Smile Soup

Sorry about the delay – we’ve had some fairly serious technical issues here (a lazy computer that likes to turn itself off without being asked to and related troubleshooting)… anyway, on with the show!

Last post I shared some ‘before’ shots of our bedroom… today is about the hands-dirty makeover process

Ikea tetris

Step 1 was a shopping trip to pick up new furniture, paint, curtains and various paraphernalia we needed.  I did this on my own which turned out to be for the best – there was barely room left in the drivers seat, let alone anywhere else in the car!

Then we did all the boring prep stuff – remove doors, rails, blinds and other hardware, wash the walls with sugar soap, sand the enamel edges back and tape up the room – this part took ages and was really time consuming and not fun at all.  Well, except the taping – I kind of got into that a bit.

prepped and ready to go

Then, the fun part – painting!  Getting our colour all the walls was really quick, not too messy and a great deal of fun.

bye bye yellow!

The colour we chose for the walls is called ‘Sing Sing’ and I love it.  It’s turned out a little blue-er than I’d expected – I was after a blue-grey colour – but I’m still thrilled with the result!

ready to trim

Getting the trims done was more time consuming than the walls – especially the two doors in the room – 4 coats each!

getting the finishing touches sorted

So, that’s the prep journey – next up will be the finished room!

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