Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Summer bucket list...

... errrr, Winter bucket list? It's always a little hilarious to me when I set a date or time frame for home renovations. Projects always take longer than expected. We always have busier schedules than anticipated. And on and on. My personal struggle with being very type A has eased considerably and I'm pleasantly content with any sort of progress being made. A couple of weekends ago, Jeremy and I FINALLY got a couple of coats of paint on the house! We've been preparing for paint since June, how crazy is that?? All of our windows are installed and trimmed out. We ordered/assembled and installed the new front door. We finished our roofing and installed all of the flashing. All of the fascia has been scraped and primed. Holes have been filled, all of the scraping, priming, pressure washing, random hardware removing, caulking, etc is totally done. Now, we are waiting for the weather to improve to finish the following:

-Prime/paint office exterior door and trim
- 3rd coat- front/sides fascia
- 1st/2nd/3rd coat back fascia
- Paint exterior doors: office, shop, kitchen, second office door
- Stain front door

We were so lucky to have had a couple of extra hands on the second day of painting and were left with very little to complete.

We also completed a third set of shutters. Now every window have shutters in the front of the house.

 On the left is the door when we first installed it. Since, I ordered Baldwin door hardware and a dentil shelf. Eventually the door will be stained a deep red and the front porch will match.
 The top is the after view. I love how the gray hue accentuates the ranch style house and the beautiful white trim around our brand new windows. The shutters are such a great touch. *pats self on the back
 Pretty great, right?



Paint Color Has Been Chosen

Pretty exciting stuff eh?

Well it is to us!

This color choice (a long process to arrive here) means that we are now able to paint closets/trim/casings/ baseboards/our pantry.......and............ once our cabinets are decided upon, this will be the color of our kitchen cabinets as well! Very, very exciting!

Here are the painting jobs that I could not wait to have done once the choice had finally been made!

This is brand new trim that Jeremy put up in record time after work one night
We primed/sanded/filled in holes last night and painted it this morning.










We also finished painting our pantry that was primed several months ago its second coat went on this morning and the trim will be finished with its second coat later today






















We asked the paint guy to use the recipe from our wall color and add a fraction of it to a semi-gloss white and we are stoked with what turned out! Choosing from color swatches would have looked far too green/pink/etc against the wall color. I am, however, not really looking forward to living out of the guest bedroom closet when I start to paint my closet ;) but stoked to get it finished!