Get the painting done...

What an epic week of painting and it is going so well! A full seven days of painting walls and then it will be on to trim and doors. Got to get rid of those ugly brown doors! After the ceiling fiasco of last week this week has been smooth sailing. The colours are awesome if I do say so myself. I chose Behr 'paint and primer in one' paints, with stain blocker built right in, you can't even notice the nicotine or smoke smell anymore. I love that paint, two coats is all that is needed, it goes on very smooth and doesn't have a super stinky odour like some paints do, although I would still recommend opening a window when painting.


I haven't been solo on this busy week either, I have a huge thank-you to go out for Grandpa and Jenn. Oh and an even bigger thanks to Grandma whom has been looking after Gavin and Emily. And then there is Skippy, he's just special ;)

My Skippy the Wonder Dog

The house is starting to look more like a home again, after the past few weeks of drywall dust, wall paper stripping, filling holes etc, it is nice to get that paint on. But man, I am a little over painting.

Here are some of the colours we chose:

 Emily's room: Fox Glove by Behr

 Gavin's room: Green Leaf by Sico

Kitchen/Family Room/Living Room, most of the house: Edgecomb Gray by Benjamin Moore

Laundry Room/Main Bath: Wedgewood Gray by Benjamin Moore

Living Room Accent: Mexican Tiles by Rona Collection

Oh and Jeff started laying floor last night, yeah!

I also had a nice surprise when I showed up to the house on Wednesday evening. We have a nice little iron fence that goes around the front garden beds, and then up onto the front porch and it was looking a little worse for wear, really needing a touch of paint, it was on the to do list, but waaaaay far down on the bottom. Well I noticed that someone had painted it for us, I instantly thought perhaps it was Jeff, but then thought 'hells no!', Jeff has way more stuff to do inside, like laying floor and finishing up his TV shelf/nook thing in the family room.

Our TV shelf/nook, not quite done yet.

Who could it have been then? Grandpa of course, master of completing those mystery jobs and showing up with needed things that are on the list like building gates to keep children and wonder dogs in yards, washing walls, running stuff to the dump, and reminding his son, Jeff, that when laying floor you need to remember to cut out a hole for the heat register!

Look at that shiny new painted railing!

So slowly but surely we are making progress, tomorrow is appliance delivery day, cant wait, going to have lots of great images to share. Possibly the last day of painting walls too, really can't wait for that one either.