Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Nothing Left but Touch-Up

The first thing we did this morning was to start peeling off the tape to see how the bedrooms turned out. We got the first bedroom done and then I started taping for the green paint. While I went to tutor, G. finished with the tape and newspaper that was down on the ground and hung the closet doors back up. It was the first time we saw the paint next to the hardwood floor--luckily, it looks really good!

Master bedroom:
Smallest bedroom:
Medium bedroom:
The only problem is on the hardwood floor near the baseboards. The masking tape and/or primer and/or baseboard paint left a mess all along the floor near the baseboards:
The good news is that it scrapes off with a razor blade. The bad news is that there's an awful lot of baseboard/floor that now needs to be scraped!

We took a break for lunch and then started with the green. We painted the hallway:
The living room:
And the dining room:
This paint is AWESOME! Or maybe the primer is awesome... The only place we've needed two coats is going over the semi-gloss used to paint the trim (I didn't tape when painting the trim, so slopped on the walls). We will need to do some touch-up (and we bumped doors and trim while moving things and the tape did take off some paint in a few areas) tomorrow, but for the most part, the house is painted!

And, finally, we cleaned up the kitchen and put away all the power tools we'd hauled over in the last two weeks.

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