A painter
As of last week we have owned our house for two years. Until a couple of weeks ago, when I started experimenting with paint, our house has looked exactly the same as the day we first toured it (even down the curtains and valances the previous owners left). A few minutes ago I finally got around to finishing one of the two rooms I had put color samples on.
The first room I attempted was the laundry room. I took the advice of the guy at Home Depot and used silicone over the tape to make a crisp line. Instead of buying silicone at Home Depot I decided to use some my husband had in the garage. When I went to paint over it I noticed the paint wasn't sticking. That's when I realized I'd used waterproof silicone for bathrooms and kitchens! YIKES! A month later I am still sanding the walls to be able to complete that project.
The other project I've attempted recently is our 2nd bathroom. It is the only bathroom other than our master and, though it is a full bathroom, it is about the size of a powder room. I figured . . . small room . . .this will be easy. I put my kids down for a nap and started painting.
First, my roller started shedding, so I wiped the walls clean and got a new one (different kind) out of the garage. I noticed a few minutes later IT started shedding. Yikes. I found a foam roller in the garage and started using that. As I was painting I decided to scrape off a drip from when I had used the tester . . . and managed to take off a 6"x6" piece of drywall.
I then had to stop and patch the hole. I continued to paint, waited more than the alloted time, and painted over the spackle. As I went over the spackle it started to come up and I'm back to having a hole there.
I'm still in my painting clothes, I haven't put the paint away, and I'm waiting for the walls to dry before I see how bad the damage really is.
:( UGH! What a hassle! I'd gladly hire my hubby out to you....he did an awesome job painting the rooms in our old place.
ReplyDeleteOh it sounds like you should put down the brush and walk away. If I wasn't so far I'd come help, I painted and sanded most of the walls in my mom's old house and refinished the hardwood floors. I hope it dries and my advice for spackle it let it dry a day or two I know what it says but sometimes a day later you realize it has a bubble and needs to be fixed.
ReplyDeleteGirly, I am so WITH YOU. I HATE to paint, never was very good at it and had some escapades like yours. I'm grateful my hub does a great job at painting. But between the two of us there are some things that we just don't do well ... that's when we tweak the budget to hire professionals! Sorry you're going through that. :-( xoxox
ReplyDeleteUgh. Definitely no advice from me--I'm not a painter either!
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