I've spent most of this weekend trying to fix and paint one wall in my house, when I haven't been trying to get my son's homework situation under control. This house has one of the worst drywall jobs I've ever seen in my life. Loose tapes painted into place, tape lines, wrinkled tape, lots of superficial cracking, and not enough compound used in general. I've spent a lot of time this weekend discovering little flubs and f***-ups and dutifully repairing them the best I can before painting.
I'm only going to paint this one wall in the front room the same color as the room beyond. Typically this would be the living room and formal dining room, but I use them as my studio. I'll be putting a fresh coat of gallery white on the rest of the room. Please excuse the mess in the room beyond; for some reason the kittens love knocking over all the packing materials in that room on a daily basis.
My initial plan was to hang everything back up when I got done, but it looks so crisp and fresh the way it is that I might just pack up everything I took down rather than put fresh nail holes in it.
I'm hoping to get done with this one wall today so I can resume working on Halloween art tomorrow. For now I've had to take a break because it's just so uncomfortable in here. I took the barometer off the wall, which I forgot we even had, and realized it said it was 81% humidity inside the house. Yuck.
I was really debating stenciling this wall since my husband said the blue would make it look dark in here, but I actually don't think it does, and I don't think I will stencil it after all. This color (In The Moment T18-15 by Behr) is such a nice color all by itself. If I was going to stay here I probably would, but for now I think I will just save this stencil for my next project house. This house is our third project house and hopefully four will be our last one - we've decided to build it ourselves so we're not endlessly repairing bad work.
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