House Painting Begins

Our house has been needing repainting and with the prospect of moving and selling our house we decided it would be nice to get it done early so we're not rushed if we do decide to move. Either way it needs to be done. We also knew that my friend Whitney could use some money and she has done painting jobs before so we asked her if she would like to help and we would pay her. I was kind of dragging on getting the painting figured out but thanks to Whitney she gave me the push I needed. First, she brought paint samples from Home Depot for me to look at. I had also needed to get over my sickness before we could start. The next thing you know Whitney says she's moving back to Nevada for a job and at first it was going to be the first week of March but then it changed to Feb 14th. That basically gave us one week to have her help. 

She was busy on Monday the 7th so we didn't get started until Tuesday. We spent the first day cleaning, taking down decorations, moving furniture and filling holes. Then we went to Home Depot to get the paint. Whitney helped me decide to go on a darker warm brown in the kitchen and then later she also suggested extending the brown into the front room to make one large accent wall. It turned out great and I'm so glad she suggested it! We were able to get a lot painted on Wednesday and Thursday but by the end of the day on Thursday Whitney's tooth was really hurting her. She made an appointment to go in the next morning. Unfortunately things got worse for her in the middle of the night. She called the ambulance and went to the ER. She had at least one big kidney stone plus a bad UTI infection. She sent me a text about it around 5am Friday morning. They were going to do surgery but decided to see if she could pass it. They prescribed several medications. Some of the meds made her really nauseated. Needless to say, she was not able to help me any more even though she really wanted to. Saturday night I was able to give her some of Nikki's pills she had for nausea and Whitney said they helped a lot, thank goodness! She was moving slower but Monday she headed down to Nevada with the help of her boss. He drove up the day before to help her pull her camper down. They made it and she's already loving it down there. And this week I have been moving slower on the painting. It sure makes a difference having her to help motivate me.

Filling holes.

This is what the kitchen and front room wall looked like before painting.

This is the other front room wall. We had vinyl stickers and our tree decoration on the wall but had to take them off. The vinyl could not be saved. Whitney bought me a new vinyl family phrase to replace the old one but if we're moving I'm going to wait to put it in our new home.

Curtis bought a board so we could stand on it with the ladders. We used it at first but only on this wall. Later we opted for single ladders.

Whitney also helped me decide to leave the side walls up on the plant shelf white instead of brown to break it up. I love it!

Cocoa was having fun climbing the ladders. As were the girls!

This wall in the kitchen bothered me the most. The corner was banged up and the old paint was just so thin it looked dirty even after wiping the walls. As you can see we had lots of dents or holes to fill in as well.

Up on the other plant shelf. The one that goes into the front room and the kitchen.

We needed a tall ladder and so Curtis finally bought us one. The girls were thrilled they could touch the ceiling!

I was on my own at this point and had Jack take a picture. I was putting on the 2nd coat. Whitney had done the first coat the day before.

Got the kitchen all taped up and painted.

This is after so as you can see the color is not much different from the original but is a shade darker. 

On Saturday we moved on to the front wall and hallway. Curtis taped and I painted.

This week I did the 2nd coat on the front wall and hallway. Then did this small area by our laundry room.

I did start prepping our bedroom today. We had decided that since we are most likely moving and need the colors in the house to be sellable that we would make most of the colors the same light color so that's what our bedroom will be also. 

Got most of the taping done today. I will have to do 3 walls first and then the last wall separately like we did the front room. We just don't have the space with the bed in there. Can you see Curtis hiding behind the dresser? 😆

The goal for tomorrow is to get at least one coat of paint on the 3 walls but hopefully two. Then Curtis can help me on Saturday.