Pictures of Life in the Land of Oz: Summer Painting

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Summer Painting

We painted 4 rooms this summer. Did we lose our minds? Maybe just a little bit. The real crazy part was when we bought the paint in...April, I think...and Shad thought we could do all the painting before Dancy was born. Psh! Say hello to 6 weeks of 56 hours at work...

Anyway, the too dark with little natural light dining room before:

And after:

Garage entryway:

I asked Shad, "So how many canaries do you think it took to make these three gallons of Canary Song?" We spent a few seconds making wood chipper sound effects:) The whole dining room area took us a week. 3 colors of paint, 2 coats each, every weeknight after the kids went to bed (9-11 or midnight). We made the hour glass pillars with a stencil (created by Shad with a flattened Special K box) and loads of tape.

No real before picture for the living room. It was just white walls. Shad did have to fix a spot of drywall. Story behind that is that two of the brothers that previously inhabited our home were wrestling and the younger brother's head went into the wall. Shad had to ask youtube how to match the texture. We ended up still having furniture in front of that spot anyway!

And here's our After:

We painted the brown the same days as we were using it in the dining room. It was a 5 gallon bucket we scored on clearance for $30!

The upstairs guest bedroom needed some serious wall help. I did an internet search to learn how to remove wallpaper glue. Diluted fabric softener and a sponge, in case you were wondering.

This is above a window frame. I can only imagine that the boys sat around with a push pin when they were bored. How else to you explain that above a window? There were actually holes like that all over the walls. Would you believe it if I told you it took over an hour to do the spackling? Oh, and they had a dart board without a back. Lovely.