Prime, Paint, Clean, Mud

Two more coats of primer are now on the walls of the back bedroom.  The pink and green can still be seen as the colors bleed through.  Now I am not sure if it is really bleeding through or the bright colors have burned into my eyes.

The sound of a train woke me up the other night. I am so not used to hearing trains.  The bed got moved to the downstairs to a clean portion of the living room.  This way there is only one room in the house that is a disaster area.  Now it is a big room full of tools, supplies, stuff, things, and me.  The rest of the house is free and clear for rehab.

After all that primer I started putting the real paint in the bedroom.  My husband and I talked at great length about the color.  We didn’t want to go stark white.  Plain old white is boring and blinding all at the same time.  So found a nice neutral cream to off white color called Dove White.  Then ran to the home store and picked up a couple of 5 gallon buckets.  Decided to spend a little extra on a paint and primer in one since I can still slightly see the pink and green through the primer. 

Put some more mud on the upstairs bathroom.  It’s going to take a couple of more coats of mud to be smooth again.  So now there are two rooms drying, it’s time to start to prep the dark blue bedroom.  The color in here is almost black and the kids did some silver paint graffiti on the walls with lots and lots of stickers.  So, back to the TSP.  Scrapped off all of the stickers,cleaned the walls, and finished masking the room for that first coat of primer.

About halfway through the clean-up of the front, dark blue bedroom realtor called.  He said that he was going to be in town tomorrow and had set up a meeting with the handyman.  We set a time when we could all meet and then it was back to work.