Korbyn's Room

Last weekend Colton had a bass tournament where he left the house around 5 a.m. and wasn't going to be home until about 5 p.m., so needless to say I had nothing to do...except get her room ready, which I was told NOT to do by my husband. But it was too tempting, we had the paint sitting there for like a month already and I couldn't stand it anymore. So I started working on it around 10 and it did not get finished until the next day! And yes, I moved some of the stuff around but I was careful how I moved it and everything is ok.

 

 

These are some before shots of the room.  All the white spots are holes that I had to fill in, and I still mised about half of them.  And if you're wondering...yes, the blue paint was a nightmare to cover up.  It actually took two coats of primer and two coats of paint!
 

So I put this first coat of yellow on and was so disappointed!  It was not the color I wanted at all, it was way too yellow.  I called Colton as soon as I put it on and told him I hated it and that it looked like the inside of a mexican restaurant! Well he just happened to be getting in his truck to head home and he said he would stop at Walmart to pick up a different color, thank goodness!  When he walked in the house he banned me from entering the room again because of the smell, everytime he would hear me come down the hall he would yell "don't even think about it!"  So he finished putting on the lemon yellow coat and then put the new one on the next day.  He looks really mad in this picture but it's because I snuck up on him and took it right as he turned around, he busted out laughing telling me to get out of there as soon as I took it.
 

This color is much more what I had in mind!  We installed some cheap vinyl roller shades to help block out some of the heat and the light...they work wonderful!  We're still planning on putting curtains over them, but you can see in the top picture how the sun is almost burning through the window!  When I was painting I would start to sweat as soon as I stood in front of that window (it faces the west and gets that ridiculous afternoon heat).  That room used to get unbearably hot because there are old, single pane windows that don't have a good seal so we used to always just keep that door closed in the house because it would literally feel about 10 degrees hotter in there.  But now with these shades it makes a world of a difference!  There's still a lot of work to do in there but at least that's one more thing I can cross off our list!