Sanding, priming, painting
When we last left our intrepid renovators, the girls' room looked like this:
While it was nice to be rid of the plaster cracks, No self-respecting young princess would tolerate living in such squalor for long. Clearly, we needed to do some more work. The first order of business was to sand down all of the spackle work, which created a lovely quarter inch of white dust all over everything, including me:
The vacuum and mop made quick work of the dust:
This is the kind of shine we're hoping to achieve permanently after refinishing the floor... not just after the room has been mopped:
Next, we needed to swap out the existing light fixture for something temporary while we work on the ceiling:
We also needed to cover up the floor so that we don't make extra work for ourselves on the refinishing step later... we're going to be doing a lot of painting:
It was time to start priming. Since we're making big color changes all around, and since we had done so much spackling, we went ahead and primed every surface:
After a solid coat of primer, we got ready to paint the ceiling. Now, this is not going to be any ordinary ceiling. Our girls deserve the best! As part of their Asian theme, we agreed to make the ceiling metallic gold. Yes, metallic gold.
That meant the job had a few complications. For one thing, we decided we would need to bring the ceiling paint down onto the walls a few inches, so we could do a border around the room and avoid having a difficult line to maintain between the walls and the ceiling. So you'll see in these pictures that we laid out a line about 5" (13cm) down from the wall/ceiling boundary.
We also needed to mask all of the walls, in addition to the floor, because we don't want the wall surfaces to be dotted with flecks of metallic gold from the ceiling paint cycle.
First round of the gold ceiling looked pretty cool:
After the second round, you could start to see how it was going to look when finished:
Maria came in at this point for an inspection:
Her room now has bling. She approves.
We probably have to do one more coat on the ceiling, and then it's on to the walls.
Tomorrow: Cabin fever and bowling.
While it was nice to be rid of the plaster cracks, No self-respecting young princess would tolerate living in such squalor for long. Clearly, we needed to do some more work. The first order of business was to sand down all of the spackle work, which created a lovely quarter inch of white dust all over everything, including me:
The vacuum and mop made quick work of the dust:
This is the kind of shine we're hoping to achieve permanently after refinishing the floor... not just after the room has been mopped:
Next, we needed to swap out the existing light fixture for something temporary while we work on the ceiling:
We also needed to cover up the floor so that we don't make extra work for ourselves on the refinishing step later... we're going to be doing a lot of painting:
It was time to start priming. Since we're making big color changes all around, and since we had done so much spackling, we went ahead and primed every surface:
After a solid coat of primer, we got ready to paint the ceiling. Now, this is not going to be any ordinary ceiling. Our girls deserve the best! As part of their Asian theme, we agreed to make the ceiling metallic gold. Yes, metallic gold.
That meant the job had a few complications. For one thing, we decided we would need to bring the ceiling paint down onto the walls a few inches, so we could do a border around the room and avoid having a difficult line to maintain between the walls and the ceiling. So you'll see in these pictures that we laid out a line about 5" (13cm) down from the wall/ceiling boundary.
We also needed to mask all of the walls, in addition to the floor, because we don't want the wall surfaces to be dotted with flecks of metallic gold from the ceiling paint cycle.
First round of the gold ceiling looked pretty cool:
After the second round, you could start to see how it was going to look when finished:
Maria came in at this point for an inspection:
Her room now has bling. She approves.
We probably have to do one more coat on the ceiling, and then it's on to the walls.
Tomorrow: Cabin fever and bowling.
