I spent some time at Meri's house yesterday. With the daycare closed for 3 weeks, she was anxious to get her updating done. She started in the kitchen.
She, Shub, Lindsay and myself took as much of the wallpaper off the lower walls as possible.
There were 3 layers deep and the bottom layer must have been put on with Elmer's glue or painted on in the unique pattern that it was... from the early 1900s...
We ended up sanding it down a bit,
then put two coats of the yellow paint on it.
The first coat looked pretty ghastly, but the second one looked brilliant!
Meri has learned a lot out of this process AND the importance of why you should really be careful about the nail holes you put in a wall! Plastering, sanding, taping, painting, criticisms, etc.
If she wrote this up for a 4H project right now, she'd go to State for sure!
Oh - don't worry about the kitchen carpeting! This carpet will be torn out and replaced with the linoleum tiles. It was pretty roached to begin with. WHY carpet in a kitchen or bathroom???
This was my little corner of the kitchen. SO many nooks and crannies!!!! Yuck.
While we were waiting for the paint to dry, we stripped down the living room and took away the gorgeous drapes. The public can look right in now! But she's getting it ready for the next wave of painting. It'll be a different color. Ashen or something like that.
She'll be more cautious with the carpet in the living room. We've got plastic tarps to use in there.
And back at home...
Is it school yet?
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I spilled half of a gallon of paint on carpet. It comes right off but it almost gave me a heart attack. I sopped and mopped and soaked it up. Then, I used soapy water to get the rest out. It was labor intensive getting it up.
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