The Library - Part I

So we have always hated the mint-greeniness of the spare room, (the one I optimistically call the library, but which ends up being a bedroom for some member(s) of my family for most of the year) and three weeks ago I finally got around to painting it.

Well, I finally got around to start to paint it. Unloading the books took a whole day - all 29 cubic feet of them - and moving all the furniture to the middle of the room took another (because I had to stop and sort the thousands of pieces of paper I unearthed in the process). 

Then in the middle of all this the doctors started sticking needles into me so that kind of put a crimp in my plans...

Anyway, in the middle of painting the room, we figured we might as well take advantage of the fact  that the bookshelves were empty and add some more shelves. We've been toying around with a plan to raise the bookshelves and add storage below them for a while now, but been too busy to do anything about it. So last Saturday we took ourselves down to San Diego and appropriated the backyard, garage and tools of a friend.

So after two days of sawing and sanding we finally had all the pieces we needed, so we went back home and I got back to painting.

Things I Learned: 

1) Covering mint-green walls needs two coats of primer and three coats of yellow.

2) If I actually watched the ads I would know that you can get paint with primer already added to it, so you only need to do the three coats of yellow.

3) When you live on the seventh floor, it's very disconcerting to find people walking along outside your windows (our building is being painted and there is scaffolding outside our flat)

4) Painting the top of a twelve foot wall high is scary - especially next to a window that looks down seven stories...