It's a gender reveal!

Today was the day to primer, paint and seal. It all got done.

First up was preparing my kill room, er, I mean laying out the plastic drop cloth to keep paint off the tile walls and floor. I have used these many times, and I have invariably gotten paint on the floor. Invariably. But not today.

I had lots of primer left over from the last project Amie, our handy person, did. Or so I thought. Just like yesterday, I ran out ⅔ of the way through and went over to the local hardware store where she'd bought it. I needed Killz 2 to match. Check out their shelves:

See that gap on the top shelf between Killz and Killz 3? Yeah, that just seems to be my luck. I upgraded to Killz 3 for the remainder of the project. But I needed to be at the hardware store anyway, to pick up the real paint. Lil and I did some targeted texting in the store, and I came away with a quart of "Summer Shower."

Behold the bathroom in its premiered glory, briefly all white:

Except for the blue painter's tape of course. When I opened the Summer Shower, it was so pale I literally thought they'd screwed up and just given me a blank white can. They had not. I put some on the walls and discovered I wasn't painting a bathroom, I was performing a gender reveal (and it turns out that Sasha is a boy!):

You may notice that, in addition to painting, the corners where the walls were tiled have also been caulked (the floor meets wall seam has also been done), which makes a pretty big difference in making the room look complete. Tomorrow, the topics will also get caulked (tonight I want the paint to dry). Here's a close-up of the corner:

No one will mistake this for work by a professional, but for an amateur, they might say, "hey, that doesn't look half bad!" The overhead shot below gives a sense of completion.

Tomorrow, I tackle the toilet. And hopefully the sink, but toilet comes first. I need a water feed hose, I just learned today when going over the instructions. And also, the register I bought is literally ⅛ or ¼ inch too big for the wall opening, so I've ordered a new one which I hope will have a wide enough border to fit. I ordered from Amazon because I'm sick of Home Depot.

Till tomorrow!


PS> I forgot to mention that while out for a run on this insanely hot morning (I went early, and it hit 80° by the time I was done), I was crossing at John and Mattis when I saw a woman in an SUV sitting and merrily texting away at the green light with her two kids in the back. Eventually a driver honked (really unusual here in the Midwest), and a couple people went around (most did what people do in rural Illinois, which was they sat quietly behind her through the entire light). And indeed, it was the whole light. She never noticed being passed, she never noticed the light. I ran on and at the intersection of John and Russell, right next to Westview Elementary, I watched a different young woman (also in an SUV -- draw your own conclusions, because 2 is not an adequate data set), texting away, go right through the four-way stop without slowing down at all -- or ever looking up. Fortunately, no kids or anyone else in the crosswalk. Put the phone down when you drive, please and just don't pick it up again until you've parked.