Painter's pain

Happy Monday!! No…that’s just too cheery, how about “only 4 days until the weekend!” unless you’re like me and have weekdays off and work the weekend, then that doesn’t apply either! Geez this is hard! I’m just trying to say hi, so maybe I should stick to that haha.

Ok Kids, today’s lesson will be in painting or at least telling you my experience and hoping you get something out it. I decided a few days ago to paint my bedroom as I just moved into a new place a couple of weeks ago and 3 of the walls were painted an extremely dark green and made the room look so small and it was an ugly shade. I opted for a light beige type for those walls and a dark brown for the 4^th wall to be the accent wall. I had my mind made up so it was time to find the brand to use. I asked a few people what brands they used to paint their homes and looked into them all and was almost ready to choose one when all of a sudden out of nowhere, a random brand popped up in my search. I immediately fell in love with it! For anyone looking to paint, I recommend it 100%! It’s called Loop Paint and you can check them out here www.looppaint.ca

Are you ready for this? Ok, it’s a company based in Ontario that takes unused paint from home projects and recycles it! They reprocess it and it is then sold at a much lower cost than the big brands. The best part is that the paint is usually reclaimed from the big brands so the quality is awesome! They also plant a tree for every gallon sold so I’m all for it and I think you should give it a try. They do have a limited amount of colours but it’s still a good selection. Currently the only retailer that sells it is Wal-Mart but hopefully in the future they will be available elsewhere for those that aren’t near one or maybe don’t shop there.

The experience of painting on the other hand, left me wishing for more help.  Based on scheduling and not really asking people for help, I ended up doing it myself with a bit of help for about an hour from a friend. I would like to advise anyone thinking of doing this to stop and ask for help! It might be that I’m out of shape and so any type of physical activity harms me but I’m really sore today from painting one small room! You might be in a better place to do it yourself but I sure wasn’t! Nevertheless, I have finished 2 coats on each wall and only have some touch ups left to do. It was definitely a productive weekend but I didn’t rest as much as I would have liked. Now I’m feeling that today and wish I had the power to move things with my mind so I could finish without the labour tonight. I’ll be fine once it’s done as the colours are perfect for that room so yay!

 

That’s it for now, I may post some pictures of the end result but I won’t promise because I’m the worst for picture taking. Hope you enjoy the rest of your Monday and that the days go by quickly until your time off!  Byeeeeeeeeee