My Fall Vacation

My school is now on the continuous learning calender, so the for the past three weeks I have been on our Fall vacation. My goal was to paint Nick's room and the "penthouse" bedroom. As you know, in an old house it is not as simple as just painting walls. Painting leads to looking at the woodwork, the windows and look at that carpet!

I started with Nick's room which we painted the lovely shade of red when we moved in. Then we had the wall patched and never did painted over the white patch. The carpet was in terrible shape....but yes, we let Nick live in it. It never seemed so bad while there were posters on the wall and clothes all over the floor.

After two coats of primer to cover the red and then two coats of "First Frost" we now have a nice peaceful room. Nick is rarely here and likes the new look. The room still is Nick's with his books, trophies and Lego drawer :) It is now so much more guest friendly. Andy and Kelly won't have to worry about what Michael may be scrounging out of the carpet any longer!

Every thing has a fresh new coat of paint including those paned windows which my husband graciously scraped for me after I had finished painting.

The "penthouse" bedroom, aka....Nicole and trolls abode has also received a makeover. We moved Nicole in before we were able to paint the room. As you can see it was the former bedroom of a free spirited artistic teen. By the way, Never let your kids use sticky tack to hang things on the wall. In this case it was on the ceiling.....thousands of little pieces of sticky tack. After you scrape it off with a scraper or in this case my fingernail worked best you get to mess with your nervous system by inhaling tons of Goo gone to get rid of the residue.

Again, after many coats of primer and a lovely new shade of pick....the carpet is fuchsia ..what choice did I have besides boring beige, it has become another comfy guest room.

I am thrilled with the results. I am looking forward to going back to work so I can get a little rest!