"Cherish" Room - Day Two!

 Yesterday, I couldn't finish painting because I couldn't reach up to the area where the ceiling meets the highest wall in the room. It must be a 14 ft high ceiling because I was on a 6 foot ladder, I'm 5'8" tall and I just couldn't reach it with a brush to cut it in!   Well, I could if I stood on the very top, but there was nothing to hold on to and I was getting the heebie-jeebies! Luckily, Stacy, the owner, contacted her parents, and I picked up an 8 foot ladder this morning on the way to the store.

This was the problem - this area where the wall meets the ceiling!  Notice the green over spray on the white 'cottage cheese' ceiling! THAT was so much fun to cover - note the sarcasm!

And now here is what it looks like after about three coats of white and the corners painted!

Here is the room now that the entire paint job is dry - quite different than yesterday's green!  Finished off and on while working my shift - I definitely got my exercise going up and down those ladders all morning!

As soon as I got done with my shift I raced home to get some painting done.   I started with these huge letters - 24" tall but light being made of paper mache.  You'll see why I need them in tomorrow's post!  The easiest way to paint these is to do all the inside edges and sides first.  By the time you finish the sides will be dry enough to lay the letters down and then you can paint the tops without the letters sticking to whatever you are painting on!

Next I got started on this little round table since I wanted to bring it in for the room display as soon as I could.  It's short like a coffee table so I turned it on it's side for you to see the chunky pedestal and feet!

The top of this table was well worn!  I bought it at an estate sale and the lady almost didn't sell it to me saying it was part of her family's history. After we got to talking, I learned that this table, along with two square tables with about the same dimensions and height, were 'dancers' tables!! I prefer to think of them as "go-go dancer tables" rather than "strippers"!!

By the end of the day, this table had 'cleaned up' nicely!

At least I'll have a good story to tell to whoever purchases it!

Tomorrow, the letters, this table, and my collection of frames are going up to my new space along with some other surprises! Stay tuned!

"Cherish" Room - Day One!

After four months at Fabulous Finds, I am ready for some more space!  I'm inviting you on my journey of creating my 'Cherish' room, with daily blog posts for a few days documenting my room makeover! First, let's take a quick tour of the room to be transformed!

This bright green room was formerly the 'Kid's Room'.  There was a huge air hockey table in it that just sold, an enormous cubby unit if anyone is looking for a great storage piece for kids and there are still numerous collector's dolls and toys to be sold - at a great price! Come by the store and check them out! Although the green was perfect for kids, it was the first thing that was going to have to go! A little too 'electric' for what I was planning!

This space has one extremely high wall, a couple of angled corners, an open ceiling with a bar running at an angle . . .

and two windows in one wall which look into the main sales area.

I went to the paint stores in search of a good neutral color - not too dark but dark enough to show off all the furniture I paint white!  Looking through mountains of paint chips there was no color that I liked more than the color I used to have on the walls in my space at Melange when I was there, so I decided to go to Restoration Hardware and check out 'Silver Sage' - a kind of gray-blue-green!

 

That's it in the bottom right hand corner!  With paint chip in hand, I went to the nearest Lowe's and had the nice guy at the counter color match the paint swatch - not sure it saved me that much money since I had to buy premium paint in order to cover the lime green!  But at least I got it in eggshell finish - not a choice at Restoration!

The floors are cement, with a kind of gripper texture on them - kind of a nightmare since they 'grip' dirt!  I swept the floors and around the baseboard areas to get rid of anything that may drift onto the wet paint.  Then mopped up as much of the grime as I could get!

The floor looked pretty good so I started painting the walls around the edges - wherever the paint roller would miss - nooks and crannies and corners!

 Each time I reloaded my paint roller, I also swished the mop head over the floors thinking the wet would loosen some of the year old dirt.  I think I got it as clean as it was going to get - but I kept the wet mop handy for any paint drips!

 Then I proceeded to the walls - I was doing great but the six foot ladder I had was not tall enough to reach all the way to the top corners of that gigantic wall!  I finished painting over all the green and arranged to pick up an 8 foot ladder tomorrow! After washing out all the brushes, I thought 'Why didn't I check the height of the room before I started?!' Oh well! Lesson learned - you only have to wash out the brushes and rollers once if you've done your homework! See you tomorrow after day two - finish painting and  . . .