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When Jtu was in town for the alpha chi 75th, she offered to help with my bathroom. Now, skittle is a very colorful apartment to begin with (skittle won out over crayola for what I'd call it because, well, I think crayola should look better.) Now, I wasn't that inclined to fix all of the paint issues because that's time and money that I put into a place I don't expect to be in for more than 2 or 3 years. But the bathroom glowed. It's, well, sorta like this. It glowed. It glows when there's lots of light, it almost glows in the dark. I have a travel soap holder about that color. The bathroom is like being inside the soap case with a light, a beige shower, a white sink and a white toilet.
When I was sanding it (thank you, Mommy, for the power sander!I should get that back to you.) Dan & Jtu came in and pointed out when I was done that even if I didn't paint over it, it was better sanded than it was otherwise. I believe the previous painters used a combination of a smooth roller, a cat, a finger-painter, and a yak to paint the mint green. There were just so many textures! Some of it is smooth, some rough, some really bumpy, some seems gashed and painted over, some seems intentionally zigzagged.
I had forgotten to consider wedgewinkle. The color I wound up with is called sea sprite. I was afraid it would come off too light, but I think it came out ok. Slightly deeper would probably match my taste better, but it is still so much better than the mint. I'm considering this practice for if I ever get a chance to color a place. I still need to hang the pictures in it.
The one problem with it is that there seemed to be some crazy soap scum that didn't sand off. There are streaks where the paint just cracked. I had thought it was just that when we first painted, it was really dry and I hadn't done anything to humidify the bathroom as we were painting. The first time was 3 of us- kareid, jtu, and me- and it dried so fast that I would put down a layer, try to wet my roller more, and start just above the layer to blend into it and immediately pull up some of the paint I'd just put down. A drop that had fallen on my hand and split very quickly, so I figured that's how the cracking happened. But the second layer was better humidified, dried much slower, behaved much better... and still cracked. If I try to fix it, it will be in the summer when I don't have to worry about the humidity.
Now the great question: how long before all the pixie dust (sanded off mint green paint) is gone?