Painting Project

So it's taken me forever to update my blog because I wanted to be done with my painting project beforehand so I could show you the beautiful finished pictures of it.  You know, because infertility is kind of depressing and I like to have happier things on my blog.

SO, yeah the painting... It's kind of still NOT done.  BUT, most of it is, so I'll show you some pictures of the stuff that's done and the stuff that's not done.  Also you'll get to see some fun pictures of me and my sis, Kate painting together. (By the way, Kate is awesome!  She stayed at my house and painted for three whole days and only was paid with my cooking.)

Upstairs hall-ish area where we started.

The actual painting ended up taking 4 days.  We started on Tuesday by going to the grocery store to get groceries for the week and then to Home Depot to pick up paint.  I had intended on starting and finishing EVERYTHING on that day (riiight), but by the time we finished all of my errands, it was 5:30pm.  When we got home, we decided to just make a yummy dinner that my sister Bekah cooks and then just watch TV.  We didn't actually get started on the painting at all, but I felt like the day was productive so we went to bed early and "officially" started the next day.  That day continued onto the next day, which continued onto the NEXT day...

I taped the top and then Kate painted the top.  We both almost died in the process.

I seriously had a blast painting with my little sis!  I hope it wasn't too torturous for her, but I really enjoyed hanging out with her those four days.  We got to catch up on all of the sisterly gossip that we've missed out on the last three years that she has been living in Hawaii.  We laughed about crazy things that we did as kids and just talked about our lives and our plans for the future. 

The stairs going up and down are now all done!

The entry hall (finished) and the stairs that go down into the basement (not finished).

Kate needed to go home on Friday to do some stuff related to becoming gainfully employed, so I released her from her servitude.  I came home and started finishing up the area that we had started in the basement.  I had gotten most of it done when Doug got back from work and wanted to talk and have dinner.  So, thinking that I would just get right back to it after making dinner, I put the paint brush and roller down, and made dinner.  The second my butt hit the couch, I knew I wasn't going to finish.  So this is how it still looks two weeks later.  I'm not sure when I'll get the motivation to finish.

Oh YES, and this here is the tape ball we made.  That's $25 worth of tape right there.  This picture also coincidentally kind of shows (in a blurry way) all of the different color paints that I've done so far in my house.  There's still A LOT more to do, but that's what teacher summers are for, right?

We Painted

Doug and I finally got around to painting his office on Memorial Day weekend.  We went with a deep blue color.  I like how it looks, but we're definitely going to need more light in the room.  It looks great during the day when the blinds are open and tons of sun is shining in.  When its night time, it can seem like a black hole.  I'm happy with the deep color, but I think this is the last deep color we will paint with.  It took four coats for the blue and then I screwed it all up by waiting too long to take the tape off.  It peeled a little at the top.  I told Doug that this means we need to put in crown moldings because I'm not repainting...

Here are some pictures.  We still are looking for a good desk to go in Doug's office.  I want to get an L-shaped desk with lots of space.  Unfortunately those can be pretty pricey so we're keeping an eye out for sales.

I haven't taken a picture of the room yet without the tape on, but here is what it basically looks like.

 

Snowmageddon 2.0

Doug and I headed over to Home Depot to get some paint for our dining room on Wednesday the 10th. After several days snowed inside with nothing to do, I finally decided on a color for the dining room. My friend Cassie recommended an application on Sherwin William's website. It helped tons! We bought two buckets of RED Behr paint with the primer already included.

The icicles at my parents house were huge! This isn't even the biggest one, it was the only 

one that I could reach with all of the snow on the back deck!

 We knew that the second part of the storm was coming, but we were hoping to make it back home in time. We went to go pick up the paint and when we left the store the roads were completely covered and slick. Luckily, my parents only live about a mile away from that Home Depot, so we went to their house instead of trying to brave the roads all the way home. It was nice to have a change of scenery after being snowed in at our house for several days with only each other for entertainment, but we were ready to get home and sleep in our own bed after a couple days.

We headed back home Friday morning and couldn't even make it into our garage with the additional accumulation and snow drifts. After about an hour of shoveling snow and a slight detour of making an igloo, we finally made it inside.

Our igloo! Doug and I are really just big kids!

Once we got inside, we got right to work painting the dining room. Red paint is REALLY hard to work with it, but I really liked the color and Doug said yes, so we went for it.

Here are some pictures of us painting...

  

The room after the first coat of paint.
 

Doug and I were both pretty skeptical after the first coat of red paint. It didn't really look that good and it was discouraging after all the work that we had put into it. We had bought plenty of paint, so we did a second coat... and third the next day to make sure that the walls would have a solid, even coverage.

Sherwin Williams projected results:

Actual Results:

Note: We didn't actually use the Sherwin Williams paint that I put on the wall 

in the Visualizer, but I picked one that looked close at Home Depot.

I like it. I think it totally transforms the room! I want to paint Doug's office across the entry hall a dark blue (I think) during my upcoming spring break. We'll see if he agrees to the color.