Home Renos 2.3

A lot has happened since my last update on Tuesday, and most of it involves painting!!  What this whole project was suppose to be from the beginning.  YAY!

Thursday night, John finished the first coat and some of the second coat of the primer with Paul's help, while I was at the Met.  It didn't take them very long to complete and when I got home the house looked like this:

Had a couple of spots like this to finish plastering

So from the last picture above, he didn't quite get all the first coat done, but it was 8:45pm and we hadn't had supper yet, he was allowed to not finish.

Friday night, John finished the second coat of primer in the living room, while I painted the corners in the hallway and front entry, which John followed with the roller to complete the first coat.  There was one spot in the closet that still needed to be plastered, so he worked away on that too.  We were up until 10:20pm working on it and didn't get supper until 10:30pm.  It was a long night.

Saturday morning started a bit later, but we finished up the second coat of primer in the hall and again John had to do some more plastering in the closet.  Here's some pictures of the completed primed walls and ceilings.

While everything was drying, we headed to Canadian Tire to buy our paint.  We brought down all our paint samples and changed our colours picks before we left.  I have been picking paint samples for weeks now and last week, every night before we would go to bed, I'd bring them all out and ask John which ones he liked more, which he would reply by saying we've picked our colours and that he didn't want to see them.  So much for having a decision made!  I will admit, I'm glad we looked at them again, because this way we got to see them in the room during the day, made a big difference.

Once we got home, we started painting the ceiling.  John did most of the painting, which I went around with a small sponge roller and rolled out any drips on the walls and moved things around.  It didn't take very long to paint and once the first coat was done, we had lunch, watched two Star Trek episodes and came back up to do the second coat.

After supper and a Star Trek movie, we came up and inserted all the pot light covers and put the hallway lights back up.  Unfortunately we were not able to get started on the walls today, so you will all have to wait until tomorrow to find out our wall colours!  Here are some pictures of the completed ceiling with the lights up!

The hallway and front entrance lights are a bright
white and the living room is a soft white, that is why
the colouring looks so off.