I worked at Adrienne’s house today. After hearing about the infamous Green Room
the night before, I was expecting something spectacular. My hopes were fulfilled and then some; the
room was plastered with a putrid shade of almost-neon green. When I say plastered, I literally mean
plastered. Whoever had painted the room previously
had not put down primer before painting, and, somehow, this resulted in the
paint’s unique property of pealing from the wall in some places but being
nearly impossible to remove in others.
Thankfully, I was assigned to a different room at the beginning of the
day. I spent the morning painting white
trim without the peace of mind that painting tape offers (we were trying to
save time). This turned out to not be as
big of a deal as I thought it would be.
As long as you made yourself forget that there was very little room for
error and reassured yourself that a line that looks slightly crooked close-up can
still look perfectly straight from far away, it was actually a very relaxing
and enjoyable experience. We finished
the trim just before lunch (and it looked AMAZING), so I went to check on the
Green Room. Seeing as it was still
green, I thought to myself, “how hard can it be?” and jumped in with a scraper
tool that I’m sure has some technical name.
It was at this point that I noticed the original painter’s true
adoration for green. The windowsill was
green. The door was green. The hinges were green. The trim was blue. Just kidding, it was green too. After scraping for a little while, it was
thankfully time for lunch. Once I
finished my lunch, I went back up to the Green Room, as, for some reason, I
just couldn’t stay away. After spending 2-3
hours scraping, it was finally in good enough shape to start prepping the room
for painting. We didn’t actually start
painting it today; instead, we spent the rest of the time sandpapering and
washing the walls, putting down drop cloths, and putting up painter’s
tape. Tomorrow, we look forward to
painting the room lavender. Then, it
will perhaps be called the Lavender Room.
But it will always be the Green Room to us. J
Em SeGraves
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