Painting and painting

[kodalai]

So I am painting the room in my new house before I move in, because 1) the room belonged to the previous owner's daughter and they decided to paint two of the walls bright purple and the other two bright blue, and 2) the walls have been beat to shit and are full of dents, gouges, pockmarks, and places where they spackled over dents and gouges but then didn't sand them before painting.

Fortunately cryogenia knows about such things, so under her direction I bought plastic sheeting, paintbrushes, thirty yards of blue tape, a gallon of primer, a pint of spackling, putty knives, and sander blocks. We spent all of yesterday putting down plastic and washing the walls, and all of today sanding, spackling, sanding again, washing again, and finally putting on the first coat of primer. Tomorrow: moar primer, then monday and tuesday I can finally put on new paint.

Quick poll: The color I pick has to be pastel side of the spectrum, which is fine by me. Right now I'm looking at the blue-green range. I like blue better, but I hear cool colors can get depressing during the winter, and green would have a nice meadow-like feel to it. Opinions?
[Poll #1438465]

Anyway, once the walls are finished, THEN I can start looking at moving my actual STUFF into the room. Mostly into the room. It won't all fit in the room; some of it will obviously have to go in the rest of the house.

Things I still need to do:
-Fill out change-of-address forms
-Fix move-out date with current landlady (Current est: August 16th)
-Inform the following parties of address change: Workplace, State Farm, AT&T, Wells Fargo, US and WA gov't.
-Cancel account with Comcast.
-Contact Starving Students Movers to see their rates to move one bed, one mattress, and two desks.
-Visit the container store to get an other half a bookshelf.
-Buy, at Home Depot/Lowe's, more paint trays, and actual paint.

Comments

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

We painted our bedroom a medium-light blue green. It's a Sherwin Williams paint called "Rain." Despite the name, it's not cold or depressing and we've paired it with a chocolate color in the bedding. One tip--paint nearly always looks lighter on the wall than it does on the test chips.

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

Jay and I painted our bedroom a light blue green, and I love it. We also used the same color for our bathroom. It's a very soothing color.

I have at least one GW friend who would probably love to paint her room blue and purple. ^_^

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

You probably already know and were referring to doing this, but *just* in case you were referring to paper forms, you can do the change-of-address online: http://www.usps.com/moversguide/

Yay!

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

for some reason lj doesn't think i'm able to view the poll. not sure why. i vote for blue-green tho.
have fun, and open some windows ;-)

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

Shades of Brooktondale! In the first house we lived in (shared with friends), the upstairs had been gutted to the studs, and the bedrooms needed wallboard first, before we could even get to the spackling and painting. We also stripped & refinished the floors. (That was outside of Ithaca, while I was still a student at Cornell.)

I vote with the majority, for blue-green.