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Nest With Me Part One: Painting The Nursery and Prepping for Baby #2
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Feb 28, 2025
Nest With Me Part One: Painting The Nursery and Prepping for Baby #2
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hello you guys and welcome back to my
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channel if you are new here my name is
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heaven and I am a stay-at-home mom wife
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and Homemaker I have a 4-year-old
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toddler boy and I am currently pregnant
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with baby number two we are expecting
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our baby girl in July so today I decided
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we're going to go ahead and get into a
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little bit of nesting we're going to be
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transforming our previous home school
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room into a nursery for when the baby
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comes and that's going to be a lot of
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work so thought it would be fun to take
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you guys along with me so that if you
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have any upcoming home projects we can
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maybe tackle them together or this will
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give you an idea of you know how to do
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it it doesn't really have to be that
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difficult even if you're not a pro you
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can still do it and get it done so this
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is going to be part one of our Nursery
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transformation I was very sad to see our
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Homeschool Room go but we have already
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been thriving in our new hes School
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location so I'm not too too sad about it
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so to get started I am just taking
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things off of the wall I've already
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began moving all of the furniture and
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transitioning it to our new home school
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location but now I just have little Noah
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helping me get some things off the wall
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he asked to do it I did not make him do
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it I promise but we are just taking down
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some of the shelving units and then I'm
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also attempting here to get the face
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plates for the outlets off of the wall
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um this was definitely a headache
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because that had been painted over so
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the paint was kind of like covering the
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grooves on where I needed to put the
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drill and the screwdriver it had
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actually been painted over like a few
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times not just one so even after I got
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the screw out of the outlet I still had
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to kind of like go around the outlet
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with the corner of like this little
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paint scraper or whatever you call this
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tool and just to and get the face plate
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off the wall and once I did it it
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actually damaged the wall a little bit
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you know just because of how long it had
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been on there and how old the paint was
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so that was definitely a headache but
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you know I got it off and once I got it
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off I actually had to move on and do the
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exact same thing to another you know
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face plate so of course I'm not going to
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be replacing this outlet cover I am just
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going to remove it and then put another
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one on here we have plenty in the
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basement that are brand new that does
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not have orange paint covering all over
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it if you two are tackling a home
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project with me or you have something
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coming up I would love for you to
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comment below and let me know what new
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home projects you have coming up or what
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new paint jobs or room transformation
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you're currently working on because I
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know we are now entering into the spring
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season so for me you know that's
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typically when I'm doing some home
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updates and if you are the same then
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definitely let me know I would love to
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hear about it so after patiently taking
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my time to get those outlet covers off
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the wall I am now getting all of the
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screws out of the walls to go ahead and
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like spackle over them with a little bit
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of spackle or I think I use like some
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sort of quick set compound whatever my
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husband had in the in the garage here's
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what I had and again I'm no pro at this
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I'm literally just like throwing it on
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there over the hole just making sure I
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get it inside of the hole so that
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there's no hole in the wall and then
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afterward I'll go back and sand it down
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like it does not have to be pretty as
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long as it gets inside the hole and
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feels the hole I'll be just fine and I
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made this a little bit thin so I made it
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a little bit harder for myself so make
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sure if you are doing something like
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this don't make it too hard for yourself
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and make it too thin so once that was
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done I went ahead and started taping off
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whatever I didn't want to paint which
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really wasn't much because I kind of
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needed to paint this whole room you guys
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down to the closet the baseboards the
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door shms everything needed a fresh coat
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of paint and even this here vent that
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I'm taping off needs a new Fresh coat of
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paint but I need to clean it before I do
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that so taping alongside the vent
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because I need to clean it before I can
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paint over it um and I'm actually just
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going to probably end up replacing it I
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haven't decided yet and then also taping
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the window seals down so I don't get any
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paint on the window Windows now I
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actually started this sometime in
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February so when I filmed this video
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originally I was about 18 weeks pregnant
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and now that I'm doing the voice over
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for it I am currently just about 22
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weeks pregnant so I do have like a small
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baby bump like protruding out of the
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shirt
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embarrassingly but um 18 weeks was a
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pretty good time for me to be doing this
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because I know for a fact I'm not going
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to be wanting to do this type of stuff
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in the third trimester so if you are
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currently working on a nursery project
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or if you're pregnant or anything like
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that I highly recommend doing this in
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the second trimester because you're past
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the whole first trimester like
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uncomfortableness the nausea the super
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exhaustion and things like that you're
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also past when you know you are
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currently still in that window of being
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at risk for um like disc carage and
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things like that so just waiting until
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you're like past that stage and then
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once you get like a little bit more of
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your energy back in the second trimester
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but you're not so huge and so big that
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you don't want to move that's the
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perfect time to do any of the hard stuff
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so painting assembling any of the
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furniture all the heart stuff do it in
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the second trimester and then all of the
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not so difficult things like doing
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laundry maybe folding up um clothes
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doing all of the cute like clothing
