Dusted

Today I started to finish a project- I wanted to scrap/sandoff the remaining glue left behind when we stripped the wallpaper in the hallway. Even while taking the wallpaper down originally, we were scrapping a lot of glue, but there is too much left behind to ignore. Not only am I concerned that if I left it, the glue would seep through the primer and paint, but the texture it left on the walls was terrible! I am convinced that they had applied the glue to the wall and then also used preglued wallpaper. There's so much glue!

Tom was hunting for the weekend and I began this project in the morning. I still hadn't finished until late after he got home. He helped me finish. My right arm and elbow had gone numb! I still just can't believe how much glue was used to put up that wall paper. The only way to get this stuff off was to sand it. 

 I taped up some plastic to try and contain the dust. There was just too much! Can you believe this?!? After I finished sanding, I used the shop vac to get up as much dust as possible. Then, I did take some hot water and sponged the walls down again. I just don't want this stuff to seep through the primer and paint. 

Finally, it's done though. I am excited to get the paint up! We are just going to use the bright standard white. There's zero natural light in this hallway. Bummer!

Paint it... Well... not Black...

At this point, the floors are refinished, the walls and ceilings are primed. I  picked out some colors. Literally just went into Lowes and picked from the color cards. I just crossed my fingers that they would work out. We used Valspar Reserve with a flat finish for the living room and the three rooms. The ceilings we used the standrad bright white because to me, there is not enough natural light in the space to use an eggshell color.

We started painting the color in our room and the small rooms first so that we can finally move our bedroom from the living room and our boxes from the garage.

We did Urban Sunrise, and I LOVE this gray.

We did the painting in this room just after we finished the hardwood floors, so it was done much earlier in October, but I just never got around to posting about our colors.

It is perfect!

 We did the same color in the two small rooms. We used Cinncinnatian Hotel Hannaford. Isn't that quite a name for a paint color? I guess you can only have so many variations of beige before you need to get super creative! 

We kind of hate this color. I feel like I am sitting in a fish bowl!