The week without the big kids turned out to be very productive. I started by wiping down and painting all of the flat white doors and door trim. 11 doorways to be specific! They all have a fresh coat of washable, satin paint. Hopefully this will help the house look cleaner. The more that I painted them though, the worse the walls looked. I decided not to paint the base boards until I can paint the walls, too. I have a lot of painting on my to do list for the future.
Next on the list was the kitchen. This felt like it took forever! So much trim work between the ceiling, base boards and cabinets. Very textured walls, too. (Can't make it too easy!) I changed the color from tan to green. I was a little nervous about the color... thought it might look too dark, but it turned out great. Took a couple of coats though. Finished it on Wednesday.
Thursday morning I slept in! Around noon I started on the surprise project... the boys' room. They picked out the color Really Electric Lime while we were looking for paint colors for the kitchen. This, I was super nervous about. My first swipe with the paint, I was thinking I need to rush out and get a different color. After 2 coats had dried though, I actually liked it! Thinking the shorter walls would not require much paint, we only bought a quart. I ran out pretty quickly. After I finished using all of that paint, I took a nap while waiting for Jackson to bring home another quart after work. I woke up from my nap and decided I had better be productive while I waited, so I painted the banister upstairs, which was also flat white. When he got home with the second quart, we painted until 10:30 when we ran out again. He then had to run back to WalMart to buy a third quart. Wishing we would have bought a gallon! By midnight we had the boys' room finished.
Friday morning I got up, bought some new navy curtains for the boys' room, put the switch plate and outlet covers back on, and headed down to pick up the kids. I couldn't wait to show them their room. They had a birthday party as soon as they got home, so we showed Madalynn first. She then walked down the hall and said to Jackson, "Daddy, look in my room!" She walked in the room and said, "Uh-oh". Apparently she thought we had painted her room too. Talk about feeling bad.... Who would have thought a two-year-old would care about the color of her room? She told us she wanted to paint "all the walls" in her room "hink". I guess I will add that to my list for the future.
The boys loved their surprise room painting, and I feel super accomplished after a week full of painting.
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