Painting the Nursery

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I am determined that we are going to get this nursery painted while we are both off work for Christmas. And get the curtains hung.

The problem is, the people who lived here before us had horrible taste. When we bought the house, one of the things we asked for in our offer was that they replace the PINK carpet in that bedroom with new neutral carpet to match the rest of the house, which they had just recarpeted. WTF- did they think they could just skip that room and nobody would notice? Oh yeah, and the blinds were also pink. The wallpaper? Some ugly dalmation stuff around the top, then pastel stripes and stars on the rest of the walls. They did not hang it right either- it is going to be a pain to finish taking down.

This is what we have to work with:

You can clearly see that the dalmations and balloons don’t match the stars and stripes AT ALL. And that it is peeling off in layers. Fun for us.

But today we went to Lowe’s and bought our lavender paint, and considering that we have become painting professionals since buying this house, it shouldn’t be too bad. Jonathon does the roller and I do all the edges with a brush. Over the past year, we have painted our whole upstairs with the exception of one bathroom and this baby’s room. This week we already finished painting the downstairs and redoing all the baseboards down there. And wow, does my back hurt after that! But I love the satisfaction of painting over someone else’s dirt and knowing that no one has touched these walls except us.

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