life in a tiny apartment.

Tip #102: Buy a quart of white paint. See what you can’t cover with it.

Over the weekend, James and I tackled bébé’s closet—er, bedroom…er, changing area—oh, let’s just call it the baby’s space. It’s going to be a squatters kind of situation over here. Each of us just trying to stake out a little corner to call our own. But this post isn’t about the (lack of) space, it’s about the sheer joy of opening a can of white paint and seeing what you can do with it. The Wite-Out pen of adulthood.

Last week we bought a quart of white paint and over the weekend we painted:

• a dresser
• the inside of a door frame
• two picture frames
• the underbelly of our bathroom sink
• AND the ghastly silver heat pipe in the bathroom

And there’s still some bisque .01 to spare!

And everything looks so much better.

So the moral of the story is, once again, to just tackle the little projects. Not the big ones. Not the ones that will have you searching your pockets for extra pennies and wondering how you got yourself into this mess in the first place.

That weird gap between the baseboard and the floor? Figure out a way to fill it. The blob of grout you’ve been meaning to scrape off the tile floor? Razor that sucker. The tile that sticks to your foot in the bathroom and comes clean out of its hole? Haul out the craft glue and hope for the best. But mostly, buy a quart of white paint and do some patch work.

Nobody solves a problem like white paint, trust me on this one.

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More on painting a tiny apartment, here.

Tiny apartment survival tips #1 – 101, right here.

{Psst: If you’re curious about VOCs in paint, my colleague Meredith gives some deets right here}.