Day 1, a new day, a new face.

Today my mom and I started renovating my brother's room, a long over-due project. Now this room has a history, the people that owned it before us used it as an aviary. When we moved into this house I couldn't help but to yell ''SHOTEE !" for the room but to no avail, and my sister claimed it.

When my sister moved out, "SHOTEE !" but to no avail, my brother claimed it.

Now under my brother's care this almost-there-working room fell into disrepair, mould prospered and marijuana fumes embedded. Garbage piled up and the sunshine died. My brother's room became disgusting, he was way too lazy to do anything in the way of keeping it clean. Now my brother's turned 18 and has dropped out of school and is no longer living w/ us... semi-forcfully.

So today my mother and I began renovating in anticipation of the exchange students arriving next month. We piled all of his stuff that he's left in the middle of the room so we could begin to paint, although we had to sort through all his crap... trying to figure out what was garbage and what was not.

We also went to Home Hardware and picked out paint colors, and bought primer. Blue, purple and white. It's going to be great. And maybe one day it will be my room =]

Paintin' away, gotta love paint fasion. I primered that entire room by myself, pree proud.

oh.. btw ; paint thinner does a real number on your pores.

Aaah, our lovely shop vac Deborah. Now don't diss Deborah, she's pretty great. W/out her this project of renovation would be almost impossible. She's my right-hand gal.

She sucks, she blows,

She gets laid in closets

She only gets used in dirty places

and most importantly....

she doesn't care that I'm dirty, it give her something to do ;)

All of my brother's crap piled in the center, that's what happens when you move out and leave your stuff.

So now we all know how my brother really broke his hand.

Why couldn't you have punched something that didn't matter ... jerk ?

No, he's not really an artist but we do have a projector that makes tracing pretty easy. It's a shame this dragon's gotta go... you can still see it a bit through the primer but after tomorrow's second coat... it'll be gone.

So my back hurts, and my arms are pretty tired but day 1 has gone well. Another coat of primer then it's on to the real paint ! More pictures to come !!

I'm surprised sore I am... I can't imagine how I'll be after we install the hardwood floor...