The MOVE

We are in the process of getting our home ready to sell. That should not be toooo hard. We've only lived in it for 2 1/2 years! Well, when we bought the home we bought it "as is" and we never found time to paint a few of the rooms.


The one room Glenn did paint before we moved in was the beach room. The beach room was interesting: it had a beautiful light blue sky with rolling clouds. Then, on the wall, were the THREE LADIES IN BIKINIS. Those HAD to come off even if Zachary assured us that he'd "look the other way." These women were cartoon women, with large busts, big hips and ruby red lips! They were disgusting to us! Glenn began painting over and over and over and over with about 3 to 4 coats of red paint, and then green paint. The room came out nice for the boys... but for resale, NO WAY!

Last week Glenn began taping the room off - to get ready for the 5 to 6 coats of natural beige paint that it would take to cover up this red and green paint. As he began working with the tape and stuff he noticed that the paint "peeled" off very very easily. (Well of course it would, it was vinyl-like and had about 3 to 4 coats.) So our Friday Night Party involved getting all the kids into the room to peel paint! It was like peeling large pizza-sized chunks of paint off the wall - it was easy and fun!

It was a blast till we told Uncle Brent what we were doing. He questioned about the drywall and asked a few "thoughtful" questions that we had never even thought about... what is happening to the texture on the wall? are you taking the drywall off? will the paint stick to what you have left?

Of course "we should have NOT been doing what we were doing" and Uncle Brent came to the rescue last weekend. He and Glenn "re-mudded" the walls and the room is bikini-free, red & green paint-free and READY TO PAINT! Thanks Uncle Brent!

As for the move... we will continue to box and box and hopefully be out before the Holidays! :O