Once upon a time we had friends over for an evening of movies and drinks. Being the ambience suckers we are, we lit some candles in the bathroom that evening.
Apparently one of the wicks was too long on one of the candles, and late that evening it was noticed that it was creating smoke – too much smoke, it had made a smoke line going up the wall and to the ceiling of the bathroom. We didn’t realize how bad it was until the next morning.
Michael cleaned up most of the really bad stain from the wall and worked on the ceiling a bit. But you could tell there had been some smoke damage in there. Over these past few weeks we’ve both been tired and busy, neither of us having the time to clean it, until yesterday.
I got out the gloves and the bleach and went at the ceiling. It didn’t help. I used PURE bleach and it didn’t help. Dejected, I opened the cleaning supplies closet and looked for something that would help me do the job. I eyed the Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. I’ve posted about these in the past, they really do work for getting hard to remove stains off of walls. So I figured I’d try them on the smoke stains.
It took an entire eraser and about an hour of scrubbing, but it looks so much better now. You can hardly notice that there was any smoke damage unless you examine it closely and know what you’re looking for.
But the bathroom does need a new coat of paint. Michael and I both took off a week from work before Memorial Day weekend and this will be one of the projects. The bathroom is a light green color now, I’d like to just paint it off-white. And certainly go with the Perma-White Mold & Mildew-Proof paint, they clearly used nothing of the sort for the paint that’s currently in there.
And now I’m all sore from all that scrubbing. Scrubbing smoke stains off a ceiling for an hour while perched on the edge of the bathtub is not so easy on the shoulder muscles.
I cleaned the rest of the house for the rest of the afternoon and Michael did a big grocery shopping run (we hadn’t gone in 2 weeks!). While he was gone I ended my cleaning day with a long shower, then puttered around the house in my bathrobe, painted my nails and was lazy. It was wonderful.
Today is Easter. It totally snuck up on me this year, usually I have time to drool over the candy and bring out my bunny toys to decorate the mantel. None of that this year. We’re having Michael’s mother over for dinner, Michael is making a chicken. We also picked up a copy of Evil Dead 2 for later this evening, afterall, Jesus is the most famous zombie in history, and it’s his day! (Shush, I’d say this is less blasphemous than rabbits and eggs on Easter!)
I looked outside this morning and noticed my tulips had bloomed. It’s such a beautiful day out.
Oh, and Michael picked up a carrot cake from Whole Foods yesterday. Yum!