Saturday, October 15, 2005

painting a plain room sexy

We finally moved our furniture back into our bedroom today. Two weeks ago, we started to paint it red-a real sexy red. We thought everything was going well; we followed directions precisely and took our time. Ha! After finishing a coat of primer and two coats of paint, we pulled the tape only to find out that the tape didn't want to come off as it was supposed to. Ideally, you pull the tape and it leaves a nice clean line. Instead, when we pulled the tape, it pulled tape off the wall too, creating big, torn bubbles all over the room. It was far from sexy; it was a disaster. This didn't really encourage us, so we continued to sleep in the living room for a few weeks. I had grown used to it, and I figured we had 30 years to finish painting, so I was in no rush. Finally Matt stepped up and started to cut in again, but this time without tape. He used a tiny paintbrush that I pulled out of my watercolor set. It took him days to complete the 3 coats of touchups, but he did it. It's still not the best. There are a few blobs of red paint on our white ceiling, and the tape pulled off some ceiling paint too, revealing a layer of bright white in random patches. We're hoping that our new furniture will cover up the bad spots.

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