I live in a small apartment with 4 rooms and lots of angles. So when I decided to take a staycation and paint my apartment, I had to strategize. Painting is not my favorite chore and my diminishing eye site makes close up work a challenge. Rolling walls is relatively painless but trim and cutting in, on vey!
Choosing the colors of your project is always key( thanks to Kay for helping with the process!) .Whoever has the job of naming paint colors must have a lot of fun; my colors are Exhale, Rocky Shelter, Cool Vapor and Chrome. Mostly grays and a gray blue that reminds me of Lake Michigan, I’m bringing the outdoors inside.
Light is the great color equalizer so what looks great in the store doesn’t work in the house. I painted several pieces of poster board and put them up around the apartment to see how they looked at different times during the day. Luckily, it was pretty apparent what colors belonged where.
My apartment is in an old house so the walls are plaster and uneven, flawed. So prepping the area was essential and tedious. Shelves had to be emptied, trim tapped off, trim sanded, walls washed, all before a single paint can is cracked open. Then pain the trim, let it dry and paint it again. Then the ceilings, cut in the walls, roll the walls and watch the paint dry.
The process of painting quite naturally follows the process of everyday life. Choose carefully, always be prepared, allow for extenuating circumstances, be patient and steady. A job well done is its own reward. I think I am going to be well rewarded after this painting project and will be happy to wait another 10 years before I pick up a paintbrush again.
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