painted my room...

I've spent several late nights and afternoons over the last couple weeks painting my room. To make the experience even more extreme, somewhere in there I got myself good and flu'd up. Fun! Pics of the work in progress follow. Admittedly, not exactly chock full of what I'd call entertainment value, but hey, it's *my* blog.

Eat it.

My Big Idea was to color my room to remind me of the beach—so each wall would have a blue sky/ocean top, and a sandy bottom. Heh heh. Sandy bottom. =)

Let's see... It took me two days to tape and newspaper up the room to make ready to paint the blue sky/ocean upper portion of the walls. That took a lot longer than I'd anticipated, cuz of my naive two-tone ambitions, donchaknow. It was no simple feat to level, pencil in, and then tape a straight line at a constant height on the walls all the way around the room. Bleah.

The next two days I got two coats of blue on. I originally started with Evening Symphony, but when it dried down, it struck me as too dark. So I picked up the Provence for coat number two. It covered up pretty well. Once I got that on the walls, I let the drying paint duke it out with the dehumidifier for a day, just cuz. Also, it was Thursday, and I had league vball and wasn't up to tackling the job once I got home that night. Also also, I think that's when my flu-ness really kicked in.

The next day, I removed the tape and NYTimes and put down new tape and newspaper, this time to protect the newly painted blue so that I could paint the beach bottom. I took two days to get two coats of beachiness on the lower part of the walls. The day after that I removed all the tape and weddings and obits, then put down some protective tape around the window so that I could paint the "well" that the window sits in. Then, two days for two coats of sunshine—that's right, I said sunshine, wannafide abouddit?— on the well walls.

Sunshine, see?


And finally, I de-taped around the well. Hrmm... what's that work out to...? I started w the levelling and taping on Sunday evening... and de-taped the well on Wednesday morning. Wack, a week and a half. Not the most aggressive schedule, I suppose, but whatEV, I got it done in time to get away this weekend and I'm pretty pleased w the results.





Anyone need to make a leatherface mask for Halloween? Latex paint dried in and peeled from a teflon pan looks like it could do the trick...


Keep on keepin on~