Almost 4 months later :)

It's been so long since I updated my blog, it's been that hectic here. We have all the remodeling done, all the painting (except trim work in a few rooms but that can wait) we are taking a break for a little while. It's nice to not have someone in our house for once. Our contractor guy was super nice and great but everyday coming home to someone here wasn't relaxing.

So from August to November we

• Painted the upstairs kitchen, eat in area, and living room/stairway

 **finally put a picture in that picture frame yesterday using one from our trip to Area 51 in 2008

I still need curtains!!!!! This picture is too dark but you can see Haystack's glowing eyes :)

• Sun-room and Family room -ceiling and dry wall redone in a lot of spots, the previous owner did not use tape when putting the drywall up or used such a little amount in spots that the drywall eventually started to split and cracks were showing thorough.

•  Downstairs bathroom ceiling redone and new shower put in-then Tom painted it Behr Green Crush Eggshell (I wish I would have used Semi Gloss).

• Deck finished off, the previous owner spent over $10,000 in Trek deck and installed it himself but never finished the bottom part and also when we took the hottub out that was there, the underneath had to be done, so we spent a ton just to get the materials to finish it, it looks a little off right now because new beside the older but the weathering will eventually even it out. (too much snow covering it for pictures right now)

• My bathroom was completely gutted out, I tore off 3 layers of wallpaper and the dry wall was so damaged underneath that it needed to have new drywall, so we redid everything including the floor. I love how it came out. We used Behr Venus Teal -Semi Gloss.

I love how he did the tile work

Finished (picture using Panarama on Iphone)

• Tom did almost all of the painting and I did trim work. We had a nightmare in the Family room, I wanted to do 2 walls in Behr Sunny Summer which a super bright yellow, we bought the primer and tinted it properly but the yellow would not cover the wall, yellow paint is transparent so even with 6 coats of paint and 1 coat of primer, it still would not cover the dry wall patching which was white. For 1 coat it took 4 hours so Tom spent 28 hours that was completly wasted because we had to start over.  So we decided to do the whole room in Antique Tin which took 1 coat of primer over the yellow and 2 coats of the Antique Tin.

Sadie jumped on the window with the paint still being wet

Tom covering the yellow with the gray primer

Family Room Finished

We just finished painting the sun-room a few weeks ago and it took 3 coats of the Behr Ultra paint in Summer Heat, we did one coat of primer and we used white primer instead of tinted. I love the color!

Haystack my sweetiepie

Things are looking better now in the Painting world :)

A week ago today I had discovered that all the hard work I did had to be started over, but this past week we have a lot of progress and things came out very well. Sometimes you just have to bite your tounge and start over and hope for better results. As I get older I am realizing, getting so upset, and stressed out over everything and letting it really ruin my day doesn't do anything but harm, so I just tell myself let's fix this and we did.

We sanded the whole wall down, 1 long wall, Tom and I together for a few hours, sanded and sanded. There was black dust everywhere, we used a pole sander, little rubber hand sander thingy and I found that just holding a piece of sandpaper in my bare hand worked the best for me. I had the paint dust in my eyes, nose, mouth. I was stupid and didn't wear a mask. The next day I still had the dust taste in my mouth, and coming out of my eyes and nose, not good. It took a long time to get everything clean and I am still wiping up the black dust in spots I didn't realize it go to. Thankfully my furniture was already covered from painting.

 Before we started sanding, Tom put the first coat of the medium gray color which is Cobblestone Path by Bejamin Moore on, this went on perfectly with no problems.

See my kitty Coffy on that box, that's one of the boxes my chairs came in and I don't know how I am going to get rid of it, he loves that box.

We went to Home Depot and bought the new paint and primer for the Dark Gray wall. The paint color I picked was Behr's Pencil Point. For the primer we used Zinsser Bulls Eye 1-2-3 Primer Sealer that someone from Home Depot recommended. When stirring Tom this glob of stuff, we called Home Depot they said if we want to bring it back, they had no idea what we were talking about. I wish Department Paint stores would put experienced painters in there, there are a few, but all of them should be. Luckily the guy who is doing the work for us here happened to be here and told us it's completely normal and to just take it out.

 This primer goes on very runny compared to the paint. Some spots wouldn't even hold the primer and we started to panic, but then just rolled over it again. We let it dry overnight and it was ready to paint.

Here is a quick picture of the wall with my table and chairs. I LOVE IT! I can't wait to get art on the wall and some decor around it. I ordered 1 more green chair to even them out. I love having so much more room at the table. We finally sold our other table after posting it online a few times.

Behr paint was on sale last week at Home Depot so I picked my colors for the downstairs family room. Behr's Sunny Summer (the brightest yellow I have ever seen) and Behr's Espresso Beans, a very dark brown. I wanted to go with dark gray and yellow so much but even though I do have a gray couch in the sunroom, I have the dark brown couch in the family room, I am regretting this as I type it, I wish I could have just bought the dark gray and moved my couches. In the sunroom I have a burnt orange color that we are going to go with a bright orange and I thought my dark gray couch would look good with that. Dark Gray is my favorite paint color. If I have any yellow left, I will do one yellow wall in my bedroom and the rest dark gray.

My office at work is painted bright yellow, one shade lighter than Sunny Summer which I thought was the brightest yellow ever lol till I picked this one. The one in my office is Behr Bright Star.