I crossed a serious hurdle with the house fitness center progress final night time. As of final night time, the entire trim is painted, the entire stripes on the partitions have been touched up, and the outlet plates have been put in and painted. This was starting to really feel just like the by no means ending portray venture, so I’m very relieved and excited to lastly have this performed!
After I began engaged on this room once more, after ending the lavatory rework,
About half of the trim across the ceiling had been put in, so I nonetheless wanted to put in the remainder, wooden fill, sand, caulk and paint. The entire door and window trim had been put in, and wooden stuffed, nevertheless it nonetheless wanted to be sanded, caulked, and painted. After which the partitions wanted a ton of touchups.
Right here’s a little bit of irony. I initially wished to put in crown molding on this room, however after putting in one piece, I noticed that I didn’t like the way it regarded on this room. However once I painted the stripes on the partitions, I did so with the mindset that they’d be capped off with crown molding on the prime, so I didn’t trouble with portray the stripes completely alongside the ceiling.
So with a purpose to keep away from having to touchup each single stripe within the room alongside the ceiling, I made a decision to put in this small trim across the ceiling…
Properly, my plan backfired. After I tried to color that small trim white to match the ceiling, I couldn’t get the paint line good sufficient for my liking the place it met the wall. I didn’t need to use painters tape on the partitions as a result of, as I discovered once I initially did the partitions, that may turn out to be a nightmare with the tape peeling off components of the stripes, together with the tiny white stripes between the colours.
So I ended up not even making an attempt to be good about portray the trim white, after which I had to return and touchup the highest of each single stripe within the room. So all I ended up doing with that little trim was including work that I didn’t must do. 😀
Oh properly. We reside and be taught, proper? At the very least it’s all completed now, and I can transfer on to different issues.
Being on this room is like dwelling inside a pack of Fruit Stripe gum, and I completely adore it! 😀
The massive teal stripe is the place I’m going to construct a Swedish ladder (aka, stall bars).
And please notice how meticulously I integrated the outlet covers into the wall design. 😀
After I need to paint outlet covers, I all the time buy the kind that covers the entire outlet and is labeled “paintable”. They’ve a texture to them that enables the paint to adheres very simply, and the paint doesn’t scratch off of them like it’ll in case you paint the shiny plastic sort. I’ve had one among these on the outlet on the tip of the peninsula in my kitchen. It’s been painted since 2017, and that outlet is used often, and it nonetheless seems to be nice. Right here’s a better view of one of many retailers.
I may critically stand on this room and stare in any respect of this wonderful shade all day lengthy. I used to be telling somebody simply yesterday that I had assumed that as I acquired older, my love of shade would possibly begin to wane a bit, and I’d simply naturally begin to gravitate in direction of calmer, extra impartial interiors. However I really feel just like the very reverse is going on.
As I’ve gotten older, my love of shade has solely grown extra intense, and I discover myself frequently in search of methods so as to add an increasing number of shade to my house. I’m very blessed to have a husband who doesn’t thoughts my love of shade.
The one rule he all the time gave me was “no pink partitions”, however even that has turn out to be extra of a working joke than an precise rule. I do know for a undeniable fact that if I actually wished to color a room pink, he’d haven’t any downside with it so long as it’s not sizzling pink. That’s his line within the sand. 😀
At the same time as lately as final night time, I used to be nonetheless planning on portray the 2 doorways on this room black. However now that I see the completed partitions and trim within the daytime, I’m leaning in direction of white. I really feel like black could be too jarring for these partitions. I’ll be utilizing loads of black in the remainder of the room (beginning with your complete ground), however I now suppose the doorways ought to be white.
Now that the partitions are performed, I feel that issues are going to start out coming collectively rapidly on this room.
I nonetheless have just a few paint touchups to do on the ceiling, however that ought to be very fast. I’ve the entire foam fitness center flooring that I’m going to make use of, so it could go down as quickly as I get the room cleared out (once more) and clear the ground. The window shades had been delivered on Saturday, and I’ve had the curtains, curtain rods, and curtain rings for a very long time now. Each of the lights that I need to check out for the “entryway” of this room have arrived, so I must unbox the second and determine for certain which one I need to use. And the dresser that I purchased for the closet space has been delivered.
Barring any unexpected circumstances, I really feel fairly assured that this room will probably be performed by the tip of this month! I will probably be ecstatic to lastly have this room performed!!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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