It was bound to happen. Yesterday the kids spent some time coloring. We always try to make sure that all the crayons are picked up after a coloring session and moved to an appropriately high shelf out of the reach of little fingers. Apparently yesterday I missed 2 crayons. And in a fit of artful enthusiasm, my two little artists made giant swirls and lines up and down both sides of the walls up the stairway.
I was very calm and am pretty proud of myself that I didn’t lose my cool when I discovered it. They did get a short lecture and time out. Then they had to help me clean it up. And when Mr. Brown got home from work, Allison had to tell him what they had done and apologize.
How did the cleaning go… not so great. They tried to help, and that was the point. But the problem is that the paint on those walls is flat. As flat as flat paint comes. We have not yet got around to painting that area of the house and neither did the previous owners before us. So the walls are builder-finish flat white paint. Not an easy thing to clean. I managed to get some off with my Magic Eraser but it wasn’t long before my last one was gone (I only had one left in the house). I had heard that using a good old fashioned pink eraser would work. And it might on regular paint but this stuff is so dull that it just smeared the crayon around.
And so this week I will be buying more Magic Erasers and spend my evenings sitting on the stairs. I’ll also be calling the painters for a quote on painting the rooms. I’m not expecting it to be cheap. The problem is that our stairway walls are connected to both the downstairs living room and the upstairs hallway. There’s no good way to break up the color. All the area have to be the same.
Now to think of color ideas.
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That's a bummer.
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