Huda and her Glitterland

To do... To do... To do to do to do to do to doooooo.... <------ read that in pink panthers tune :P
yeahhh... that's his to-do list and mine is as long as his but not that melodious, in fact its full of "
damn it!" "oh my thumb!" "why the hell i left it open" kinda stuff... Yup! Because its been two days I've started my room makeover B) "ROOM MAKEOVER" such an eye pleasing word :') but not that pleasing when you're a DIYer, until you don't reach the end where you sit calmly nibbling a chocolate and look at your little heaven :') that feeling... PRICELESS...!!!
Now you'd see so many things i'll do in my room that already have tutorials on internet BUT i still decided to go step by step because seeing something on internet, that most DIYers have bought from ebay, and then searching for the same product in kuwait is what drives me crazy. this was also one of the main reason i started blogging, to help other ladies like me to get what they want, also mentioning the places and prices.
Lets take a look at my current room that i hate from the depth of my heart...

wall 1. i love my furniture, my style has always been classic and vintage and thats not changing in near future :)

Do you see that AC... HATE IT MORE THAN THE WHOLE ROOM... Its a curse that everyone living in an old building in Kuwait would face... and even if you replace it with a split unit... the closed box would haunt you forever :'( but worry not as long as i face this problem i'll help you hide this hideous monster in a pretty manner :)

That brown curtain was here already as this apartment was owned by my sister in law before me. As i only like brown in a form of chocolate nothing else stands a chance.... dear curtain... your time to leave is coming closer :*

wall 2. my biggest nightmare... reason? look at the next picture.

oh and don't mind the carton... its there for a reason.

yes... welcome to my sequence of nightmares.

a. the wall from that corner leaked for months because that leakage was from the pipe line of the apartment above and the care taker of the building is too damn lazy. Now that pipe line was fixed i can finally start repairing it.

b. its a nightmare of every brown person... hangers behind door... EEEKHHHH... who on earth did that first???

c. Because of that leakage the door frame got soaked and expanded and the door is now cursed to stay that much open forever... i tried closing it once and the result... i am showing you next.

i got stuck in here and hubby was luckily out... he literally had to break the door to open it :/

now instead of replacing with a new one i'll build a sliding door to the outside of the room... YES.. IT IS POSSIBLE :)

i used to stare at it till i fell asleep then dream about fixing it, for the rest of the night.

Peeled paint and mould... what could be more horrible than this?

the ceiling wasn't spared either :'(

that fan's gonna get new wings... YUP! in a form of covers :)

the ceiling is getting an overall newlook. you'll have to wait for it till i post the tutorial.

the only baby i love in this room :')

Now that we've come to an end of all those horrible sights lets get to work and start changing it into something wonderful... this post is basically more of a trouble shooter than creative because for now i am only doing a tutorial on "HOW TO GET RID OF MOULDS AND PEELED PAINT FROM WALL, AND PREPARING IT FOR PAINTING."

DUUUUFIXXXX... this thing is appearing to me as a super hero at the moment :D

Anyway, its a crackfiller, you can get it on any paint shop, and with it stands a proud knife, the character that helps super hero in every task :p

(Cost: filler 1.25 kd , knife: 0.5 kd)

Using the knife i stripped all the paint and during that process i found that the plaster crown has been weaken so bad that it broke with a light hit of knife's edge... yeahhh.. problems, just like beauty, come in all shapes and sizes :/

My first "Damn it" moment!

All cleaned. The cement peeping through now..

Next i mixed the filler in a plastic container and kept it nice and thick. Forgot to take its picture :/ but you have to keep the texture thick and smooth it out with constant mixing.

i made a mistake here. After stripping off the paint sand the wall using sand paper to smooth out the areas where your knife does'nt reach... like the curve in crown... i did'nt do it at first and the paint particles were destroying the filler's texture.

SAND BEFORE FILLING.

The way of application is the same as you apply butter on bread, in a Sweeping motion, leaving a thin layer of mixture where the paint is stripped and pushing in carefully a generous amount of filler where you have holes and cracks.

I let it dry for a day and next day sanded the wall, and made a thinner mixture of filler this time. Used it to neat the messy and unleveled areas, and re touched as required.