House Update
Hello folks! How are you at the moment? We’re slowly but surely getting the house sorted out and now that I have a couple of weeks off work, I thought I might as well make use of the time and get on with decorating the house. My plan for the summer was to paint the walls as well as stripping the wallpaper as it’s starting to bubble, plus it looks a bit ugly! I thought I should just bite the bullet and crack on with it…
It didn’t take us that long to go with a colour scheme for the house: white, grey, and black. Oh, and more white! We wanted to keep it nice and simple and perhaps use some other colours for an accent wall, like a deep rich blue for instance. We’re also total newbies when it comes to decorating so it was pretty much looking stuff up online (thanks Youtube for DIY hacks). I spent half a day washing down the walls to get all the grime off- needless to say, it was rather laborious and I had to take breaks in between the process!
Once the walls were dry we taped the edges of the skirting board, around the ceiling and the edges of the doors so that we’d get a nice clean finish with the paint. What I thought would be less than an hours work ended up taking us both about two hours just to paint one section of the hallway…
Once the first layer went up I painted the second layer on my own the next day, which took about an hour and a half! Today it took me about another hour to take the masking tape off and to retouch some areas that had peeled away. Tip for you all: peel away the masking tape once you’ve finished painting (as in immediately) otherwise you’re going to end up with uneven edges if you leave it the following day. I ended up having the score away some of the masking tape, which was an absolute pain in the arse!
Anyway, this is what the downstairs hallway looks like (courtesy of the cat posing):
I have to say, we’re really happy with the colour as the hallway is always light so the colour really suits the space. I’ve started painting the loft so photos of my (slow) progress will follow.
I’m really enjoying spending a bit of time and making our house our home, I’ve never had to decorate anywhere I’ve lived before so this is a first for me. It’s nice seeing the hard work you’ve put in, albeit wonky paint lines but it’ll do for now!
That’s it for now- have a super nice week and take care!