Wow, that's some pink

It turns out Yolo Sprout 06 is a very salmon-y pink. It's something else. Luckily Evelyn seems to like it, and she certainly liked helping me paint the first half of her room this Sunday. This gives you a sense of the room before and also a sense of just how orange the pink is, in contrast to her hot pink curtain, which clashes terribly and is going to have to go.



Evelyn painted some swathes of the walls with a 2-inch brush while I worked on the edges. She also helped put blue tape down along the baseboards. Then later she helped with rollering and did most of the lower parts of the wall by herself. She was pretty careful and definitely energetic!



It's really salmon. I would never in a million years want this in my bedroom, but she likes it and I'm pitching it her to as more sophisticated than bubble-gum pink would be, that it will be appropriate even as she gets older. We'll see if her sheets clash horribly - the summer ones, which are white with pink polka dots, are okay, and if her red flannel ones are terrible she can switch with Peter, whose flannels are sort of teal blue. I'm going to wait a little while to pitch the idea of new curtains, but I would like something long (for more privacy) and probably white.

Peter asked several times when a can of blue paint was going to come in the mail for him. I am not really ready to go there yet - maybe for his 4th birthday. The other down side of this painting work was being face-to-face with the really poor plasterwork and older paint jobs in Evelyn's room. Paint is peeling like crazy on the window trim, but properly redoing all the trim work in the bedroom would be a huge amount of work (much of the trim in the house was painted latex over oil without priming.) Not this year.