On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
At least, that’s how it went here yesterday.
A bottle of nail polish went flying as the girls were painting their nails, and it splashed all over the wall, the molding, and the tile.
(Wouldn’t you know, not two minutes earlier, I walked past the bathroom and thought, “Maybe I should send them outside to do this.”)
Nail polish cleans up beautifully on ceramic tile.
Grout, molding, and walls, though? Not so much.
So, I used grout paint on the whole bathroom floor (because freshly painting one area looks very bad and after a year, my grout paint job was looking a little dingy).
And I put two coats of paint on the molding (I think it’s gonna need a third. Jade nail polish is a bear to cover over!).
I think I’ll probably have to paint that whole wall as well, since the paint has been there for a number of years now, and fresh paint will probably be quite a different shade of gray/green.
At least this didn’t happen on the carpet. 😉
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P.S. I got an email last night from the Ultimate Bundle people. Apparently, their servers crashed for several hours yesterday, unbeknownst to me. To make up for the outage, the Healthy Living Bundle sale is extended until 12pm PDT today.
So, if you missed it yesterday, you’re in luck!
(I decided to buy a bundle of my own yesterday…researching the bundle for my post yesterday convinced me to buy it! Apparently, I market effectively to myself. Ha.)
Andrew @ Budgetopolis
Wednesday 17th of September 2014
I remember growing up, my parents almost always had a can or two of Kilz paint. They owned some rental property. They also had boys... I'm the oldest of four kids, and we had many various "adventures" which needed to be painted over. My youngest brother used to draw on the walls, and like a good artist, he would then sign his name (or at least the first two letters, as he was too young to know how to spell "Matthew"). Somehow, Mama always figured out who did it. :)
Kilz was a great primer, sealing oil stains, permanent markers, ground-in gunk, cigarette smoke film, and many other things which would show through paint. It should also cover the nail polish and the neon green original paint. As far as I know, Kilz is still available. It would probably cover that in one coat, then once it dries, you can cover with your "real" paint.
Kristen
Thursday 18th of September 2014
On that note-a few of my kids have drawn on the wall and signed their name. Which does make it very easy to find the culprit!
Diane C
Wednesday 17th of September 2014
If painting over the spot doesn't work, you might try painting just the one wall. The difference in shades is minimized if the joins are in the corners.
Kristen
Wednesday 17th of September 2014
Yes, that's my plan! One side of the wall joins the shower wall, so no contrast there. And the other meets a wall behind the door, so it's in a fairly dark place that's mostly covered by molding. So I have high hopes of being able to paint just one wall.
Linda
Tuesday 16th of September 2014
Always listen to that inner voice Sometimes it may turn out to be the Holy Spirit.
Gladys (The Pinay Mom)
Tuesday 16th of September 2014
I'm looking forward on your post about painting your walls.We're thinking about it in a year or two.Our girls did some "painting" on it using markers and pens.We tried magic eraser and other tricks out there but it didn't help.So,painting our wall again will solve the problem,I think.
Madeline
Tuesday 16th of September 2014
Well, I have actually done this MYSELF..sent a bottle of flaming red nail polish all over the bathtub,where I had been propping my toes.. and tile.. luckily, my husband was able to get it all up before we had to repaint anything!
At the very least, you got to refresh your bathroom look!