Remade Home

Like I said a few posts ago (I know it’s been way too long…we’ve spent all our waking and free minutes at the house,) we purchase all our paint during a mega sale at Sherwin Williams last summer. Yes, one year ago. Of course, at the time we didn’t know we wouldn’t be cracking those cans open until now, but whatever. It was fun to open them up and still really like our choices. Good thing, because they were going on the walls no matter what.

For primer we use Olympic No-VOC primer that you can get at Lowes for a good price. I think it’s like $15 a gallon. They don’t have it in 5 gallon buckets, which is silly, so we just bought a cart load of one gallons. Hey, they’re easier to carry that way, right?

And our paint is all Sherwin Williams Harmony. We used this paint throughout our first house and were really happy with it. It’s a little on the pricey side, which is why we jumped at a store wide sale and got it all in one fell swoop. It covers nicely and is zero VOC (except for some added colorants.

So here’s a sneak peek at our color choices. We still have to add the moulding, hence the gaping while areas at the top of most walls. I also didn’t paint where cabinets will be, and left a very large margin of error for those areas. Lazy or brilliant? I vote for brilliant

Foyer

Living Room

Kitchen

Hallway (same as foyer)

Little Man’s Room

Kid’s Bathroom

Big Girl’s Room

Master Bedroom (looking into closet hallway and master bath)

Master Bathroom

Try and ignore all the dust spots that showed up in my pics, ok?

Our walls are done! Our walls are done! It doesn’t even seem quite real.

We have been priming and painting like lunatics, so happy to finally be able to get some work done on our own It’s fabulous! Here’s our room all primed and ready to go:

Hubby and I have literally been painting in shifts…he gets up early, goes over and paints till the afternoon, then comes home to swim with the kids and I head over for my turn. I’m proud of us.

Next I’ll be sharing some pics of our paint color choices (which we made nearly a year ago when there was a really good sale at Sherwin Williams and we had no idea we wouldn’t be painting till July of ’11. Nothing a good paint stirrer can’t fix. Except for the fact that we apparently forgot to get some, so we’re using anything we can find to mix these dormant cans of paint up. But once they’re on the wall, it’s like seeing an old friend…like ‘hey! You’re pretty!’ So much fun!

well…it means you have doors in your house!!!

Yay!

I am so, so excited about these doors that the hubby installed for us! I found a lot of 5 of them on ebay in a town not too far from where he works, so he was able to pick them up easily. One of the doors has water damage, so is unusable, but the other 4 are perfect and I believe I spent only $70 on all of them!

5 panel, solid wood vintage doors. Love them!

The one that’s for our little guy’s room was too short, so he extended it and once we get it all sanded and re-painted, it’ll look good as new. They add so much to the house-I love how they’re so solid and heavy.

Now we’re just trying to decide what to do about hardware. I have a lot of learning about mortise lock systems in my future.

My 5 year old thinks the doorknobs and keyholes are too cool…and that there is a “pirate key” floating around somewhere that will fit perfectly