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i'm going to start painting my bathroom today. here's the agenda, to be completed over the next couple of days, or however long it takes:
1. apply bleach solution to the shower/tub ceiling to kill the mildew. (i'm going to do that momentarily...i may need to repeat the process a couple of times, because the mildew is bad--it was there when i moved in, and while it hasn't gotten any worse under my leadership, i have lived here for 2.5 years at this point.)
2. do some scraping, sanding, and spackling all over the room. i might have to repair some plaster in the tub ceiling--there are a couple of spots where the paint has bubbled up, and one spot where it has pulled away from the wall over a rather large area, and there's a crack down the middle of that bubble. i have no idea what's going on behind there, but i'll find out and fix it, whatever it is. i also want to try to scrape the paint off the fixtures where someone painted without masking, previously.
3. re-caulk the tub.
4. give the walls a final wash-down with tsp. or...do we have to use a phosphate-free version in washington? i'll find out. it has always struck me as funny, that the label for that stuff says "phosphate free tsp." how can trisodium phosphate be phosphate free? the answer: it can't. it is a completely different substance. but manufacturers think american consumers won't recognize the product as a tsp substitute, unless they put tsp on the label. lol.
5. mask.
6. prime.
7. paint. probably white, but i'm thinking of putting in some black accents here and there--maybe i'll do all the trim in black high gloss enamel. the floor is mostly white tile (aged to grayish since it was installed in about 1925) with black and peachy pink accents. everything else in the room is white, except i recently got a nice black loopy rug that feels good under freshly showered toes. but the room needs something!
when that's done, i'm probably going to size up the paint situation in the rest of my apartment, and i may turn this into a much bigger job.
p.s. what ever happened to allison moyet, anyway? i don't listen to yaz all that often, but whenever i do her voice blows me the fuck away. even with that cheezy synth crap behind her. (can't fault the beat, anyway. good painting music!)
1. apply bleach solution to the shower/tub ceiling to kill the mildew. (i'm going to do that momentarily...i may need to repeat the process a couple of times, because the mildew is bad--it was there when i moved in, and while it hasn't gotten any worse under my leadership, i have lived here for 2.5 years at this point.)
2. do some scraping, sanding, and spackling all over the room. i might have to repair some plaster in the tub ceiling--there are a couple of spots where the paint has bubbled up, and one spot where it has pulled away from the wall over a rather large area, and there's a crack down the middle of that bubble. i have no idea what's going on behind there, but i'll find out and fix it, whatever it is. i also want to try to scrape the paint off the fixtures where someone painted without masking, previously.
3. re-caulk the tub.
4. give the walls a final wash-down with tsp. or...do we have to use a phosphate-free version in washington? i'll find out. it has always struck me as funny, that the label for that stuff says "phosphate free tsp." how can trisodium phosphate be phosphate free? the answer: it can't. it is a completely different substance. but manufacturers think american consumers won't recognize the product as a tsp substitute, unless they put tsp on the label. lol.
5. mask.
6. prime.
7. paint. probably white, but i'm thinking of putting in some black accents here and there--maybe i'll do all the trim in black high gloss enamel. the floor is mostly white tile (aged to grayish since it was installed in about 1925) with black and peachy pink accents. everything else in the room is white, except i recently got a nice black loopy rug that feels good under freshly showered toes. but the room needs something!
when that's done, i'm probably going to size up the paint situation in the rest of my apartment, and i may turn this into a much bigger job.
p.s. what ever happened to allison moyet, anyway? i don't listen to yaz all that often, but whenever i do her voice blows me the fuck away. even with that cheezy synth crap behind her. (can't fault the beat, anyway. good painting music!)
