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I have a regular 9-5 job but my commute to work is about 5 hours a day, that makes it 14 hour days (70 hours a week) that leaves with just a couple hours before I go to bed but I try to do as much as possible when I get home, I thought the house will be painted in the past weekend and then over the week I would have time to work in details, boy was I wrong!
Above is the dining room the first day we ever walked into the house, I never got over the fact that it has an slanted ceiling, of course I would have loved if it was a cathedral ceiling, but slanted? there is no symmetry. The picture below, makes the shape of the room so much worst,. I have no idea what the box is, it sits right under the stairs to the second floor, yet, it has nothing to do with it, is one of the great mysteries in the house that I can not wait to decipher.
The reason I choose yellow for the room is because is a color full of energy and since we will be spending most of our time in here it seemed like the way to go.
To the side is what I call, a spackle mess, our guess is that there was a french door where there is now windows and the former owners didn't finished the job, there are little holes and spackle all over the place; my guess is also that they had a very deep love for nails, push pins, safety pins and anything that can go on a wall, as I started to fix the mess I realized more spackle was needed to conceal all the miniature holes int he walls, there must have been about 100 of them, I think they used to just hang all papers with a push pin. A reveal of our yellow ceiling, yes, I mentioned before how I really don't like the slanted ceiling so having some knowledge of color and shapes, it was discussed and decided that to make it look more even to just go with one color in the entire room was a savvy choice.
More and more tiny holes all over the places, can you see?? |
This is when fate came in to prove me wrong, at about 1 am on that Saturday night and we ran out of paint after just doing the ceiling and that one little corner. All embarrassed to admit I was wrong, "because I have helped or painted every single place I have lived in since I was a little girl" I called DFB which was at work, his answer, "I told you so", don't we all love to hear that? Ha.
Frustration settled in, I made drinks for my mom and my cousin which were helping me, (cousin painted the entire ceiling) and we all agreed that one more can should be enough, right?
Within the next few days, DBF stopped by Lowes to pick up another can of paint, got on to work, came to bed in the middle of the night to tell me: Honey, we ran out of paint! so I was WRONG again. The next morning when I was getting ready to work, I ran downstairs thinking that I must have had a bad dream, and "surprise" an empty can and a mess all over the place, how can this be possible, how?? 2 gallons of paint and the walls were not even entirely covered. He must not know how to paint? I cant be wrong that many times. Anyway, that same day, he headed to the hardware store, grabbed a third gallon of our now-hated "Like butter" and to attack the walls again. That night I was so anxious waiting for him to come over to tell me how gorgeous our walls looked that I couldn't even sleep, I was about to get up to get ready when he came to the room to announce, I am finished but I don't like the way the walls look, once again, I went downstairs, observed the walls and decided that after the paint cures I should be all fine.
Tino totally approves the color, that has been his spot once we moved the sofa and started painting, I wonder if he understand what is happening or if he is just thinking that we humans are crazy. |
Until next time,
Sobe
Hi sobeida !!! Some tips ...If you are using an acrilic paint (a lot of people call this type water-paint )you have to paint 3 or 4 times the same area to have a good effect.I'm watching that the color base of the wall is grey and that's problem cause you are wasting a lot of paint !!!!! Try to glaze with white and then,only then ,use the yellow and you you 'll see the difference If it works, you 'll save money and time BUT you 'll have to cook one of your famous cake for me and milly asap !!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Raffaele, Yes, I should know better about the color, but I let myself go with the "primer + paint", thinking it will get the job done. The more we painted the more I knew we should have done the firs coat with white/ primer as DBF suggested. For the cake... then you guys have to come to NY and visit!
DeleteOk for sure the second travel of milly will be in Ny (the 1st in italy :) ,so we'll try your famous cake !!!Good work for da house :)
ReplyDeleteI will be patiently waiting, hope is soon enough :-)
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