Nursery Work

In case you were wondering, work is currently happening in the nursery. Here's the visual review.

July 1st. Taping begins. There was a prequel, that you didn't see. It involved Eric removing all the staples from the floor, vacuuming and then sealing the floor with Kilz. Kilz smells awful, so I was no where near it. Then the next day, Scott and Sierra showed up to start removing the last few items from the room, the taping, putting on the coat of primer for the yellow and the first coat of blue on the ceiling.

It was hot, so I wasn't very excited about going up and down stairs to take pictures. Trust me, work happened. Time passed and yet more work happened. Eric put a second coat of blue on the ceiling and then re-taped the wall for the 1st yellow coat. This was then followed by a second coat of yellow, re-taping for the green wall and then determining that primer was needed for the green wall to cover up the blue drips from the ceiling and oh, now that you have it patched with primer in spots, you might as well prime the whole thing and then paint it green.

All of this brings us to today which then leads to these pictures. Eric is cutting in the last of the primer where it meets the blue and yellow.
A couple of hours later, the first coat of green is done!
Is that a glorious shade of blue or what?! I can't quite get the green to "pop" on the screen the way it does in person, but trust me, it does. The yellow is a little eyeball searing, isn't it? Oh well. If I truly hate it, I'll repaint it when I'm not longer pregnant. Add 2 years or so for me to care enough....

Remember The Plan?

1. Remove carpeting and pad. Done!
2. Remove staples in floor. Done!
3. Remove baseboards. Done!
4. Vacuum floor. Done!
5. Paint with Kilz to seal in anything...unpleasant. Done!
6. Paint ceiling in fabulous dark blue (Called Deep Space). Done!
7. Begin painting walls. In progress!
8. Add stars, moon, sun, spaceship and rocketship using glow in the dark paint.
9. Apply stencils/stamps.
10. Once the walls are done, remove fan.
11. Install new fan.
12. Install new flooring.
13. Install new baseboards.
14. Pass out from fumes.
15. Install bookcases, crib, rocking chair and sundry other nursery items.
16. Photograph everything for posterity because the room will never be this organized and clean, ever again.
17. Drinks for everyone! Except the Preggosaurus, who will grumble into her lemonade while being uninhibitedly thrilled that the nursery is done and she didn't have to inhale more fumes than necessary.

Tomorrow, Eric will likely put the second coat of green on and then it will be time to touch up the ceiling again (I can see some places where the paint is a little thin) and then get ready for the detail work. Sierra had a cool idea about painting grass onto the yellow wall and then adding in the butterflies and dragonflies, I guess so they aren't just floating around in space. Me? Not nit-picky enough to want to subject my friends to hand painting grass, but if Sierra wants to, then I'm cool with it. So we'll see how that goes.

You'll get to see, too!