Tint it Green

I have been in the process of moving into the basement since July - when my brother came home and took his room back. So my sister moved into my old room. 

Since then I've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor in an unfinished basement with my clothes stacked not so neatly in boxes and my belongings crowded around them. 

So finally, finally, we paint the walls. A pure crisp white. 

Then the moldings - same color.

That happened aprox. 2 months ago. 

So I've been sleeping on the couch for a couple weeks - but I finally moved back into the basement. Only to return to the couch after we started with the floor! Which will soon be a tinted green. But first - we have to clean it!

Because it's the basement, the floor is concrete (which is why we can paint it). And since it  hasn't been thoroughly cleaned in years, we had to use a chemically-powdery cleaner that is harmful to our skin. So gloves were necessary to the process. 

The room is pretty big, so it took me, mom, and dad to finish it in one day. 

Dad scrubbed on the dangerous chemical stuff, while I rinsed it (after letting it sit so that it could completely penetrate the grime on the floor), and mom scrubbed all the grit and grime away.

We had to move everything from one side of the room to the other (trust me, it was HEAVY!). But we finally got all the room scrubbed! 

We had to let that sit for a the rest of the day, so that it could fully dry. But today we started painting!

You can't really tell from this picture - but I promise, the floor is tinted green! 

We gave it a second coating to make it even darker. Next we have to move everything so that we can paint the giant hole in the middle. But until then - I guess I'm sleeping on the couch. 

Oh goody.