So we've spent the day repainting the former Leprechaun kingdom. The acid green faux brickwork is gone. It took surprisingly few coats of paint to cover it. We chose a semi-gloss paint called "Lemon Pearl". It's a very subtle creamy yellow. It's also very shiny. We could see the lights reflected in it even after it dried. It will be very, very bright in there once all the lights get fixed tomorrow.
With all that drying paint, the humidity got crazy high in Part II. There were rivulets of paint mixed with condensation running down the windows by the time we were done. We had a bit of a dilemma with that and finally solved it by removing the mural in the arch. It had to be done sooner or later. We just chose the sooner option.
Anyway, we managed to get the mural out mostly intact. It is, in case you were curious, painted directly on drywall panels. Two of them, in fact. The mural is in two pieces now (split right down the middle) but should be relatively easy to reassemble and touch up. I'm pretty sure we did more damage to the building than we did to the mural, so careful were we removing it with the intention of saving it. Geepers I hope our landlord doesn't read this.
Sorry, it seems to me I'm very not being coherent much. Blame paint fumes mixed with lack of sleep.
Anyway, the archway is open again for the first time in I don't know how many years. We've got a lot of fixing to do tomorrow.
I want to express my extreme gratitude to the following people who showed up and generously donated their precious time and efforts toward the cause today:
Alice Borawski,
Cameron Marshall,
Allison Currie,
Craig Sheppard
and Rob Swyrd
You guys absolutely rock!
We're back at it tomorrow. Now that the painting is done we're going to clean up and get started on the floor...
On a related note, if anyone has a good recommendation as to how to get paint/primer out of a dog, please drop me a line.
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