Disclosure: This post is in partnership with HomeRight as part of their blogger ambassador program. All opinions are my own.
I’m in the middle of making over our downstairs half bathroom, and trust me when I say it needs it. While we can’t gut the whole thing right now and start from scratch (although I would love to!), in the meantime I am doing what I can to improve it with paint and accessories. I painted the walls and I’m in the process of painting the vanity, and I’ll show you everything very soon. For now, I knocked out painting the walls super quickly — my husband even said, “you’re finished already?”. I used the HomeRight PaintStick which exponentially cuts down on painting time. The best part is you can win one! Stay tuned for a giveaway at the end of this post.
The PaintStick is easy to use, you just clip the fill tube onto your paint can, insert it into the handle, pull up on the tube and it sucks the paint up into the handle. Then, you push the handle in as you need more paint on your roller, so you don’t have to keep bending over and dipping your roller in paint. (I used a similar tool for our living room which you can read about here.)
We started with builder beige/tan walls that looked yellowish in the light. We haven’t touched the room since we moved into the house a year and a half ago. Here is the “before” photo:
We haven’t even hung anything on the walls! I grabbed my paint stick and painted it Benjamin Moore’s Gray Owl, lightened by 50%. I wanted to go with a light color to brighten up this tiny room.
It’s hard to photograph since this room gets zero natural light, but hopefully when I’m all finished making over the room I can get a better photo. It’s already lighter and brighter.
I can’t wait to show it to you all finished in the next week or two!
HOMERIGHT PAINTSTICK GIVEAWAY!
For now, I’m so happy to share a giveaway for this HomeRight PaintStick. I know you will love it! As a busy mom, I’m all about saving time and this tool is amazing.
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This actually makes painting look fun! My workshop is in my garage and it is so dull and needs new life. This paint tool will help me make that happen! Thank you for your post.
Our master bath, guest bath and TV room are all on the list to paint…this would be such a great help…
I am redoing my mud room. That’s where I’d use it first! And then I want to redo the bathroom…
Oh my goodness, my craftroom needs redone, the office needs redone, the “master” bath (about the size of a shoe box) needs redone. I could keep going! Thank you for the chance to win!
Oh I have so many things I would use that for- starting with all the ceilings in every room – a nice fresh coat of bright white!
Such a cool painting tool! Thank you for sharing!!
This would be a HUGE time saver!! 🙂 We are painting our living and dining room from a non-desirable chocolate milk brown to a light and fresh gray!
My bedroom and bathroom immediately! Great give away. Thanks.
I’m getting ready to paint my daughters room and the upstairs hallway. So the paint stick would be great to have!
My guest bathroom needs to go from dark to light and this is exactly what I need.
We are currently looking for our new home. This would be the perfect tool to make our new home fit our color style!
This would be a perfect tool for repainting my kitchen (which is long over-due!)
I would love to paint my bathroom, kitchen and son’s bedroom! With this awesome stick, I know I could do the job in half the time! Thank you for the chance.
my kitchen
My kitchen desperately needs to be painted. I’ve been holding off since it has 10 foot ceilings. This would make it so much easier.
I’m always looking for an easier way to paint!
I would love this for my master bedroom. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
We are buying our first house and you have convinced me! I want that paint roller!!
I need to paint my kitchen, it’s just … it’s sad. I want a nice bright sunny yellow color.
I would use the paintstick on my walls in the hallway, it would give me extra reach and maybe I wouldn’t have to use a stepstool
I would start with my living room …. I have many rooms to paint.
Oh, I have so many rooms that need painting! We moved just over 2 years ago, and have only finished about a third of the repainting projects. This seems like a great tool!
I would use it to paint our kitchen and dining room. Thank you so much for the giveaway!
I need to repaint my kitchen. It needs to be refreshed!
painting my kitchen!
repainting the house we just bought! the entire level is an obnoxious grass green color
We are planning on painting the master bedroom and bath in the next couple of months
Oh geez every room in my house needs paint! I’d use it and abuse it for weeks!
I would use it to paint my living room.
I’d love to use it to repaint our bathroom. It’ needs some freshening up in there.
I would use the paint stick to paint my bedroom and my bathroom.
My living room and kitchen.. but also to help 2 of my sisters with their painting this summer. :0) What a neat item.
I have a couple of rooms that haven’t been painted since we moved in … 11 years ago. It’s time.
I would love to win this to paint our master bedroom and bathroom.
I have some doors I need to paint!
I’m going to be repainting my living room soon!
We have a whole house that needs paining since we moved.