Day 4

Okay, maybe this'll come together soon. I love the colors, both individually and the way they look together. It's hard to tell from these pictures, but this painting stage should be finished by Friday!

I can't believe I'm saying this, but it'll be good to get my kitchen put back together!

Now, if that darn flooring order would get here...

Day 4

End of day 3

These painters ( 2 of them) have been painting their hearts out for 3 days now! I think everything now has at least one coat, so they will probably be finishing up tomorrow? All this priming and sanding out of rough spots and trim work...I'm SO glad I didn't tackle this on my own! I would've lost it just taping around the edges, let alone vaulted ceilings, and all the little fussy stuff!

I found this company on Angie's List, and a very lucky find it was, too. Anyone out there aware of Angie's List? It's an on-line website ( www.angieslist.com of course) and it lists ALL sorts of trades people and handy men, and just about any type of service you can think of. You plug in your zip code, and get local listings. Customers (both happy and un-happy ones) can enter comments on the people they've hired. You get comments on punctuality, quality of work, prices, etc. It's a great place to start. They list companies that members have entered, the companies don't list themselves or pay a fee to be listed. Only down-side is the membership fee; and it's not exorbitant, but it is annual. Might be worth looking into if anyone else is thinking of disrupting their lives like this! :<) I've looked up companies there several times now.

Tomorrow will be the unveiling of the colors!!! Stay tuned...

This how the first day ended. The morning was spent taping and prepping for primers, etc. The beginnings of the first coat happened in the afternoon.

For all you Flickr members who were told the colors were a secret...I guess the cat's pretty much out of the bag now! The beige shade needs to be "punched up" a little, but the other colors are good! Especially when the second coat goes on and the coverage is better. The photos almost make it look like wood paneling.

Painters return at 0900 tomorrow!

First paint day

Ready for paint

OK, by back hurts and I'm tired; but the place is as ready for the painters as I can get it. I just hope it's good enough! I took a lot of Really boring photos of bare naked, age stained walls this morning. Just how exciting can it get!?! Here are a few of them (if you're truly interested in any more of the same, they're posted on Flickr - if you need an invite, let me know).

Darn teal door frames and woodwork upstairs are going to take at least 3 coats of paint to be "right"!