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shopping maybe organizing the dressers
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setting up postpartum stations things
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like that are the type of things that
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you do like later not not um like
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painting and furniture assembly so yeah
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I did this at about 18 weeks so after um
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getting everything taped off I went
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ahead and started doing the trim work um
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or cutting it is what my husband calls
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it like cutting which is where you go
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around any of the hard to reach plac is
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with the paint roller so like things
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that you can't reach with the paint
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roller are what you'll want to paint
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first so I'm painting around the window
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seals around the edges of like the doors
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and the corners of the walls the bottom
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of the floors the top like along the
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ceiling because I know I'm not going to
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be able to reach those places with my
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paint roller so I did two coats of this
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and I'm using a white paint um one can I
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had like left over and then one can I
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ordered from home defa online so that's
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what I'm doing now just doing all of the
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cutting around the edges I did two coats
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so I did one coat and by the time I
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finished the entire room the section of
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the room that I originally started at
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had you know kind of dried to where I
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was able to go back and do a second coat
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of cutting so I did have the windows
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open very well ventilated so that it
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could dry while I'm doing it but also so
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that I'm not braving in any chemical
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even though I made sure I bought a low
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odor paint for the safety of the
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pregnancy and you also see I have no
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help of me he just wanted to do
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something so I let him put a little bit
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of paint on the closet door because I'm
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going to paint that as well so I did
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around all of the window sills the light
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switch covers the outlet covers the
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corners of the walls and the bottoms of
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the wall and now you see I am doing the
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top of the walls and this just makes it
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to where when you're finally painting
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it's going to go by so fast so now that
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I'm kind of just letting that dry I'm
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sanding down the areas of the wall where
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I put spackle or quick set to get the
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screw holes covered but you guys when I
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opened up this paint that I ordered
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online I'm 100% sure I ordered a pure
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white and it shipped to me in like a
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beige color like I I don't know what it
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was it was like the color of my outfit
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but it definitely wasn't white so I
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literally had to stop go to the store
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return that and get the color that I
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need and it was getting pretty late at
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night so now I'm back got the right
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color this time and I also put on a mask
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because now I know that the scent um
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like the very light paint scent is going
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to be just a little bit stronger because
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I'm painting the entire room versus just
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cutting alongside the edges so got my
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mask on got the right color paint and
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now I am painting the was so just you
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know taking my time I have like the full
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length extended pole for the paint
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roller so that it's not too hard on my
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back and this part is pretty straight
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forward not difficult at all I have no
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technique just putting paint on the
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roller and going up and down now a step
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that I skipped is sanding the entire
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walls normally when I paint a room I
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will sand the entire walls like of the
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entire room but you guys I didn't feel
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like it like I just didn't like I mean
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I'm not in the third trimester of
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pregnancy but even in the second
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trimester it's like I'm a little bit
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tired like not crippling but I'm a
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little tired so I didn't care um as long
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as you know the Ws looked cleaner they
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looked fresh and they looked
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brighter I was okay it wasn't no like
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ter terrible imperfections that I really
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really needed to sand over um this this
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was just fine so I'm just putting paint
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on the wall it is getting super late you
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guys will see that it is dark outside by
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now um it's it's pretty late so I'm just
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trying to get the job done at this point
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and I also still have like some
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furniture in the room that might have
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made it a little more difficult for me
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to really move around cuz I had to keep
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moving furniture out the way or like
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getting around it trying not to knock it
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over and things like that but like once
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you get all of the hard stuff done which
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is getting everything off the wall
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filling all the holes sanding down the
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holes and cutting around all of the trim
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work and things like that then I feel
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like the actual paint jab goes by so
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much faster so I am also doing two coats
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of this so just painting around the
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first coat with the window open so that
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can air out and look at that window look
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at how dark it is started in the evening
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cuz I got lots of other things as a Mama
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to do cooking cleaning homeschooling you
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know all that stuff so evening was the
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best time for me to start but yes two
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coats I did one coat all the way around
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gave it a little bit of time to air out
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and dry and then a second coat as well
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and then I also did the same thing for
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the closet door I'm going to show you
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guys what it looks like like the
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finished product of it once it had kind
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of dried to touch so like not fully
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dried I needed to let let it have like a
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full 24 hours to dry and then I actually
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closed the door and left the window open
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for a few days so that I could fully you
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know vent out and things like that but
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I'll show you guys what the final looks
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like after I completed all of the paints
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a fresh white coat not very bright I
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don't have any daytime light but you
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guys once I open up those curtains in
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the morning and the Sun comes through
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the reflection of the walls is perfect
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and exactly what I was going for so a
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lot brighter and a lot more clean and I
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kind of just hope you guys en enjoyed
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the very first part of this Nursery
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transformation and hope that you guys
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will join me back for part two that sums
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it up for this one and I hope that you
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guys enjoyed it thank you so much for
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watching I truly appreciate you and do
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