So much for resting the leg up. I also slept funny so it's so sore. Painkillers full steam ahead.
Today is finish the hallway.
Yesterday I got bored and pulled out a sofa and bookcase and hoovered under them, then wiped the skirting board. So while I was enjoying a clean skirting board I decided to wipe the skirting boards and wall down in the hallway. The paint is emulsion so it's conversion from nasty ice white to peach continued. It's a textured wallpaper with roses on so the high bits were peach and fading down to ice white with some grey. It was hideous. Did you see the tense change there?
The hall is now antique cream, the same colour as the 5L tin we had in the garage.
I roped the Husband initially to do the small bit at the bottom of the stairs. But now 3/4 of the entire hallway is done. Downstairs from the kitchen door to the front door, across above the front door, above and below the window next to the door. then right up to the stairs to the landing. As well as above the banister on the other side and that bit on the other wall downstairs where youngest indulged in permanent pen. It's a U shape with one long side and a tiny bit inwards from the long side for the hallway upstairs, and we've done the outside of the long side of the entire shape, plus the top 3/4 of the inside of the long side. I'll try and recreate it using the keyboard. Long bit is the stairs, we've done the entire outer surface of that shape.
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We have to take the roller over the whole bottom that I brush painted because as it was plastered very roughly. There's brush work up the big wall surface to get the bits we missed, thank you textured flowery wallpaper from the 80s that no one removed. There's a small amount to be done in the top hallway as well, we're leaving one wall because it needs some repair work to retouch the plaster after a leak. That wasn't us, the landlord did that, but we will have enough paint to leave for to do that wall. And repaint future scuffs. Under the radiator wasn't painted (...!?) so we did that as well.
It's also emulsion, but it's not our house so we stuck with the theme. Also used what we owned which was handy. To be honest, it looks so much nicer than ice white pith peach highlights in places with marks that you couldn't get off. Being such a pale shade of cream it's not that much different. Other than lacking scuffs not not glaring. The landlord won't care, he's said as much in the past about a bit upstairs in the kids room.
We're thinking about painting the banisters, windowsill and skirting boards.
Why does emulsion exist? I couldn't wipe the wall to get rid of dust and whatever the marks were there beforehand, I still can't, but the big nasty marks are gone. Also the wall isn't a hideous ice white so bonus.
Today.
Ban children from the hallway between the livingroom to the kitchen. Take everything off the coat rack, put it outside and give it a good wipe down. Put the antique table in the livingroom. wipe it and the wall down as well then paint/roller it. Maybe a polish for the table. Roller the rough plasterboard downstairs, the white wall, brush and mop, paint upstairs and the bit below the banister to finish off the stairs. Paint around the doors upstairs. Much more fiddly.
Open the windows. Yesterday got a bit woozy.
