painting the laundry room
Written on April 29, 2008 by eric
The weird thing about this weekend that Steph didn’t mention in the last post is that when we got to the house Saturday morning, the door was open and someone had installed window blinds without our consent!
We had actually ordered the window blinds, but Steph had called them to postpone the installation since we weren’t done painting yet. But they didn’t listen and came anyway, and the bathroom contractors were there and let them in.
The other thing that had originally been scheduled to be delivered over the weekend and that we had postponed was the washer and dryer. Fortunately they did listen and didn’t come, because we still had lots of painting to do in the laundry room. We did a first coat of it, at least, on Monday night, and now it looks like this:
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steph’s footnotes:
the splotchy patches are where the paint was still wet. they are extra-visible because eric took this photo with the camera flash in an otherwise dark room (the only remaining overhead light is in the bathroom, so any work we’ve been doing after dark requires moving around an old ikea floor lamp with a long extension cord…fortunately, the electrician was thoughtful enough to leave us a hot wired outlet in just about every room that he will cut power to and rewire once the new ones are up and running)
also, this wall represents my first experiment hand edging with paint in a contrasting color. i think it turned out much nicer than the edges we did with tape in the kitchen and dining room, so i think i’m going to try “cleaning up” all the previous edges by hand. *sigh* if only i had had the confidence to do it that way from the start…but at least i wised up and started doing it the old fashioned “right” way in the bathroom (and impressed the bathroom contractor to boot!)
there was a rusty laundry sink in this room before. the sink in the photo is the surprisingly short pedestal sink that was originally in the bathroom. i’m glad we are able to reuse this sink, even if it ends up being only temporary (we’d prefer a smaller sink because it’s going to be a tight fit to get the washer and dryer to fit between the sink and the door…as it is, they’re going to overlap the door frame a little bit)