Paint your nails, paint the walls...
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.)
Wow, I'm impressed! I've never painted before, so that would seem like a huge job to me! Thank you also for the info for the bundle being extended. I told quite a few friends about it, so maybe this will give them another chance if they didn't buy it yet.
You might not need to paint the whole wall. I just touched up almost every room in our house after 3 yrs and all but one blended beautifully, even with freshly mixed paints. The only one that didn't blend was a pink that we couldn't remember the name of so I think we picked the wrong color. I just got samples from Home Depot to do my touch up work. I'd try just doing the necessary part first and see what you think.
I figure I will try painting just that section and see what it looks like when it dries. That color was painted over a shocking neon green that was here when we bought the house, though, and I'm wondering if that's going to affect how my spot-painting looks (in other words, I think some of the neon green might be coming thru the wall as-is, and once that nail-polishy section gets another coat, it may look different than the rest of the wall does....)
Oh, man, my little guys have poured polish into some hard to clean places. You should think about some Jamberry Juniors for your girls! Non-toxic, no chance of spilling, and they come in lots of cute patterns! I can't wait until my little girl is big enough for them. 🙂
If you're painting anyway, you can use a little nail polish remover to get most of the nail polish off before painting, then it doesn't take so much paint to cover up.
Well, what you're looking at there is what was left after much nail polish remover had been applied! Apparently it has its limits when it comes to painted walls. Boo.
And carpets. Sigh. Thankfully it was the cheap wall-to-wall that is slated to be replaced in a few years, and till then can be covered up with furniture.
Oh no. My 14 year old daughter dropped her basket of nail polish Sunday morning. There was a loud bang and a "oh no" and then a "Ach!!! Help quick" Sure enough a bottle of bright pink had dropped, broken and rolled under the bed. The good news is that nail polish remover got it off the wood floor with out harming the finish -- but I made my husband remove it so that I would not be in trouble if it didn't work :-). The only thing that didn't clean up well is her bed ruffle. It is now covered in pink spots. Good luck on the touch ups.
We had an open bottle of nail polish go flying at church (at church?!?) and it got all over a piano bench and the carpet. We got some Krud Kutter from Home Depot, and it removed the stains from the carpet pretty easily.
That IS kind of an odd spot for nail polish to go flying!
How is it that you can paint a spot and not the whole wall? I have white walls and have _never_ been able to get away with spot painting. Even after just 5 years and in a dark spot, the new coat (from the same bucket) looks different.
It all depends on the paint and what's under the paint and how well the original paint covered, and also how much sunlight hits the wall.
And also, I suppose it depends upon how particular one is about color variations!
Oh, man I feel you on nail polish messes. My son has made quite a few (he used to get into mommy's stash when no one is looking), but fortunately no walls. For the walls, he decided to use finger paint, haha. Nail polish remover does great for hard surfaces and carpet, but I imagine it probably did dye the top layer (or two) of paint on your walls. I bet your girls will be more careful with it after this, though!
We have to paint our bathroom soon. I'm worried about the whole mildew thing so we're looking at getting better paint for it. Now if I could just get my wife to pick out colors! 🙂
Have you considered saying "Honey, I'm going to use this color ... unless you choose something else within the next two weeks."
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!
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.
Always listen to that inner voice Sometimes it may turn out to be the Holy Spirit.
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.
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.
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.
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!