Day 6, 7, and 8 - Paint...Need We Say More?

We, probably don't HAVE to say much more, but I'm going to anyway.

Well, you'll have to forgive me for not posting what we did on Friday or Saturday, but Cass and I were at the house until around midnight both nights painting. So, when we got home, it was bedtime. Kind of like how I should be going to bed right now. Get ready, I'm sure this is going to be a long post.

So, this weekend was all about painting. On Friday evening after work, we went to Lowe's and bought the paint for the kitchen. We decided to paint a pale yellow color below the chair moulding and a sort of burnt orange color above it. We're eventually going to paint the cabinets the same yellow color as below the chair moulding. You'll get an idea of what it'll look like by looking at the end-product pictures a little later.

So we started off Friday night painting the lower portion of the walls the yellow color. Once again, a small victory got us all fired up to get moving on the greater project only to have that excitement shot down once again by how difficult the rest of the project is going to be. The two coats of yellow went up great. Nice and even finish. It looks awesome! Saturday, painting the orange walls? Yeaaah, not so much. It was unbelievable how uneven the first coat looked on the walls. The trim lines we painted stood out like a sore thumb, and to top it all off, a second coat of paint didn't completely fix that. We probably should have primed the walls or something, but oh well. Too late for that now!

The walls looked a hundred times better after putting on the second coat of orange, but we still had to figure out whether we wanted to just put another coat of orange up and hope it evens the rest of it out, or a while back when we were thinking about what to do with the kitchen, we thought about doing some kind of sponging or other textured finish. Well, we ended up deciding today that we were just going to put up a third coat of paint and hope it evens everything out.

Before we started on Saturday, we went to Lowe's again and got the paint we needed for our bedroom and living room. We pretty much kept almost the same colors as what we have in the bedroom at our apartment - which are medium dark tan and medium sage green - and we decided on a light khaki color for living room. Since we had to wait a while for the first coat of the orange to dry in the kitchen before we could do the second coat, we went upstairs to paint the tan color on the bedroom walls. We're painting the East and West facing walls the tan color and the North and South facing walls the green color. Since the North and South walls are the smaller walls in the room, the green will be more like an accent color and the tan will be the dominant color in the room. It should look pretty cool when we're done.

Today, after going to the house and doing a little thinking/imagining, we decided to just go with the third coat of orange paint. This coat, we think, did the trick. It was still a little hard to tell if the color was uneven because it was still drying, but the coverage looked pretty good. I'll try to take a photo of it when it's dry that does the color justice and post it later. All that's left to do in the kitchen is buy some new outlets, outlet covers, put the chair moulding back in place, paint the cabinets, and hang the new light fixtures. Nothing to it right? We'll just see about that...

While we were painting on Friday, I got a little careless and bumped my head against the yellow paint can and got some paint in my hair. Whoops! Later that night, I didn't realize the orange paint can's lid was laying on the floor right in front of me and I stepped in it! D'OH!

That's not half as funny as what happened on Saturday, though. Interestingly enough, Cass accidentally smeared the toes of her socks on a freshly painted area of the bedroom wall and got paint on her toes. Later on, doing the second coat of orange in the kitchen, she bumped her head on something that had orange paint on it, so she got orange in her hair. Look at the poor thing with her pouty face. What're the odds that I'd get paint on my head and toes on Friday and Cass does the same thing on Saturday? Crazy.

Here's a few more photos we snapped throughout the weekend.
Trimming out the kitchen took way longer than rolling it.


Yeah, lots of trimming.


Here's Cass wondering why I have to take another picture of her!


Here's my impression of a Dr. Pepper commercial. Our mortgage broker bought us a 6 pack of 1 liter bottles of Dr. Pepper and brought it to closing for us to celebrate! I can see why I never became an actor.