Paint!

After a grueling day of hard work with 3 parents' help, we got the kitchen painted (and 2 closets!). It's very exciting! (We're also a little high from all the paint fumes.) The woodwork still needs a second coat, but it's all clean and pretty. We really couldn't have done this work without the help, so thank you thank you Barbara, Mary, and David. Here are some photos of the progress:


Mary (Adam's mom) working on the walls.


Adam and his precision brush.


Mary (with added height) and David (Adam's dad) slaving away.


Barbara (Reagan's mom) hitting the trim.


Reagan getting frustrated with the edge of the cornice molding.


Light and bright! The colors, off-white and offer-white (a light tan), work well to make a bright and airy kitchen.


The ceiling looks awesome, if we do say so ourselves, except for the one spot that David missed. Next time we'll take the photos with the hanging lights off so they don't make the room look orange.

Additionally, the coat closet in the kitchen and the guest room closet on the 2nd floor got new paint jobs. We decided it's too gross to store our clothes in a musty, dusty, dirty little room. So we fixed that. The coat closet was no big deal, but the bedroom closet was a lot more difficult than expected. This was largely due to the tendency of the paint on the walls to wash off. Calcimine paint is common in historic homes, and it is basically made of chalk and glue, which, by itself, will not peel, but anything you put on it will. That's why all of our ceilings are losing their paint.

Anyhow, so it was a messy process to prep this closet, but we used the leftover paint from our bedroom to brighten it up. Hopefully it will not peel off until after we have moved out...


Barbara working in the closet.


The closet primed, but still fairly unsightly.


Painted with the shelves put back in.


Ok, so this is an unexciting photograph, but how do you capture a closet, really? But it's nice and clean, and we feel much more comfortable storing things in there now.