Paint

We are making some paint progress.

Thursday's are one of Stan's days off, so yesterday, in spite of the 90+ weather, we did a little painting.

The first three pictures are of our living/dining room and the last two are still in the kitchen. The red is the same red we used in the kitchen.

Since this is mainly a large open space with just a short division wall between the kitchen and living/dining room, I want to use the same paint throughout.

The wall behind both of the tables are the same color. It is called Sand.

The ceiling and all other walls are painted a lighter shade of sand. We have a little of it on the wall and ceiling in the living/dining room.

I have to say, I absolutely love the colors and am very anxious to finish the job. The ceiling is a huge job, but maybe we can get it finished this weekend. After we finish the paint, we will be replacing all of the trim. So far, we are planning to paint it the light sand color.

Maybe I will be able to post "finished" paint pictures by Monday.

Stan"s Day off

Our walls on Wednesday night.

Thursday Morning Stan started priming. It was actually a pretty shade of gray.

By afternoon he was painting. I started helping at this point, doing some of the cutting for him

Before we took the tape and paper off. We were actually still painting the other wall.

Two walls finished and I love it!!

We still have not found the perfect color for the other walls and this weekend, I am sure we wil prime and paint the living room side of the wall with the door way in it.

We brought home a taupe, but it just was not right so went back for more color swatches tonight. We will definitely know when we have found it though:)

Stan cracked a good one while he was up on the ladder. With the straightest of straight faces he said to me, "Our taxes went up on the house." As I was blustering about how can they in this economy, he said, "Yeah, they said something about reading about all of the improvements on Face Book."

He does have a good one at times:)

Kitchen

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Stan worked super hard to get these cupboards sanded, primed and painted. I did help him with some of the paint and primer, but the dust from the sanding just chokes me up. I did have a headache all day Sunday which I attributed to the fumes. I guess that is just the cost of change:)
The pictures really do not do them any justice. Last night we went to Home Depot and bought the paint for the walls behind the cupboards.
It is the red I mentioned in the last post. We are thinking we will paint both sides of this wall red. We also bought another color (tester size) for the walls. I painted a portion of one wall, but we are thinking we do not like it. Glad we bought the tester. It was more a gold tone and we really think we want to go with a khaki. I also looked a stoves and microwaves while we were at Home Depot. This white just does not cut it next to the cream and our other black appliances:)

After the paint, which I think we will do this weekend, it is on to the trim (and a new stove) and the kitchen will be done. On the wish list is still tile for the upstairs bathrooms, paint the entire interior, all of the trim outside, and new doors. The interior doors are so thin and cheap. Upgrades are a never ending project......there is always something else to think you absolutely have to do to make it perfect. Like a brand new wooden door for the front entrance, but I do not want to push my luck too far. Might let that one sit on the back burner for a while. Actually my son in law and I have plans for that area so I will just have to save up some money before I broach the subject.

Last weeks progress in the kitchen

I am really loving it. We are planning to paint the wall behind the cupboards a deep red. The color we like this week is Claret by Martha Stewart. The other walls are still under discussion.

The progress is slow

But

Steady

This dang constant rain is a problem. We need to have the windows open for ventilation, but it is so cold. Had a few hours on Saturday that he was able to paint. He will not be able to do any more before Thursday, probably. Maybe by then it will be Summer!!!

How is it that one simple project leads to another

and another and another and..........Currently we are in the process of painting our cupboards.

When we moved the kitchen around and built new cupboards we could not get the finish to match as is evidenced by the above picture. Now just look at the miss matched colors, not the stuff piled on top. It is a remodel you know and things do get cluttered:)
Stan started by painting the insides of the cupboards. We chose a color called Gold Coast White by Behr.


Stan has gotten about 1/3 of the cupboards painted on the insides. Today, he sanded all of the doors and drawer fronts that are off. We will have to prime them next and paint them soon.

For those of you who are stressing because we are painting oak, be assured it is nothing more than builder grade material.

What is next? Paint most of the inside, new trim, new doors, paint the outside trim, sell, move.

