Hooray for little patches!

#4 and #10 on my February manini list done! Yay!

All but the kitchen took two coats, but it was easy enough since by the time I worked my way around the upstairs, the first room I did was ready for its second coat. (That’s one thing flat paint is good for, anyway.) I didn’t worry too much about the patch in the kitchen, since it was in a dark spot under the cabinets and behind the coffeemaker, and no one ever sees it except for the few times a year we pull out the coffeemaker and make coffee. I just wanted to cover up the glaring drywall white from the chip that was taken out of the paint.

I did skip out on painting over the patches in the blue room, however. When I got up close and personal and spackled in there yesterday, I noticed how bad the paint job is and how much gunk is on the walls (former young girl’s room = lotsa marks + tape residue). Repainting that room just slid up a few notches on the priority list. And maybe it should, since it’s the first room we see in the morning when leaving our bedroom, and it really isn’t a color I would have chosen for myself.

It’s hard to believe what a difference such little things make. We’ve lived in this house for more than five years now, and it is an ongoing Project with a capital P. Every time I turn a corner, I see eight more things I’d like to take care of, an effect magnified by working at home, since I see it all that much more by being here all day.

Not that I’m complaining. I love this house, and I love a good project.

It was just so nice to lay in bed last night and not be distracted by those two holes in the ceiling where the former owners had hung something (a swag lamp, maybe?), or the three holes in the wall above the bed where someone else’s pictures once hung. It will be nice to go into the master bath and not be confronted by the dozen or so holes left when the previous owners took out their shelves when they left (plus they left a couple of mismatched drywall anchors). Although we won’t get around to repainting the guest room and guest bath before we have another round of houseguests — or, let’s face it, before at least another year passes for the guest room and until we’re ready to completely remodel the guest bath — at least our guests won’t be confronted with swiss cheese walls.

Ha! Appropriate, because the walls in those rooms actually are kind of a swiss cheese pale yellow.

And having the last glaring swath of Pepto-Bismol pink gone just makes my heart sing.

Why did it take so long to get around to this one? Inertia. Burning desire to repaint all those upstairs rooms, and figuring I’d get around to it when it was time to repaint, but the high ceilings in the master bedroom and bathroom preclude DIY painting. Overwhelm on the project list. Higher-priority things coming first.

I’m glad that I tackled this one as part of my February project.