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Monday, September 08, 2003

Mais je pensais que ce serait facile!

How to make painting a room difficult:

1. Decide to paint in order to cover hideous wallpaper but think that you can take shortcuts.
2. Paint 2-3 coats of white paint directly on top of the offending wallpaper.
3. Decide that white is a boring color and go to Home Depot to pick out colors to sponge-paint over the entire room. Choose midnight blue and silver grey.
4. After sponge-painting over the wallpaper wall, realize that the two colors, which work well next to each other on the samples, don't work at all sponge-painted on the wall.
5. Decide to paint two walls grey and two walls blue instead. Commence.
6. Think that it'd be easier to sand the sponge-painted wall down and paint directly on top of it rather than peel off the wallpaper. Begin sanding.
7. Realize while sanding that the paint never stuck well to the wallpaper to begin with. Peel off wallpaper.
8. Discover another layer of (Disney character) wallpaper underneath the hideous one. Realize that the layer is suctioned incredibly well to the wall.
9. After 3-4 hours of peeling wallpaper with mother's help, look excited at seeing clean drywall.
10. Sand wall.
11. Buy white primer and apply 2 coats to offending wall.
12. Paint multiple coats of blue and grey on walls, still mixing paint with the faux glaze the salesperson at Home Depot recommended.
13. Realize that faux glaze was meant to be used when sponge-painting. That's why after 3 coats the walls still aren't done.
14. Buy more paint and apply it directly to walls without adding faux glaze.
15. After 3 coats, realize blue is a difficult color to paint with.
16. Buy ready-made white trim to cover border mistakes and spot paint over mistakes.
17. Enjoy finished room.
18. Point out mother's mistake in a dinnertime conversation: she'd mixed some of the leftover blue with what she thought was white paint to get a softer color. Unfortunately, it didn't work because she mixed with the remaining faux glaze, not white latex paint. Around 7 coats later....

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