I don’t need to watch HGTV these days… I’m living it.  lol.

Remember our guest bedroom?  The one with the crazy stained/water damaged subfloor and the hole in the ceiling??

Well, it’s almost “done”!  (However, it was not without a few arguments over the entire “smoothing” process… the repair made it that much more difficult!) The trim .. I will paint after the contractor comes to put in the new underlayment on Friday.  Before I show the awesome wall color photo, let me share a new love affair with Glidden’s color-changing ceiling paint.  OMG, amazing.  We had first tried the Behr ceiling paint, which, I guess was OK but it was SO HARD to tell where you put the paint on.  With the Glidden paint, it appears you’re painting the ceiling pink.  Which, is weird psychologically but great for getting good coverage in ONE COAT (well, counting primer, it’s two coats).  When you return to the room an hour later, it’s all magically evenly WHITE!    Oak has become the local ceiling-rolling expert..

I do almost all the other painting tasks, but I have to applaud Oak on his abilities to evenly paint the ceiling.  It gives me a serious neck and shoulder ache.  The top (un-pink) part of the photo is where the hole WAS!  whoot whoot.

One paint that we tried in this room that we did NOT enjoy was Zinsser’s primer.   It was super super thin – even painting over the beige that was there left a very uneven color!  The gray covered it, of course, but in the meantime we were almost dying from the uber strong fumes as well.  We will be sticking with our Kilz, thanks.

Here are some “almost-after” shots (just imagine some nice shiny white trim instead of the sloppy edges.. haha):

Can you believe I painted the entire ceiling line without taping or any other tricky devices?  It’s like I am getting some serious painting skills or something.  I just don’t have the patience to do that with the trim.  yet.  For now, I will tape…

You may be thinking… that dark gray is not a very Carrie-esque color.  Well, it was some “oops” paint, which cost a grand total of $5 for the room.  And, because this is the guest bedroom to some extent I do not want to offend our guests with a crazy wall color. lol.   However… I have some plans on introducing color into the space (let’s channel my design buddy/hero David Bromstad..)

I’ll be back with the basement bedroom pictures soon.  It’s completely done, but apparently I forgot to take some pictures.  Whoops!

Posted by Carrie on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Categories: blog, home improvement · 4 Comments »