Painting is DONE!

Well, three weekends later and all the painting is done. Thank goodness! I mean, they'll still be touch ups later....but all of the yucky, all day painting is done. We went with color everywhere. I'm not a fan of white walls, nor was I going to paint the whole house one color. Right now, we're pleased with how everything turned out. I think it'll look even nicer once the trim is up. Trim starts tomorrow. Followed by the tile guy, final electric, final plumbing and the rest of the flooring. The end is in sight! Woohoo!

It was a gloomy, rainy day so the kitchen looks darker than it is...there are two pantries to the right that you can't see in this photo:

So you can get an idea of the flow of the floorplan...this is standing in the laundry room, looking through the kitchen to the great room....we love open floorplans!



The next two are the Great Room...same paint color as the kitchen (it looks different in every photo):

Dining Room (two windows to the right)....I had to take this at an odd angle to show the paint color correctly...it was showing up too dark:

One of the guest rooms....it's not that dark of a purple, bad lighting again:

Other guest room, also not this dark:

Master Bedroom:

Master Bath...color is "Squirrel" :)..

And finally the master walk-in closet....

The only thing missing is the laundry room. It's the same color as the walk-in closet above. There was just too many things in there to take a nice photo. So the next set of photos will have the laundry room.

And last but not least....our little painting helper, Cooper:

Who was sleeping when he wasn't getting into the paint:

Painting begins...

Ah, the joys of painting an entire house. It seems a lot bigger when you have to paint every square inch....THREE times! I think Joe said there was 6500 sq ft of walls and ceilings (the whole house is only 2200 sq ft of living space). We sprayed and then back rolled the primer. That took about 7 or 8 hours. Then we started the ceilings that night with the first coat of paint. The next day, we finished the first coat on the ceilings and went back for the second coat. And finally, by Sunday afternoon....we started the color on the walls. That's the fun part....well, ok, maybe not "fun"...but interesting! We got a first coat on the laundry room and the walk-in closet. They're two of the smaller rooms (walk-in - 9x10 ft; laundry- 8x10 ft) so it was a good place to start. Now onto the photos.... :)

Part of the Great Room:




Kitchen:



Master Bedroom (ask Joe how much fun it is to paint vaulted ceilings!):





Master Walk-In Closet:




Sorry for the darkness of the photos. It was pretty late before I had a chance to grab the camera and take some photos. The color in the walk-in closet is actually a grayish blue-green, if that makes sense. The paint was still wet when I took the photo (and that's only one coat).

We'll finish painting this weekend. So LOTS of photos after this weekend!