If These Walls Could Talk - They Would Scream
I scream, you scream, we all scream when our walls resemble spumoni ice cream.
That’s how that rhyme goes, right?
Okay, I didn’t scream when I saw the walls of our guest bedroom. It was more like an ‘Oh my god’ mouthed in disgust. Of all the hideousness of all the wall colors in this house, this one took the ice cream cake. When Jack asked ‘which room do you want to paint first?’ My answer was delivered swiftly with gusto: THE SPUMONI ROOM.
Admit it - you hardly noticed that I slipped a picture of actual Spumoni into this collage. There was nothing that looked appetizing about this room. Trust me.
The other walls were solid mint green (except for the smudges of dirt and other muck. Because, obviously) and there were some budding artists doodles here and there in permanent marker.
This had been the previous owners children’s bedroom, and the nasty stuff I cleaned out of here rivaled the kitchen in degrees of awful. I don’t know what the muck I cleaned out of the built in shelf was, and I hope I never do.
After all the cleaning, we had to fill the holes and cracks, sand the walls, sweep and vacuum to prep for priming. One of the walls must have had a shelf or bookcase that had been removed at one point, and it left behind a funky wall we tried our best to patch up.
The pink paint slopped in stripes on the wall would be a challenge to cover up, but we were confident that Kilz primer could kill anything. First, it snuffed out the gag worthy smell in this room (the smelliest of the smelly rooms) - it would smother that pepto pink.
We painted two coats of primer on the pink walls
Oh, hi there! Jack paints the crawl space in the closet
Priming that nook was the last step before we painted! We got some brand spankin’ new brushes to get the job done!
But just as we were nearing the finish line, we were infected by the plague…
Okay fine, it wasn’t the plague, but it was some nasty flu. It took the enthusiasm out of the painting and slowed us both down for several weeks. I did manage to paint the room while battling exhaustion, with the help of several liters a few cups of strong coffee and ABBA (Swedish pop gives me life!) on repeat - but it was tough.
you can dance, you can jive…
and then crash #iwasthispug
My exhaustion did make me kind of sloppy. I ended up with a lot of paint on my clothes and in my hair. Meh #tootiredtocare #ileftthehouselikethis
Success! We painted this room with BEHR PRO i100 Interior, Dead Flat No.110 in Swiss Coffee. We bought a five gallon bucket of this stuff because we planned on using it in a few rooms. It is a really heavenly, soft white. This guest room will feel like a very comfortable and tranquil space once I’m through setting it up.
On to the next room. Ain’t no rest for the wicked, or the wicked tired.