Hooray for our bathroom!

No, honestly.

We have been wanting to un-yellow it for quite forever now. I would show pictures, but none quite made the horrible justice. It was a bad color to begin with, and a matte one that soaked up water and let go of pigment and looked terrible with just about everything. Said and done, Saturday morning we went to Daly’s for paint and that other, less pricy, place for buckets and trays and whatnot. Fortunately we had quite a bit of supplies left since last time - the price was upped a bit by having to buy whole extra quarts of the colours we have in the living room (and C2 isn’t cheap shit) for some very minor touch-ups, since that was the smallest size it came in. Oh well. Once the walls were scrubbed down and the industrial-strength fan Lucas had brought home from work was in place it was time for a very appreciated delivery pizza, and then the painting ensued.

I did the majority of the painting, with Lucas helping with running to get me thing and with the tallest parts. What surprises me is that it took three full coats to cover the yellow - white is normally the most opaque of pigments. I suppose it could have to do with the quality of the paint - the that I am comparing to C2 is one of the absolute better brands. In any case, our bathroom is now white and lovely, the floor is very dotted, but I want to do something about that anyway, and there’s enough paint to do the window sills in the living room if I really feel like it. Additionally, the touch-ups went smooth, which means that the dent in the hallway wall caused by me being upset at something (honestly, American walls! You’d think that in a wall vs. glass fight, the wall would win) is gone gone gone, and the lines around the accent wall are much smoother. Hooray for painting.

In conclusion, I’d like to give the following advice for to-be-homepainters:

  :: See if you can somehow get hold of a really strong fan- borrow, rent etc. It helps enormously with drying time and smell.
  :: Don’t be stingy with the tape - the blue stuff is really good, pay extra for it. Using the cheapo tape is not worth any money.
  :: Spackle will apparently kill you, so gloves, face mask, wet sandpapering. And do that extra round of spackle-and-sandpaper. It pays off (the kind with color-indication is good, too.)
  ::More layers. Don’t stop until it’s good enough.