I've learned a valuable lesson in the last week. When you are painting with a shellac based primer and your head is stuck inside of the cabinet you are priming, don't take a deep breath through your mouth. You'll thank me for my pearls of wisdom someday.
Aside from that the house is almost completely primed. At least with the first coat of primer. We are busting out the paint gun tonight so I'm pretty pumped about that. We are spraying the second coat of primer on the the trim, doors, and cabinets. We had to roll the first coat because it was a shellac based primer, but we're using a water based for the second coat so it's on like Donkey Kong! This should go so much faster. Hopefully we'll be painting with actual colors by the end of the week. Sarah helped me pick out most of our colors, so we're pretty set for most of the rooms.
Living Areas- Ben Moore Stonington Gray
Bedroom- Ben Moore Seattle Mist
Master Bath- Sherwin Williams Passive
Guest Room- Either Sherwin Williams Otter or Sea Salt
Next step after painting is floors. The plan right now is to get the main areas completely painted, such as the 2 living rooms, kitchen, and dining room, so that Brad can start on floors while I finish up painting in the other rooms.
It seems so simple when I write it, but the whole process takes so long. The goal was originally to be in the house by the beginning of December, but that doesn't seem likely right now. *Sigh* This also means that even though we were thinking we'd avoid having the new pup in the old house, that doesn't seem likely either. So now we have a giant dog crate sitting in our bedroom and we still haven't packed a single thing. Most days the current house looks like a disaster relief zone. Lucky for me, the cleaning lady comes today.
Oh, and I promise to have some updated pictures soon.
