Primed and ready to paint

This is the dining room with the tinted primer on the walls and the ceiling already painted.

I think my camera hates blue. This picture doesn't really do it justice. It's sort of a zen periwinkle. Very calming. I can't wait to see the actual paint.

Here is the kitchen with the tinted primer up on the wall.

This is the second coat of primer since it goes up a little splotchy. I think I'll do one more coat of primer and then paint the real color.

More pictures of paint and a pumpkin

This picture from my dad's cheap cvs digital camera seems to show the color better than my older (though more expensive) digital camera.

And here's a picture of my sister's amazing carved pumpkin!

The Blue Room

Well, none of these pictures really captures the color exactly. There is a stark difference in the color in bright light and shadow, so imagine the true color being somewhere in-between.

primer

We chose a dark indigo for the bedroom so the primer is tinted blue.

And here's a picture of my niece Charlie from the last time she was here. Isn't she the cutest?

ready for paint!

So I decided to use the materials at hand and thanks to the help of my brand new brother-in-law we got the drywall up on the ceiling last Friday and my friend Steve came to pick up a couple of the leftover sheetrock pieces on Saturday. I spent the weekend making my seams and corners as perfectly smooth as possible and yesterday I picked up the paint for the bedroom and diningroom. I haven't actually gotten started yet though because my math homework was and still is calling to me. Also calling to me are some unresolved work issues that I need to transfer to less fortunate coworkers before I leave for good.

I know I haven't had pictures in a while, but joint compound really isn't that pretty to look at. I promise there will be pictures again soon.

Connect the Dots

So it's been a while, and I don't have new pictures of the renovation to share. There has been progress. We've done the joint compound and smoothed it over with a damp mop. It's actually pretty amazing how much the sponge mop acts like an eraser or a sanding block to remove the excess joint compound. It's almost finished, but there are still a few places around light fixtures and heating vents that need attention.

I've already bought the paint for the kitchen. It's Rapture by Glidden. Yes, it's really that red. The chosen color for the diningroom is Magic Spell by Behr, but when I looked at the paint chip it looked far more gray than I remembered so I didn't buy it yet. I thought I'd give the paint chip one more viewing in the room first.

So why haven't I been blogging?

1. I sprained/strained my wrist doing the joint compound and wanted to rest it for reason number 2.


2. My first Grad class in Applied Math, which lead to reason number 3.


3. An unplanned calculus review, because I couldn't seem to get the derivatives right. I forgot all about the product rule and quotient rule.


4. I celebrated turning 3-cubed years old (after a shock to find out that I've been thinking I was already 27, and then realizing that I was only 26!)


5. My sister is getting married and I spent 2 days trying on bridesmaid dresses to find a style that I could live with in a color that I could live with, and then trying on shoes to go with the dress.

Do I really need more reasons?