The “What The Heck Was I Thinking” Stage Of The Project

My next idea is where things really slowed me down. I decided to start painting the stripes using the main paint colors first (i.e., the actual samples that I bought) before mixing the rest of the paint color just so that I could see how much paint each color was going to take. So I taped off the first color and painted those.

Each color required three coats of paint since Sherwin Williams’ paint samples aren’t actually paint. They’re tinted primer. But since it would have cost about three times more for the paint, I decided to stick with the samples.

After doing three of the colors that way (taping off that single color, painting three coats, removing the tape, and then moving on to the next color), I decided to go ahead and tape off all of the main colors at once.

I don’t know if this was faster, but it felt more satisfying not to have to stop after each color and do more taping.

So in hindsight, I wish I would have taken a whole different route. Seeing just how little paint each color takes (there are only about six stripes of each color), I wish I would have gone ahead and mixed up all of my colors first, and then taped off every other stripe on the top and bottom rows and painted all of them. Then I’d be ready to paint all of the other colors in those two rows the next day (using painters tape for delicate surfaces). That way, I could have gotten two rows finished in about two days. And then the middle row would have taken two days using that same process.

But now, since I have random stripes painted on the top and bottom rows, I’ve complicated things for myself, and it’s going to take longer to get them all done. *Sigh* Oh well. Live and learn, right?

I’m just going to keep pressing on. I’m really not frustrated…yet. And I’m not actually second-guessing my overall decision to do this design on the walls. Y’all know how much I love tedious and repetitious creative projects. I know they can get kind of boring if you’re the one watching, following along on the progress, and waiting anxiously to see the final results. But I could spend all of my days working on tedious and repetitious creative projects with a good podcast playing in my ears and be perfectly happy.

Anyway, I have another day of painting ahead of me. And probably a few more after that. As soon as I get these walls finished, the rest of this bathroom will be a breeze! I got the ceiling light, and it’s so cute, but I’ll share that later this week. I have the mirror, and it’s perfect. So at this point, I have everything I need to finish this bathroom. I just need to get busy and do it.