Fun with Paints!

You don't have to be an artist or even have a keen eye to enjoy the painting phase of house renovation. This is when it all comes together. Things start to make (some) sense and the wretched pile of "malba" starts to look like a house ( not home yet, but a house never the less).
I have been scanning websites, design blogs and chewing the ears of my good friend whose sense of aesthetic and colour I trust ( Thank you !Thank you O' patient one!) to come up with a palette I like.
We found a good "putaiwala" i.e painter. He and his team have been scraping away the old paint from the walls. It is coming off in sheets especially in this one place where there is old dampness that looks like a she-ogre sitting astride two walls, baring her ugly teeth in a horrid yellowey grin. It is a remnant and reminder of the time the bathroom of our upstairs neighbors had leaked and our couldn't-care-less tenants forgot to mention it to us. SO the damsel in dampness needs to go! After the walls are smooth like"Hema Malini's gaals", as Laluji would say, will come a layer of primer.
This whole process will take a few days and then the fun with colors begins.