It’s truly amazing what a coat of paint can do.
Exhibit A. Our scary basement went from this:
Basement
To this:
Basement with Kilz paint
Our garage from this:
Garage before paint
To this:
And my favorite, the living room painted 2 coats of Analytical Gray by Sherwin Williams.
Living Room on Closing Day
New living room paint
Excuse the badly lit pictures, it was dark by the time I snapped the photos.
Here are a few more “afters” of the living room. We love the color, it’s a good mix of gray and beige (aka greige) and should go great with our furniture.
The problem with painting one room, it makes all the others around it look even worse!
Ben did the majority of the rolling, and I did most of the cutting in. I loved using Ben’s scaffolding to cut in on the ceiling. I call it my tight rope, but it makes it so much easier than moving the ladder every few feet.
On my tight rope
In addition to painting those 3 rooms, we’ve also changed the locks on all the exterior doors, ripped out a moldy bathroom ceiling (and sprayed it with bleach), patched some holes in the walls, defrosted the fridge, filled some pot holes in the driveway with gravel and cleaned the place within an inch of its life.
Not bad for just 3 nights of work. Here’s a few pics of us working away.
- Spraying bleach on joists to prevent mold
Tomorrow morning our friend Lee is coming over to help move our stuff still in boxes and furniture that we didn’t move into the rental to the new house. Most of it will go into the garage or basement so we have room to work before we move in.
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