The Guest Room

So, it may not look like it from the pictures - but our guest room has light blue striped wallpaper. Why anyone still uses wallpaper is beyond me, but I learned my lesson the last time I took down wallpaper (and found red walls underneath) and so this time around I am just going to paint white over this wallpaper.

Here are some pictures of it on a normal day just so you can get an idea of what it looks like...

Now here are some pictures of the room prepped and ready for painting....

Here is where I got started with the painting... the closet doors are almost finished now

That's all Ive got for now - I have one layer of paint on the whole room and I plan to do another coat but I had to stop for a week because I got injured....opening a can of paint.

This is the second time Ive had a bad experience opening a can of paint - I don't understand why I cant do it, but every time I try I get really hurt. The first time I tried I just got really frustrated and was peeling back all the edges and my hands started bleeding and I nearly had a mental breakdown.

Then this most recent time I was trying to open the can with a screwdriver like Ron showed me and I was prying at part of the can when my hand slipped and hit the can and the sharp edge cut my middle finger and took off a chunk of my thumb! It hurt so bad I almost passed out! My hand was bleeding alot and I couldnt even look at it without almost throwing up. So, now its been almost a week of not having use of my right hand thumb - which I never realised, but I use this thumb alot!

So the moral of the story is - I am never opening (trying to open) a can of paint again.

PS - My thumb is doing a lot better now :)