Emily's bedroom gets a makeover

Why is it that kids always want to pick the color of their bedroom?  We think its great fun to let them.  Hence the sunshine yellow of Matt's room in our Hightower house and Emily's Botanical Tint painted room at Comet Circle.

It started off with an amazingly bright blue that had been touched up with SPRAY PAINT.  I kid you not.  Someone used spray paint to possibly cover imperfections in the paint and we were left with something much worse.  The runs and the smooth sheen stuck out like sore thumbs on the walls.  We didn't think a paint color existed, besides black, that would cover this color so we had to prime the walls first.  

Emily cutting in with the primer

 Some crack repair was required as well.  I think we may have caused several cracks when we jacked up the first floor to fix the sagging floors.  There were also nice holes from where the curtain hardware had been installed and subsequently removed.

Mark repairing cracks near the window

 Our work was completed on Day 1 after the drywall spackle and primer was applied

Spackle and primer drying

 At the beginning of Day two we still had two spots near the window that needed more attention - stubborn cracks that got an additional coat of spackle.  We painted around them and then finished up later.

Ready for paint color

Emily finding multiple ways to use a paint pan and roller - defending her castle

 The paint went on surprisingly well.  I thought for sure that we would have to apply two coats to cover the dark color and the spray paint but that was not the case.  Only had to do one so it was a super quick job.  I have an extra gallon of paint if anyone has a hankering for "mint ice cream" walls.

Mark finishing up the final coat

We learned that the green paint would have covered the dark blue even without the primer coat.  Not sure how it would have been over the spray paint but it was amazing to me that it covered as well as it did.  Below is a picture of Emily's closet.  We used this area as a place to clean our brushes and rollers of excess paint.  Eventually I will rip out all the shelves, paint the closet white (so that we don't have to paint it every time we change the paint color in the room - yes I anticipate re-doing this room when it is no longer Emily's - HAHA) and rebuild all the shelving.

Emily's Bedroom Closet