That sounds good, sell and move. The house is really to big for two old people, ( just ask Stan)

and it is getting difficult for me to go up and down the stairs with my knees getting worse every year.

So, the plan? Sell the house, rent an apartment here in town. Stan wants to continue working so we need to stay here. Buy something in Eastern Washington. Stan can use it in the winter to go to and from the ski slopes. I can use it in the summer when I want to go to where it is warm.

Sounds like a win win, right? Wrong. I want a house. One that is finished and ready to live in.

(Granted this one was finished when we bought it, well finished except for the downstairs.) Stan wants to buy a cabin we can work on. See the difference? Cabin-house. I know there are beautiful cabins, but that is not in his plan. He wants one to fix up. He claims if we buy a house I will find a wall that is in the wrong place. I will. So why not just buy something we can put back together and save ourselves the taking apart part of it. My reasoning, with something finished already, I will not have as much trouble keeping it clean. Even in the midst of a tear down and rebuild. Oh what to do, what to do? Truthfully, I know we will get the cabin if we implement the plan. Stay tuned, this will not go away soon:)

Just what did we get accomplished this week?

A few weeks ago I said we had taken the carpet up out of the family room in the basement of our home. This week we began the tile process. Our son Bryan did most of the actual laying of the tile.
It matches what we put down in our entry way a few weeks ago.
I really do not know why I come up with these "great" ideas, cause I do HATE messes.

The guys did get it all down by Thursday night. Stan grouted it on Friday. He was able to clean most of the grout off by Saturday. On Sunday I went downstairs and did a wet mop on it. Here Darius (#1419) got hold of my rag while I was doing something else. He did manage to get a bit more water on the tile than I intended, but I got it cleaned up with no serious damage.
The room is put back together by Sunday night. We need to paint and put up new trim. It will really be pretty then.
This view is into Stan's piano room which we decided to tile also. I want to tile the room to the left where carpet is visible. This is my sewing craft room. It would be nice to not have carpet in a room that I sew and sometimes drop pins in. It would also complete the flow of the tile.

In the front of the house, just off of the entry is a bedroom that is carpeted also. I am hoping to tile that room too. It would make the entire basement area of our home tile and so much easier to keep clean.

Just a few more things to do to make this 9 year old home live able:) Paint the entire house. The tile I mentioned above, as well as the two upstairs bathrooms. New trim throughout, as well as new white doors. Then if I really want to push my luck, I will ask to hardwood the two remaining bedrooms. By the time we finish, I will not be able to navigate the stairs any longer and we will need to sell it and move to a one level.

Roz asked me

in a comment this week if we had solved our mold problem. Thought I would show you what we have been up to this week.

Downstairs bath getting new tile. We discovered the mold went under the wall into the laundry room so we will have to replace the floor in there also.

Bryan should be back this weekend to finish the tile job.

Dang, I loaded the bathroom sequence of pictures backwards, but I think everyone is smart enough to figure it out.

After the floor is finished, we

definitely will need to paint this room.

Also did some work in the kitchen.

The island Stan built a couple of years ago, just was not right so we decided to paint it.

Here it is all sanded down.

Getting ready to spray. I left at this time cause I did not want to inhale the fumes.

The first color we chose. It is a really nice red, but our granite is a green. It just did not compliment. I was sad because I really wanted some red in here.

The final color. Leather Brown by Glidden. It has a green cast to it so it compliments the granite much better than the red did.

We also decided to replace the builder grade molding with a larger paintable molding.

Today, we are looking at paint chips for the walls. Since our house is the open concept in the living room, dining room, kitchen, and stairway, it needs to be something that will flow smoothly from room to room.

We are also looking at paint colors for the rest of the cabinets. Everything is builder grade and we just do not want to put the extra dollars into the kitchen here. We are at the verge of upgrading beyond what our neighborhood will support value wise.

Changing out the molding is also going to run into changing out doors and window trims. Once you start something, it just leads to another project and it goes on and on. Does work to get ones mind off of the state of the country for a while though.

For some reason unknown to mankind, blogger is not letting me write between my pictures.