Another project while the toddler's away

A few weeks ago Babycake went down to visit her grandparents for a weekend. While hubby assumed we would be having a relaxing weekend, I had other plans :-) At the time I was working about 5 hrs a day while at home with Babycake and pregnant. So, there was a lot of things I'd been wanting to do that I no longer had time for like when I wasn't working... or pregnant.

When hubby and I bought the house, we knew we would have to work on a lot of the rooms. As I've shared in other posts, we've worked on almost every room in the house, from painting to completely gutting. This particular weekend however, I wanted to repaint the bathroom. I'd painted it twice already. The room is incredibly small, and the first color of paint I had picked a pale purple that ended up still being too dark for the space. The second color was a good color and shade, but I bought cheap paint and it started to crack within a week after being painted.

laundry storage wall

laundry rm wall

So we started to paint the bathroom with some paint I had bought over the summer, but never had a toddler free day to get the project done. After a couple of swipes with the roller however and I was afraid that the pale blue I had picked was still too dark for our tiny bathroom. So I took the pale blue that was bought for the bathroom and the hubs and I tackled our disgusting laundry room. The previous home owners tried to paint the walls a horrible puke green color over the black industrial drywall. It did not work out well and the room always looked grimy b/c of it. But now with our new coat of fresh paint the laundry room feels much brighter, bigger, and cleaner.

After we finished our laundry room paint job, that took about an hr, we headed to Lowes to acquire some paint that would not be too dark for the bathroom. As soon as we returned we tackled the bathroom. It took about 2 coats and a few touch ups but the bathroom looks great. It's a testament to room sizing b/c now that both rooms are done the paint looks the same, however, when the paint strips are next to each other you can see a difference. Hubby can't tell the difference in color from the teal blue we had before to the extremely pale blue we have now. I can tell and I'm perfectly happy with it. I'm just glad we don't have cracking paint that may chip with a baby on the way.

While at Lowes getting the bathroom paint I also picked out and bought paint for our baby boy's room (due in May). We did not get to painting his room over our spontaneous project weekend. Hubby was so tired from the work I had put him too on the other two rooms I didn't have the heart to make him do another. Especially when I had told him we would only be doing the bathroom... and the fact that he's not the best painter I've worked with... But this coming week, hubby is working out of town and Babycake is going to stay with grandparents, so I'll have the house and all my projects to myself. I'm trying not to be too optimistic about all I could accomplish with the free time. I have to keep reminding myself that in my 3rd trimester state I can not push myself to do all I could in my non-pregnant state.