The hubs dropped me off at the house early this morning on his way to a half day at work. I got some lovely shots of the sunrise through the front bedroom window (to compliment the sunset photos I took the other night). I put them together into collages to save on space, but the effect is the same. Sigh ...
Better than that, today I got to crack open the 5-gallon bucket of primer I bought at the Home Depot a couple of weeks ago. I chose Zinzer oil-based primer. Zinzer is a trusted name that kills mold and other icky stuff, and the oil-based version of their primer will work under (and over) both oil-based and latex paints. So we don't have to worry about what the previous owners used.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Before I cracked open the primer, I did a little spot cleaning in the laundry room, mostly because I'm tired of seeing how icky it is every time I walk through. This is what it looked like before:
It took a bit of scrubbing. I honestly do not know how it got as icky as it did. Still, nothing a bit of cleaner and muscle won't cure.
And THEN the bathroom upstairs ... This is before-ish. The hubs already cleaned the walls and surfaces and remudded the drywall seams.
I had him remove the existing toilet, so it would be easier to tape and paint.
He stuffed a couple of old rags into the hole to help keep any gasses from coming up the pipe and into the bathroom.
Next, I taped around everything that wasn't getting painted.
While I was taping and priming, hubs was working on drywall seams in the back bedroom and the landing. He drew a heart in the drywall dust on his shirt for Valentine's Day. (=
And then he helped me by priming all the places I couldn't reach.
Look at how pretty it is just not being shockingly yellow!
Well, except for that one spot that I had the hubs go back and get.
Did you all know that oil-based primers and paints don't wash off with warm soapy water like latex primers and paints do?
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