Labor Day Weekend Project

Over Labor Day weekend I decided it was time to get started painting the interior of the house. The paint that came in the house is very flat and poor quality. If Katie touches a wall with a dirty hand or anything gets on the wall it is quickly absorbed by the paint and will not come off. Any scrubbing of the walls, even gently removes the paint. Recently Katie decided to write on her bedroom wall with a washable maker, this should not have been a problem but my cleaning it off removed the paint. Another factor was that the color on the walls looked very dark in Katie's room and it really needed to be brightened up. It became clear that it was time to repaint and her room was a good place to start. 

I went with Yolo Colorhouse paint again to try and make it as environmentally friendly as possible. I collected some paint chips and let Katie pick the color. She had originally debated between pink and white but when she saw the paint chips she wanted white, the color is Air 01.

Here you can see a light spot on the wall, that is the new paint color on top of the old.

Katie was of course my willing assistant and really wanted to help.

When we finally got started putting primer on the wall she was having a lot of fun, almost too much fun. After a little while I decided to just put on Sesame Street to keep Katie busy while I worked or we might not get done or there might be paint everywhere.

Here the walls have been primed and the color is starting to go on, it looks yellow against the white but is nice warm light cream when dry.

This is the finished product, the sun was already down so there are some weird shadows but you get the idea.

Her furniture, mostly pink, looks good against the color. I also cut off the coax cables that were sprouting in her walls (when they come drill a hole in the wall and push the cable through) and patched them over. Her room is no longer cable/satellite ready but I do not have to push furniture up against the cables to keep them away from her.

Katie loves it, she kept coming in once the paint was up and telling me it was "so pretty" and that she liked it. Her room is now bright and cheery through the day rather than dark, even at night her little lamp is now enough light for the room.