It's been fun, though!

I'm helping my friend do a "While You Were Out" room makeover for her teenaged son. (He's at Boy Scout camp til this Saturday.)

We got the paint and did our planning, cleaning out his room, and I painted the front of the drawers gray from about 1:00 to 5:30... Then I got back about 7:20pm and we had pizza. We started back into the room at 8pm, washing parts of the wall, and door jams, etc. Then I got my ds Mike on a ladder taping the ceiling, her dd (7 or 8 years old?) painting a segment of one wall orange (which she ended up doing completely after we finished taping it!), and my friend painting another wall blue. I worked on taping the lower areas. Then my friend did some taping and I did some painting of the "jam" (molding?) around the drawers (that blue is going to take 3 coats). The blue for the wall will take at least two coats, maybe three in some spots only; the orange is covering better and 2 coats should be enough, but will spot paint as needed... I left between 10:45 and 11pm and had to run home, pick up the DVDs that dh Glenn forgot to give back to the library, so Mike & I got home for the night about 11:45pm.

(Why I'm on here - I had to take my night time meds and there are about 8 of them and I need to take my time, since it takes a full 12 oz glass of water to get them down! LOL)

We've got 3 walls almost completely painted (the main areas, not at the baseboard or the ceiling - will still need to remove tape and paint the detail work).

The East & West walls are blue. The East wall has the entry door in it. The door jam (molding? around the door) will be gray. The West wall has a fairly large window in it. It will also have his bed from the corner for a good portion of the wall. The window sill will be gray (no molding around the window).

The ceiling (even the angled ones) will remain the cream color they already are. The baseboards will either remain cream also, or they may be painted gray. I think we're leaning on leaving them cream.

The opposite The North and South walls are orange. One wall (north wall) is really a "half wall" as the upper part of it is the ceiling (angled roof line), so it's not a FULL ORANGE wall. There is no molding (other than baseboard) on this wall. The south wall is broken up quite a bit with a closet door, built-in drawers, and then another closet door -- so it's not a "FULL ORANGE" wall either. It also has a bit of an angled ceiling, just not as much as the opposite wall. The built-in drawers are gray, the molding around the drawers and around the doors will be blue.

The "biggest" wall (most unbroken up with anything/north wall) is the north wall and it has the large angled ceiling. I'm going to paint a design with interlocking rectangles & squares in a "sort of" diamond pattern on it, centered and about 6' in length.

On the opposite wall (south wall) has a built-in/recessed shelf above the built-in drawers. On the wall of it, I will do a smaller design mirroring the interlocking rectangles and squares on it.

These two designs will be in all three colors: blue, orange, and gray, using the semi-gloss enamel that we're using as the molding/door jams/accents. The "rectangles" & "squares" will not be colored in solid, but like frames interlocking. I think I'm going to be using the painter's tape to work on this... I'm still in design mode for it, but I think it will tie the colors and the room together.

The sides and back of the built in shelf will remain cream as well as the sides and "ceiling" of the window - the window's sill's architecture details and the flat/horizontal surface will be what is painted gray.

I think we are easily half way thru. Only have one wall to touch with paint (it has nothing on it yet, but the taping). The other three walls just need 2nd coats or touch-ups, along with the detail work at the baseboards and the ceiling line. And then the design needs to be done... I suspect I'll do the design last, while Lisa is busy dusting shelves and books, night table, etc. and things get moved back into the room.

It's possible we will be done tomorrow... I'm shooting for that, cause there's a possibility that she & her dd can do something with her dh on Friday. I'm hoping I can facilitate that... we'll see....

Edited to add:

Oh, and although my jaw is a bit sore, I'm MUCH improved from last night and yesterday's dentist visit!