Erasing the Walls with Paint, Etc...

After the floor guys were done, we were left with an icky splatter of glue remover up to about shin-level on all of our walls.



This made me sad because we didn't plan on painting the bedrooms because we liked it just fine the way they were. Sooo, I decided to "erase" the brown-ick by dipping a rag in paint and rubbing the spots away. It worked!!



I'm so glad it did, because it still took me two days to paint the closets and trim in all of the bedrooms.

Thursday I began on the hallway. What a fiasco. I bought some light brown paint that, according to the paint swatch, was a really light shade of the color of the couch we purchased. Once on the walls, it looked like a malted milkshake--you know how they are kind of muavish in hue. Did not work at all. So I had to go and buy more neutral, this time I went with a safe cozy cream. I like it.

Let's see, what else have we accomplished this week? Chris has redrywalled the entire kitchen and has started the mud and putty phase. Today he hopes to finish it off with some texture so that we can paint the cieling in there.






We also had Mark, the contractor guy who is helping us out, move the utility sink that was in the sunroom to the laundry room.





He has also built a pedastal for our water heater to be 1.5 feet off the ground and is constructing a closet for it, so that it'll be a sealed off combustion air zone (up to code).