Sunday, March 16, 2008

The Painting Has Begun

One room down, how many to go? (Too many!) Brian finished up repainting the kitchen over the weekend. He did it all himself. I'm sure I will have lots of painting opportunities myself in the next week or so.

Here he is hard at work putting on the second coat:


And this is after we put the curtains back up (same curtains we had before with the yellow walls, but hopefully they still work okay with this color):


The color is officially called "Cottonwood" and is a beige color, although for some reason it almost looks a little grayish to me in the kitchen. It's definitely different not having our bright yellow kitchen anymore, but I think it looks nice. At least it's missing all the fingerprints and marks. We only re-hung a few things back up on the wall, as will be the case in the rest of the house.

After getting some bids from painters, we realized we're saving a ton of money by doing the painting ourselves, but it also takes a lot longer too! Hopefully we can get a lot accomplished this week, although with all the kids home for Spring Break (and they all want to "help" paint), it will be interesting!

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