What a 'prime' day.
Primer, primer, primer. Today is primer day. We've recruited help from my brother and Chris' friend, Andrew. Thanks for the help, guys!!
We finished up the master bedroom... AND ceiling. Well, one coat on the ceiling. And Andrew did a great job on the old wall papered wall in the kitchen with 2 coats of primer. The two paint-chipped walls were being sanded by Chris.
I finished texturing the hallway while they were getting Costco pizza for lunch. After lunch they started painting the freshly sanded walls. And much to our dismay, the paint was peeling off the spackle! Like it was lifting back onto the roller. WHAT THE HECK??? This totally sucks. So they moved onto the livingroom. We'll have to sand/patch the kitchen again later. We think maybe the nappy roller got dried up and had hard spots. Or there wasn't enough paint. Or they went over the spots too many times and the spackle got wet and didn't have time to dry so it lifted from the wall. Whatever happened, the shorter nap worked better in the living room.
They were able to put one coat of primer on two of the walls in the living room while I stripped the paint from the window frames. We bought some non-toxic orange scented paint stripper from Walmart. It works okay. I just have to wait longer. But dang, this window is taking forever. I only did about half the window so far. One application of the stripper stuff only seems to take off one layer of paint. For our window frame we've got sea foam green, then white, then sometimes a blue underneath. So it goes stripper, wait, scrape, stripper, wait, scrape, stripper, wait, scrape, scrub brush, sponge, rinse, sponge, rinse, sponge and maybe it'll be all off. Chris doesn't have the patience so I get to do it. =)
But let me tell you, the place looks so much better with the primer walls. Even though its all white, its 10 times better than that crap that was on it before. I can't wait until the color gets on the walls. FUN!! Chris' friend gave us her leftover can of red Behr paint for the kitchen and Chris got another flat version for the livingroom. We're almost there! Our Home Depot 10% coupon expires on Thursday so we'll be getting the rest of our color paint this week. I'd think color paint is more fun than primer.
We finished up the master bedroom... AND ceiling. Well, one coat on the ceiling. And Andrew did a great job on the old wall papered wall in the kitchen with 2 coats of primer. The two paint-chipped walls were being sanded by Chris.
I finished texturing the hallway while they were getting Costco pizza for lunch. After lunch they started painting the freshly sanded walls. And much to our dismay, the paint was peeling off the spackle! Like it was lifting back onto the roller. WHAT THE HECK??? This totally sucks. So they moved onto the livingroom. We'll have to sand/patch the kitchen again later. We think maybe the nappy roller got dried up and had hard spots. Or there wasn't enough paint. Or they went over the spots too many times and the spackle got wet and didn't have time to dry so it lifted from the wall. Whatever happened, the shorter nap worked better in the living room.
They were able to put one coat of primer on two of the walls in the living room while I stripped the paint from the window frames. We bought some non-toxic orange scented paint stripper from Walmart. It works okay. I just have to wait longer. But dang, this window is taking forever. I only did about half the window so far. One application of the stripper stuff only seems to take off one layer of paint. For our window frame we've got sea foam green, then white, then sometimes a blue underneath. So it goes stripper, wait, scrape, stripper, wait, scrape, stripper, wait, scrape, scrub brush, sponge, rinse, sponge, rinse, sponge and maybe it'll be all off. Chris doesn't have the patience so I get to do it. =)
But let me tell you, the place looks so much better with the primer walls. Even though its all white, its 10 times better than that crap that was on it before. I can't wait until the color gets on the walls. FUN!! Chris' friend gave us her leftover can of red Behr paint for the kitchen and Chris got another flat version for the livingroom. We're almost there! Our Home Depot 10% coupon expires on Thursday so we'll be getting the rest of our color paint this week. I'd think color paint is more fun than primer.
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