Time Flies When You're Having Fun

I laugh typing that title because one part of me is furiously nodding and the other part is just furious. The past couple weeks have been full of painting. We've painted the entire house (again) excluding the four seasons room. And last week we moved onto painting the kitchen cabinets (I'm a sucker for white cabinets as you all know). We just finished priming/painting. I literally mean just finished - I may be getting white paint on the keyboard as I type.

 

Here's the visual updates so far. I've put the paint colors we used by each picture. We ended up using all the same colors as the last house since we had a lot left over (apparently we were nervous about running out; so nervous that we had multiple untouched gallons).

(SW: Diverse Beige)

 

Don't mind all the crap in the living room. The only thing in it's right place is the TV. We have a new sectional couch on order and the blue chairs against the back wall will find a another home problem in the sunroom. Of course, wall art will be coming soon once things are more in order.

 

 

I need to find a new light fixture ASAP. We're also painting on the trim/base white. I can't wait for it too look fresh and clean! Clean in general is probably more like it. See below for where all our paint clutter is sitting.

 

 

 

Well, here and in the sunroom. But see here! These are the last round of cabinet doors we needed to paint. And that, my friends, is the final coat drying tonight!

 

 

 

Here is the kitchen as of now. The first round of doors we painted are hung. We're waiting on our hardware. I'll post a tutorial for that once we get there!

 

 

(Kitchen Cabinet paint: Zinser's primer, Benjamin Moore's Cloud Cover White)

 

We tried a new method for painting the cabinets. See our tutorial from our first house here where we sanded all the cabinets down before deglossing, priming and painting three coats of paint. Instead of sanding, this time we used Zinser's Paint Deglosser and Zinser's Strip Fast. After a coat of each (make sure to follow the directions for drying time), we went straight into priming. We ended up doing three coats of paint after the primer to get the coverage we wanted.

 

 

Anyway, back to the two week tour of the house. Here's the guest bathroom:

 

 

(SW: Monorail Silver)

 

I'm side tracking on the tutor to show you what some metallic spray paint and 3 new $7 glass bulbs (from Menard's) can do! The "before" light picture is from our master bathroom and the "after" is clearly in our guest bathroom. But the light fixtures were the same in both, so it works right?

 

 

 

And here are the two guestrooms (sorry for the different angles):

 

(SW: Sandbar)

 

 

(SW: Evening Shadow)

 

Finally, here's the master bedroom. The pink blinds still give me shivers. Yuck. And I have no master bathroom picture because absolutely nothing has been done to it. Besides putting our stuff in it!

 

(SW: Monorail Silver)

 

Well, that's the short tutor. More to come!