Along with the wallpaper we have popcorn ceilings, a fantastic gift from years past. Initially we thought lets scrape this S^&* off, then in my infinite wisdom and desire to speed up the renovating process I decided to paint over it, freshen it up a little.
Here is why it needed to be freshened up:
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White is new paint, yellow is nicotine stains! GROSS |
Well, was I wrong, wrong, wrong. You see freshening up popcorn ceilings can't really be done, well it can it just has to be done correctly. By correctly I mean, don't paint your popcorn ceiling with a water based paint, never, ever, ever! It is preferable to do it with a shellac, or oil based paint. Especially when nicotine staining is involved.
I started in Gavin's room, that went well, paint went on nicely, then moved out into the hallway, again going well, headed out into the living room, did one coat here, then went down to Emily's room, hmm, that was a bit tricky, not going so well here, let's stop for lunch then, after lunch we shall go back to painting.
The first coat of the water based stuff went on well, but as it dried I could tell the staining was coming through in the living room, this is despite using stain blocking paint. So after it dried a few hours I hit it again with some more stain blocking paint/ceiling paint and sha BAM... bubbles, and not just little bubbles that you might be able to get away with, I mean 2 feet by 4 feet bubbles in the middle of the freaking living room ceiling. I had over saturated the popcorn, unwillingly that is, (sorry no photos, I was too pissed off).
You can imagine my reaction went something like this "mother %&(#$() &%*( *%*TU, %*%*(^)@_ %%())) beep, beep, beep, beep", a paint roller may have been thrown across the room, with 10 foot pole attached, also a paint scraper and a few other things, plus some more expletives as well were tossed around. Oh and yes, Jeff did attempt to drop the "I told you so" but that was quickly shut down, I know I was wrong, but I don't need to be reminded of that right now, especially after a bucket of Killz stain blocking paint, 1 bucket of Behr ceiling paint, an old and slightly faded pair of Lulelemon yoga pants, and my afternoon of effort was thrown down shit creek with the paddles!
Have you ever seen me mad? not a fun lady, nice, lovely Sarah turns into a raging mad bull. But a few deep breaths and a trip to Home Depot to throw another $40 bucks in the garbage later I was all good. I spent$40 bucks on 2 spray cans of Homax textured ceiling in a can, which was a total waste of money. But I needed to see if I could solve my epic FAIL. 1 can ended up covering about 1 square foot of ceiling, and most of it ended up spraying all over the room, onto me and I even managed to get it on the window which I still have to clean up. (Pay no attention to the cutesy you tube video of the nicely dressed man applying this stuff, it is utter bull!
Oh, how did I become all good? I did what we were going to do in the beginning, I located the scraper that had been thrown across the house and scraped my afternoon of effort away. Hmm, that was fun, the freshly painted popcorn ceiling came off rather nicely, in large sheets that went 'plop, plop' on the sub floor.
Now we have a smooth flat ceiling that is ready to be painted, again. That is after I get some professional painter person advice in the guise of a visit from the man down the street that shall remain nameless.
Stay tuned for the next adventure in ceiling painting.
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