Painting Keira’s Room (Day 169)

It took us a while to decide on the color to go with the pink we picked out for Keira’s room. Which was this color.
In case you can’t see it – it is Hint Of Cherry by Valspar. After several days of looking at two different colors of grey (yes – I got my grey) we decided to go with Warm Grey. Now – for the life of me I can’t figure out which company makes that color but it is something kind of similar to this only darker.
This is Gravity from Valspar – the grey we picked out is a little more brown than this color. Some points in the day it looks very light brown and then some points looks very grey. So instead of just white and black making grey it’s more like white and brown very diluted. Think a slightly toasted marshmallow. This might not help any but –
This is the Hint Of Cherry paint swatch/chip (what ever you want to call it) and the Warm Grey together on Keira’s changing table. I put that together with Seth on Saturday – it was pretty easy but definitely a two person job. You will notice in this picture that the Warm Grey is on a brown toned card. It for sure reads darker in this picture.

It’s grey enough that I like it and brown(ish) enough to where Jeremy likes it. Sunday after church we went to Lowe’s since they are the only people around here I have found to carry Olympic One No VOC paint. We had them color match one gallon of each for us. We had to get a few more supplies like liners, another trim cup and an extra roller. It ended up being about $60 for everything.

Since the next day was a holiday we decided to just go home and chill out the rest of the day. We told a few friends that if it wasn’t bad Monday and if they felt like it – they could come and help paint and we would feed them. Sadly – it started to pour down Sunday night and didn’t stop until Tuesday sometime. We seriously needed the rain – but not that much. No one came to help and with the rain it just made us want to be lazy.

I cooked twice that day – breakfast and dinner – don’t ask me what I can’t remember. At some point we decided that we should attempt to paint. Jeremy and I broke out the plastic for the carpet and moved the changing table and the still in the box crib to the middle of the floor. He began to frog tape around the doors while I pulled up the blinds to clean the window sill – it was dusty – then he could tape around it. Yeah – the blinds broke at the top – falling and hitting me square on the bridge of my nose.

I immediately started crying. It hurt – BAD. Jeremy came over and checked it out – he said it looked red but there was no blood and not three minutes later I had this huge bump on my nose. The next day I discovered that I had in fact cut it as evident by the scab that had formed. It’s Thursday and it still hurts to touch it.

So after all that – we started to paint at around five in the afternoon. Trying to do trim work with two light bulbs in the fan and at night isn’t easy. I am going to have to go back over one trim piece on one wall – it looks awful. We both trimmed for a bit and then when Jeremy was done (he does the ceiling trim, I do the floor trim and the doors & windows) he started to roll the walls.

We were done in about three hours. It was too dark to take a picture of the room and it’s been cloudy ever since it stopped raining. We left the pink walls for another day and bid the room goodnight. I will have finished pictures at some point but don’t bet on when.

xo – S.J.

Lowes Trip (Day 159)

Friday was kind of an exhausting day. I worked then after work I went to pick up Seth and headed to Lowe’s.

They are the only ones around here who sold Olympic No VOC Paint it didn’t hurt that it was about $23 a gallon compared to the Sherwin Williams No VOC for about $35 a gallon. I’ll go with the cheaper option any day. After a detour to the remote back corner of the store we went to find sand paper and spray paint. Since this was the first time I’d ever be spray painting furniture I had to ask questions. We settled on Valspar Gloss Black and Rustoleum in Nickel. I then asked where the sand paper was and off I went.

Unfortunately, this is the first time I would ever be using a power sander. I knew what size I needed and what kind but I just couldn’t find it. The guy helping me couldn’t either. But after five or ten minutes and two guys arguing over which one was better I was left with two packs of 5″ round 80 grit velcro backed sand paper. Next – the paint department. I didn’t have trouble in this area as I knew what I wanted. We got a gallon of Olympic No VOC semi-gloss (they were out of satin) color matched to Better Homes and Garden’s Bluebird’s Egg (BHG112). I also picked up this.
Frog Tape. SO much better than regular painter’s tape. It’s amazing stuff. We only used it around the window’s and doors because we didn’t want to waste too much of it around the base boards. We had a few mishaps but we fixed everything and it looks awesome. So – after the trip to Lowe’s I left with this.
Plus Frog Tape and my gallon of paint. In all it was about $50 give or take. Not bad. That little short-handled brush really does an awesome job on edging. I would recommend getting one if you don’t already have one. I almost forgot. I had to go and pick up my invitations for the baby shower at my friends house. Her driveway is super crazy and I’ve only been to her house twice before. She always has to back the car out for me – I’m to scared to. I’m afraid I will run off the drive way and into the road.

Sadly – once I looked at them again in the car – the first time I couldn’t get over the cuteness of them – I realized that the date was wrong. 😦 I had to call the girl that did them and let her know because my friend was going out of the country the next day for 6 weeks. She’s going to charge me $20 to reprint them. Not bad I guess but it kind of sucks.

Finally – once home I moved the boxes with Keira’s furniture from the back room into the hall way and moved the night stand into the garage. The futon was moved into the center of the room with a few things on it and I was done for the night.

The next morning Seth started clearing out his furniture. Casey and Jakki (the best friends in the world) came over to help us tackle everything in one day. We started in the room of course and we only had one roller and tons of brushes. Everyone started to edge everything and then Casey took over the roller. We were in there for almost three hours I think. I loved how the paint had NO SMELL, NO FUMES – no nothing. Awesome. We were left with this finished amazingness.
Granted it came out a little lighter than the paint swatch but I’m glad. Seth loves it. Oh – and futon was covered the whole time and we only had one carpet mishap. We didn’t have huge tarps or anything to go on the floor – just 3×3 sheets of plastic. We each had one. It was around three when we finished the room and no one had eaten lunch. Jakki and I went and got pizza while the guys loaded up the furniture from Seth’s room.

Next post – spray painting furniture. Who knew it could be so fun?

xo – S.J.