bottom half of the room, below the chair rail. Don’t know what that’s gonna cost me since I already spent over $100 on the stuff I bought for painting, so I’m not too thrilled about that aspect, but if we can find a nice striped wallpaper, it may be in keeping with the rest of our strange decor. I think we might also buy another ceiling light – maybe one that has a few bulbs in it that we can direct in different ways. If we can find something like that, we’ll be able to see well inside that linen closet, although it is better now already with the lighter paint.
So you see… there’s no rest for the wicked. Holiday, schmoliday, there’s work to be done.
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The Boy Named Sue
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
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