Getting it in Gear

This weekend is officially the guest room painting weekend.  You know how I know?  Because yesterday I washed the walls and filled holes (I am not very good at using spackle, by the way), today I taped off all of the windows, baseboards, molding, and doorjamb, and then I sanded the set spackle and the peeling paint patches.  All of this in preparation for my mother-in-law's visit tomorrow, at which time we're breaking out the 2 gallons of Hollingswoth Green and getting this thing DONE.

  

See?  I bought non-returnable paint!

I'm sure the previous owners of this home were very nice people, but they were not very good painters.  Not that I'm a professional, but even I know you're supposed to repaint the trim after you paint the room.  They didn't, so there is a considerable percentage of white trim that is pink.  Ergh.

 See the top of the trim here?  It's not supposed to be pink.
However, we were going to repaint it anyway...

The giant patches of paint that peeled off when I removed the "removable" decals have been sanded to smooth the edges.  Photo below shows before sanding.

 I've also finally accurately captured photographically just how pink this room really is. 

 This?  This is wicked pissah pink, yo.
It's so pink even the white trim looks pink in this photo.

In related news, my neck hurts from craning my head back to tape crown molding.  Mmm, naproxen, how I love thee.

And tomorrow?  Tomorrow, we PAINT!