Painting Things (with sub-things by my mom)

[mrissa]

1. Do not use popcorn-texturing on your ceilings if you have any choice at all. Really, seriously: don't. It crumbles at the slightest jolt, and there is absolutely no way to get a clean line along the edge.

1a. Mom wants it known (be it hereby known!) that the two glurps of blue paint on the stupid, stupid popcorn ceiling near the door to the library were mine and not hers. So now you know -- and will know to look for them, if you are ever in my library. Or even just inside the front door -- you can see them from there. (Except that we will try to fix them later.)

2. Oh, is this blue. Boy howdy, is it ever blue. You will not ever be able to mistake it for not-blue. Because it's blue. Since blue is what we want, this is a good, good thing. (It is a good blue.)

2a. Mom points out that I have liked this blue for a long, long time: it was the color they painted my toybox and rocking chair when I was barely walking. My goodness. So it is. I didn't notice, but now that she points it out, it really is. She thinks the other shade might have been slightly greener, but I think probably not. Well. Imprinting.

3. Mom is doing the edges and I am doing the rolling.

3a. Except that Mom is doing the rolling right now and I am posting to livejournal and writing a bit of the book because I am maybe the teensiest bit dizzy and she is maybe the teensiest bit a mom.

Well. Maybe more than the teensiest on that last part.

Comments

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

They do sell popcorn-ceiling repair kits, if you do too much damage to it. Although, if you're feeling like a day of work, you could just remove it -- you spray it with some sort of evil disintegrate-y substance and then just scrape it off. It's messy and your arms hurt afterwards, but it's worth it! I hate popcorn ceilings.

Can you tell I'm in house-nerd mode? (Not that that's really any different from any other day.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We have used such kits before here in the office and will probably use one this time. This month, I really don't have a day to devote to ridding myself of the scourge in one room -- particularly as it's a room we've already painted almost completely!

The thing that amuses me about all this is that my gmail notification of lj comments produces the google-ad, "Ugly Popcorn Ceilings? Replace them quickly and easily!" Apparently nobody likes these things.

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

It's so true. Popcorn ceilings are totally of hades.

Think of it this way -- at least you have ceilings. I just have... uh.. joists.

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

Also, I just had this bizarre mental image of popcorn ceilings as 'the scourge' -- like, creepy alien invaders posing as popcorn ceilings.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

At least you have joists! When I was your age, we just had poles and cloth and wolf spiders we weren't allowed to kill!

Okay, so that was only at Girl Scout camp, and I was a lot younger than you are. But I couldn't resist.

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

And it snowed! Uphill! Both ways!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And we had no internet -- we just had to shout ones and zeros into the phone! Which was a Dixie cup on a string!

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

And oy! The static on that string!