eastowners

Current Mood: Happy

What a weekend it has been at the Eastowner house!  Believe it or not, I’m finally making more progress on the Wish Lish I started almost 7 months ago.  We had made some progress right away with it, as I’m sure you read here, and here.  Then with what seemed like an easy project with my number 1; it went all too wrong all too quickly.  We found a leak by the chimney on the outside wall - got that fixed, we found ants in the wall under the drywall - got an exterminator, and then I had to wait for the wall to be repaired - which finally happened last week.  Finally it seemed like I might get something done around here, and with some help I did.  If you don’t know my darling hubby, it’s a rare day that he does manual labor being in the computer business.  I love you darling, but you sure did sigh a lot this weekend.  :)

On Friday I went to Lowe’s to get stuff to prime the walls, and prepare the room.  I had the intention to start early on Saturday priming the room, and then go get the colored paint and some more supplies while it dried - however we ended up having a margaritta night on Friday delaying our start on Saturday.  So, instead we started out our day by going out for some lunch at Ming Ten (our way of getting sushi for cheap, and Clare likes the Chinese buffet while the ability to get an ice cream cone after dinner), stopping at Lowe’s to get some supplies.  Saturday afternoon we put down the plastic to cover the floor - lesson learned, I think I am going to buy the heavier, reusable clothes next time.  The plastic floor coverings while cheap, are a pain to keep our nice hard woods covered, and they tear easily (especially with shoes on); therefore we ruined socks in order to keep the plasic from tearing too much.  Although the paint trays kept getting caught in them and tearing holes anyway.

Sunday morning we started with the ceiling.  Can I just tell you - whoever came up with the idea to texture ceilings needs to be shot!  We think the ceiling was textured because they had to replace part of the plaste at one point, and decided to texture it to cover up that fact.  Clare picked a lovely shade of pink.  When we first started putting it on, I was like “OH MY - It looks like a piggy bank color.  Man is this bright!”  It did tone down a bit as it dried.  However the only problem is that with textured ceilings and pink paint it took us a bit to be sure we had all of the teenie white spots covered up.  After staring up at the celing for like half an hour looking for spots I starting seeing spots! 

After some lunch we started on the purple walls.  Clare helped of course, and had some fun while doing it.  You can of course seem more pictues of our job in the gallery under Latest - Uncategorized.  The purple took 2 coats, especially in the cut in  areas where we left the yellow.  We are going to give the purple a day or so to set before I start taping off to do the white trim around the top of the room, the floor boards, and of course the windows and doorways.  It was quite a job, more than I thought, and it took us most of Sunday to get it done.  It was a productive way to spend our weekend, and I can’t wait for the end of the week when I can get Clare all moved in.  Our living room has become a bit of a toy pit, so it’ll be nice to have it all in one space.