Run With The Fishes

Zoey and Nathan were at my dad’s house for the past week. This gave us time to redecorate the kitchen and Zoey’s room (for her birthday).

The kitchen was a dingy white and had a funky wallpaper on one wall that was starting to peel. We also needed to repair and paint the ceiling from the leaky roof that was replaced last month. We started by sanding down the walls to get the painful spikey texture smoothed out. After we washed the pounds of dust away, we patched all of the holes and primed the walls. The ceiling has a popcorn texture that had fallen off around the leaks. We thought it would be easier to patch than make a huge mess pulling down the rest of the ceiling. We bought an aerosol can that sprays the texture up to the ceiling. Greg taped of the area around the spot that needed patched and hung some papers from the ceiling around it to catch the spray. The directions say to shoot it from the inside of a box. We found out why when Greg started spraying the texture all over the kitchen. It was pretty comical and thankfully easy to clean up.

I decided that all of the walls would be painted a buttery yellow that matched both our table and cabinetry and wanted to have one wall that was different for accent. I picked out a tomato red that looked really good next to the yellow color. After 4 coats of primer and 4 more coats of red, the wall looked pretty good. The only problem was that when you looked at the whole kitchen it looked like someone had squirted mustard all over 3 walls and ketchup on the 4th.

All in all, not too shabby. The plan is, with Jennifer’s help, to paint a mural on the red wall. That should help tone it down some.