The Pesky Final Blue Switch Plate

Yesterday I painted most of the switch and outlet plates for my room.  The one I did not finish, though, was the three switch one for the bathroom.  The main reason it did not get painted in the first round was that it was broken, so I wanted to replace it.

I picked up a new last night (splurged an extra $1 for the unbreakable style), painted it, and got it ready to put up this morning.  However, in trying to install it we realized the reason the other one was broken was that it had to be sort of jammed over the light switched because the closet trim is so close to the left side of the switches.  Thus Mom got tasked with sanding the edge down.

Well, by evening it still was not installed, as somewhere along the way Mom stopped sanding.  She made it seem like it was a big effort sanding job, so I just went out to the garage and got the electric sander.  Ten minutes later it was ready.  It would have been ready in five, but I had to stop to come inside to rewind the Nats game and see Bryce Harper steal home.

It still took some finagling to get the switch plate on, but I now have an uncracked switch plate that is also blue to match the rest.

My FLOR Installed!!

Today we got the FLOR installed in the main part of my room.  Just a little to be done in the hallway and my closet at some point soon.  Overall it worked out pretty easy, although Dad did end up cutting one of the corner pieces wrong two to three times before getting it right.  Not a big deal, though, because we have plenty of extra tiles, especially since the one closet Mom is keeping as her "junk" closet is not going to be cleared out to do anytime soon.

I had been looking for just the right color for my room and when this design first showed up in the FLOR catalog I knew it was perfect color wise for my room.  I was not entirely sure how the randomness of this type of tile was going to end up, but it worked out great with only a few tiles having to be switched around because they looked funny next to each other after just laying them out as we unpacked them.

Painting my Switch and Outlet Plates Blue

While Mom and Dad worked on ripping out the carpet and getting my room ready for the Flor tiles, I took the easy task of painting the outlet and switch plates blues before putting them back on the white walls.  After spilling Dad's cup on the counter and a half hour of him nicely cleaning up the mess I made, I painted the plates with the Sorcerer Blue paint, so they match the one blue wall and the blue ledge.  I knew it would make the white walls more interesting, but I was surprised what a simple little color made quite an amazing difference.  I still have a really awesome Sorcerer Hat thing to make for the wall opposite the blue one, though.

Let's See If the Painter Sticks to the Wall

On Friday, Mom and I finally began to tackle the final painting for the Master Bedroom.  The painting has been a work in progress since December when we decided Mom should move out instead of us and I was going take the Master Bedroom.  The majority of the painting was done by January, but there was still some patching, sanding, and edging to do.

I ended up being better at the edging, so Mom was tasked with sanding, painting those areas, and painting the trim.  She was painting with a Shur-Line Handi Painter and I was standing on the ladder nearby painting the ledge.  I look down and see her let go of the painter to do something else.  I yell Mom as the painter falls to the carpet splattering paint.

Yes, the painter stuck to the wall for a few seconds before falling, but no a painter does not stay stuck for long.  I do not remember what she was doing, but I do know that in the moment she seemed to think it would stay on the wall while she did it.

Sadly, the paint that ended up on the carpet from that incident is actually just makes that part of the room blend in with the rest of the room, which has spots of blue and gray from those previously involved in the painting project.  The carpet was on the list to replace from the start, but before the painting project it was just dirty and now it is totally grungy.