Well, maybe not catastrophe, but frustration at least. I picked out a yellow for the kids room, and we've had it bought for a while. Picked this weekend as the painting weekend! So, I started the painting Friday evening while Wes was still at work, thought I could get all the trim work done, and then he could help me with the rolling part, just be done in no time. Except, big problem-I hate the yellow!! The super soft sweet yellow color that I had picked out looked like highlighter on the wall.
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| The before picture |
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| Highlighter on the wall-yuck! |
So, sat Wes came home, took a look at it, and shook his head. lol. So while we were out shopping, we grabbed a quart of white paint, and just decided we would lighten it ourselves. Result was not to bad, kind of a pretty yellow-BUT if there's one lesson I've learned, it's don't buy cheap paint! And I had. And it did not cover the walls at all-WE RAN OUT OF PAINT. Sigh. So, today its off to the paint store to but some good paint, in a better yellow (I'm really looking for such a soft yellow that you hardly even notice it's yellow) The room is going to be pretty bold with the red, black, and white baseball/ladybug design, so I dont want the walls to loud. And the yellow we came up with on our own, its a much softer yellow, like I was wanting, but is still to bright. So we decided just to call that a good primer coat, which we probably would have had to do anyways to cover up that pink that Kenzie had.
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| The yellow "primer" coat |
Good news for the day:
YES WE DID! Christmas ornaments in July baby!! They are still sitting on my table at home, can't quite put them up yet!
The baby countdown chain seems to be working so far for Kenz. She's talked a lot about how she gets to cut another chain down, and by the time we're done, Christmas and Baby Jordan will be here. She's so cute.
