Bathroom White

I don't know how you handle stress, but I paint things.
Not paintings, but things--under the stairs, the insides of closets, basement walls, bathrooms--things that rarely get painted and usually need it.

This is my recessive Romanian side (the more dominant Irish side just makes jokes and drinks when stressed).

All year long, the Romanian Aunties scrubbed the paint off of everything so that they could repaint in the Spring. Often with those little Slavic patterns of dots and dashes. I tried dots and dashes, but leaning toward instant gratification I am more of a stamp-it, sticker freak instead of the more traditional Romanian Morse code for I hate my life today.

In the past, to lift my spirits, I purchased inappropriate colors that look fabulous on a 2X2 swatch and not so fabulous on an entire wall. That was how painting inside closets and under stairways got started. I'm over that. Now I buy Dutch Boy soft white because I like the little Dutch Boy and really good brushes so that I can paint anywhere anytime and perk myself up with my sticker accessories.

Today I painted the tired old vinyl bathroom floor. Yes, of course you can, and even if you can't just keep painting it if it wears. It lasts a good year and by then I need to paint something again anyway.

Have you been sticker shopping lately? A product of the 10 small red stars equal 1 big gold star generation, a sticker is the ultimate reward for the child in me and stickers are wonderful these days.

To my now soft white vinyl floor with the 1986 2x2 embossed faux tile pattern I have centered golden opalescent translucent geckos and red dragonflies in an alternating pattern. I also have pastel elephants and ladybugs and frogs but haven't decided how these will fit into my motif.

Fortunately, I am rarely motif constrained and will stick them wherever I please. After I have the whole design thing established and stickered down I will fast-dry urethane over the top and life will be good, or at least the kids can use the bathroom again.

Trust me on this one, nothing smothers trouble like a nice coat of white paint...and a shimmering opalescent gecko.