OPAM: May '08

Inspired by Tara!

I need to get my backside into gear about updating the paint work in our house! To say it is embarrassing would be an understatement! We bought our house 8 years ago. I was 23. I loved bright colours & yep I went crazy! *blush* 4 years on I hated it & slowly I have done a few rooms... ok well just the kids room (typical how they always get priority!!) & we did the lounge probably 2 years ago now (where does time go!).

SO! When Tara mentioned this OPAM project, I thought gee, I really should get on board with that & pull my finger out! I have been moaning about it for years, but no more so than to my friend Amanda lately as she has been SO good at re-painting lots of her house lately. Well finally, yesterday afternoon after days of mental preparation in my head I said to Ren "I'm going to start painting the bedroom"! Poor man! It was a bit out of left field for him!!!!

So, we started yesterday at 4.30pm, moved ALL the furniture out. The downside of having an old, small house, everything seems to end up being stored in our bedroom! Like the beanbag I use for my newborn photo's.... it's huge & it takes up so much room, but I just have no where else to put it *sigh* Anyway, so we get all that done, get the kids fed & I just start to get to work on the ceiling & then there is a major accident down the highway & Ren gets called out to help :o( (He didn't get home until midnight & it just sounded horrific :o( might have to go back in today to continue help cleaning up :o( ) So anyway, I got all the cutting in done & most of the priming for the windows, door & skirting boards.! :D

Ren just needs to roller the ceiling for me this morning. Then I can roller the walls, finish priming the skirting boards & gloss the windows, door & boards & we will be done! :D

I tell you the biggest saving grace is the new one coat wall paint! We've had & used the one coat ceiling paint before, but never the one coat wall paint! :D Wow!! :D :D

Here is the only photo I have on my computer of our bedroom, but it does show the walls *cringe shudder*!

Anyway, in a few hours it will be GONE! G.O.N.E.!! :D

Will take an after photo tomorrow when the gloss has dried & we are all moved back in - hopefully! Let me tell you there are no Sunday sleep-ins when you sleep in the lounge room! Normally we can fob the kids off to the TV & cartoons for a good hour before they pester us to get up.... bit hard when you are sleeping in front of the TV!!!!!! :D
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Comments

[Susan Roberts]

Sounds like a great project. We have just repainted all the walls in our new place, took about 8 weeks...now onto skirting boards and ceilings. Good luck with the rest!

[Carrie Young]

*argh* Susan!
8 weeks of painting! Gosh, not sure I am up for THAT!!!!
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[Mands]

Can't wait to see Carrie! come on already! We are doing the same thing here at the mo! We finished boys bedroom on weekend, now if the wardrobe were painted and I find time to make the new roman blind, and denim duvets, then we will have another room finished! This weekend my "office" ie dining room is being done! I'm so excited!

[Carrie Young]

Just finishing putting the furniture back in tonight Mands! Still don't love it, we just have SO MUCH in the room, need new blinds, want new artwork *sigh* but at least the walls are nicer! It's a step in the right direction!!