I crossed a serious hurdle with the house fitness center progress final night time. As of final night time, all the trim is painted, all the stripes on the partitions have been touched up, and the outlet plates have been put in and painted. This was starting to really feel just like the by no means ending portray challenge, so I’m very relieved and excited to lastly have this performed!
I initially painted these striped partitions in June 2021, after which the room sat unfinished as I turned my consideration to the grasp rest room rework. But if you want to see how I did the stripes, you can check out the DIY process here.
Once I began engaged on this room once more, after ending the toilet rework, issues seemed like this…
About half of the trim across the ceiling had been put in, so I nonetheless wanted to put in the remainder, wooden fill, sand, caulk and paint. The entire door and window trim had been put in and wooden crammed, but it surely nonetheless wanted to be sanded, caulked, and painted. After which the partitions wanted a ton of touchups.
Right here’s a little bit of irony. I initially needed to put in crown molding on this room, however after putting in one piece, I spotted that I didn’t like the way it seemed on this room. However not putting in crown molding put me in a little bit of a bind as a result of once I painted the stripes on the partitions, I did so with the mindset that they’d be capped off with crown molding on the prime, so I didn’t trouble with portray the stripes completely alongside the ceiling.
So with a purpose to keep away from having to touchup each single stripe within the room alongside the ceiling, I made a decision to put in this small trim across the ceiling…
Nicely, my plan fully backfired on me. Once I tried to color that small trim white to match the ceiling, I couldn’t get the paint line excellent sufficient for my liking the place it met the wall. (Basically, I’m doing quite a bit higher with my perfectionism, and should even name myself a “recovering perfectionist,” however there are some areas, like paint strains, the place I’ll by no means get previous my perfectionism.)
I didn’t need to use painters tape on the partitions as a result of, as I realized once I initially did the partitions, that may grow to be a nightmare with the tape peeling off elements of the stripes, together with the tiny white stripes between the colours. So I ended up not even making an attempt to be excellent about portray the trim white, after which I had to return and touchup the highest of each single stripe within the room. So all I ended up doing with that little trim was including work that I didn’t must do. 😀
Isn’t hindsight an ideal factor? Oh properly. We dwell and study, proper? At the very least it’s all completed now, and I can transfer on to different issues.
Being on this room is like dwelling within a pack of Fruit Stripe gum, and I completely find it irresistible! 😀
The big teal stripe is the place I’m going to construct a Swedish ladder (aka, stall bars).
And please be aware how meticulously I included the outlet covers into the wall design. 😀
Once I need to paint outlet covers, I at all times buy the kind that covers the entire outlet and is labeled “paintable”. They’ve a texture to them that permits the paint to stick very simply, and the paint doesn’t scratch off of them like it’s going to in case you paint the shiny plastic sort. I’ve had certainly one of these on the outlet on the tip of the peninsula in my kitchen because it was final painted in 2017, and that outlet is used ceaselessly, and it nonetheless appears to be like nice. Right here’s a better view of one of many shops.
I may severely stand on this room and stare in any respect of this superb shade all day lengthy. I used to be telling somebody simply yesterday that I had assumed that as I received older, my love of shade would possibly begin to wane a bit, and I’d simply naturally begin to gravitate in the direction of calmer, extra impartial interiors. However I really feel just like the very reverse is occurring.
As I’ve gotten older, my love of shade has solely grown extra intense, and I discover myself regularly in search of methods so as to add increasingly more shade to my dwelling. I’m very blessed to have a husband who doesn’t thoughts my love of shade.
The one rule he at all times gave me was “no pink partitions”, however even that has grow to be extra of a working joke than an precise rule. I do know for a incontrovertible fact that if I actually needed to color a room pink, he’d don’t have any drawback with it so long as it’s not scorching pink. That’s his line within the sand. 😀
At the same time as not too long ago as final night time, I used to be nonetheless planning on portray the 2 doorways on this room black. However now that I see the completed partitions and trim within the daylight, I’m leaning in the direction of white. I really feel like black could be too jarring for these partitions. I’ll be utilizing loads of black in the remainder of the room (beginning with your entire flooring), however I now suppose the doorways must be white.
Now that the partitions are performed, I feel that issues are going to start out coming collectively shortly on this room.
I nonetheless have a number of paint touchups to do on the ceiling, however that must be very fast. After which I would like to color the doorways. That ought to end up the portray in the principle a part of the room (I’m ignoring the closet space for now).
I’ve all the foam fitness center flooring that I’m going to make use of, so it will possibly go down as quickly as I get the room cleared out (once more) and clear the ground. The window shades had been delivered on Saturday, and I’ve had the curtains, curtain rods, and curtain rings for a very long time now. Each of the lights that I need to check out for the “entryway” of this room have arrived, so I must unbox the second and determine for positive which one I need to use. And the dresser that I purchased for the closet space has been delivered.
Barring any unexpected circumstances, I really feel fairly assured that this room will probably be performed by the tip of this month! I will probably be ecstatic to lastly have this room performed, and to have a useful dwelling fitness center!!
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