Yellow

Sometime ago, I painted a portion of our apartment (I share an apartment with my sister) yellow. There’s this short corridor that joins my room to hers that we didn’t paint when we painted our rooms white. 

I was thinking of starting a YouTube channel and was thinking of video ideas and I thought maybe I should try diy painting - paint the corridor myself and record it. Seemed like a nice plan but I eventually regretted it.

Anyway, when I was thinking of what colour to paint it, something told me yellow would be a good idea. No it wasn’t something, it was me. I thought yellow would be a good idea. I needed some colour, I mean white is bright but I wanted another colour except for white.

I did ask my friend her thoughts about painting my corridor yellow, then she ran it by her husband and he said it’s schools that paint their walls yellow. I went ahead to paint the corridor yellow anyway, and truly, the spot looked similar to a kindergarten when I finished painting.

It came out surprisingly “not looking bad” though. After spending the whole day painting and repainting until the yellow looked good enough (I had to do about 7 or more coats because I added too much water to the yellow paint), I decided to try some “designs” on the yellow paint. How did that turn out? Your guess is as good as mine.

We had some white paint left from when we painted our rooms. I started dipping my hands in the white paint and placing my palms on the yellow paint. *Huge sigh* I didn’t stop there, I brought out an old jewelry box that also contained old SIM cards and stuff and I placed some of the old earrings and one sim card on the wet paint on the wall. 

No, I can’t explain. My only defense is that I was trying to be “creative”, and maybe eccentric. You know how eccentric can go completely off. Yeah it went off. The wall literally looked like a bad idea. I crowned my entire day of diy yellow painting with an awful looking design. 

I’ve seen videos where people say they painted their house and it was fun. Some even say it was relaxing or therapeutic. To share my own conclusions on diy painting because - it was not fun! Especially if you live in Lagos Nigeria, DIY painting isn’t that fun, therapeutic or relaxing, according to Olayemi’s findings. Please pay a painter to paint your house. 

I eventually had to reach out to a painter too. The man asked about the war going on on the wall, and I said it was a project 😌. I don’t if he believed me though. I ended up spending more too. So diy painting isn’t worth the stress and expenses if you ask me, and its definitely not for me.