The Kids are Back in the Bedroom - Finally!
After weeks of drop cloths and rollers my kids are finally back in their room.
They have a lovely bright-white room with the ceiling trim painted a lovely pastel pink, and the bottom baseboards and thick trim around the closet painted a lovely pastel minty green.
It kinda looks like something out of a Pottery Barn Kids catalog and it makes me want to cry when I see it, because it’s so much better than the off-white it was before, complete with crayon, pen, lipstick, marker, and glue that was all over the walls. It looks like something out of a catalog.
Back when we were poor (I do not use that term lightly) one of Randy’s “before he was awesometastic” jobs was working with his cousin. His cousin had a commercial/residential painting company. Randy’s cousin is like the painting mafia. Perfection was necessary and Randy did his best to live up to his cousin’s expectations. He actually did a pretty good job - the only reason he left was that he got a management position at a local coffee house that had a ten second commute.
What this means is that when I need a room painted, I have a painter here on staff to take care of it. It’s a blissful feeling knowing he’s patching and edging and knows the difference between flat, eggshell, and semi-gloss paints.
Even better? Paint is expensive. Randy’s cousin ends up with leftover paint from all these different jobs he does and it’s a pain in the butt for him to dispose of it all properly. (There are laws, who knew!) So when we want to paint, Randy drives over to his house and says, “Hey cuz, what paint are you getting rid of?”
We currently have about twelve buckets of paint in everything from pastel pink, yellow, and green all the way to bright red and gray.
He is currently in the middle of painting our bedroom.
Sidenote: We thought the walls were white when we saw the house five and a half years ago. We really did. I couldn’t figure out why the house always felt, well, a little dingy no matter what we did. Once randy hit the girls’ room with the first coat of white, it was like a light went on! Our walls were all horribly off-white! So, even though I swore when I owned a home I wouldn’t paint all the walls white (white walls always felt like “apartment living” to me) it seems I’m sucked in.
Besides, I know how I want to decorate the rooms. You saw my scrapbook photo frame, right? I’m going to do more of those plus do some sayings so I don’t have to put vinyl stickers on the walls. I’m really excited about it.
Back to my bedroom. We’re doing white again, but our trim is going to be the lovely, subtle ice blue for both the top trim and the baseboards. Oh, and the baseboards were painted when we moved in, so we’re not the morons painting over wood. When I get my hardwood floors I’ve been dreaming of we are going to redo the baseboards at the same time so they are wood.
Pictures will be provided as soon as I have the dresser and bookcase painted for their room as well. I’m going to do a cool distressed effect where we paint them the light green, then a coat of white, and then use a fine piece of sandpaper to “distress” the white and let some of the green show through.
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That sounds so cute! I’m not a white walls fan myself, but I can imagine what you’re talking about and with the colored trim it sounds adorable. And I know exactly what you mean about getting rid of the offwhite. We bought our old house from hubs’ grandparents and the whole thing was painted this godawful offwhite that was nearly yellow, but since it wasn’t *actually* yellow it was HIDEOUS. And the trim was the same color as the walls - it was just blech. Felt so good to get color on those walls and make the trim a contrasting bright white!
Have fun - sounds like you are! And how totally suh-weet is that that your hubs is a good painter AND gets free paint?! SCORE! :oD
The colors sound great… and I’m not big on white walls either. I like a little “POP” to the room, even if it’s a subtle color.
Distressing wood - possibly the best way to relieve stress! Haven’t done that for years, I might have a reinvention weekend this weekend!