First Coat of Paint

So we wimped out the last 2 days but finally got off our rear ends and put the first coat of paint up tonight. It came out really nice but will need a 2nd coat for sure. So to update our colors and progress we took what we like to call "Fuquay Gothic". Of course when I sat down to edit this at 2am it occured to me Mandy's eye's are backward compared to the picture and I'm to lazy/don't know, how to fix it. None the less I still think we pulled off a cool picture and really nice color. It looks awsome with the new bed frame. Wait until we paint the "custom" entertainment center we made.

A very gray day

We finally got around to painting today. Just as we were coming up into the room we looked outside and saw these nasty looking clouds. Since the last time a storm like this rolled threw we ran outside to take pictures.....for the insurance. It was bad last time, real bad so we figured we'd see what we could see before it started. The wind was clicking at recorded gusts over 50mph it rained pretty good. It was crazy to see this storm with such a sharp cut off and it cruised over the neighborhood. You can see my neighbor out recording video since he works for the local TV station.




We did eventually get around to painting some. This was only primer but it not like its any easier. My walls sucked up 1.75 gallons of paint in one bedroom. It was crazy. It took all night but we did eventually get done....at 2am. We got lazy tonight plus another storm rolled through around the time we were going to start and it was flickering the lights on and off so we figured we shouldn't start then it get dark on us. Hopefully tomorrow we'll have it painted and by sunday we'll be moved back in.

July 4th Weekend

For some reason instead of hanging out and doing nothing we chose to work our rear's off again and paint the master bedroom. Now we knew this wouldn't be an easy task since it's not as simply as slap the paint down. First the originals contractors painted everything white to hide all the flaws. We have a torchiere light that burns an a nice 300 watts and it stays beside the bed. By chance while laying there one night with it on I looked up at the walls. It was then I knew when we went to paint this it would be quite the undertaking. So now that you know that you can look at the pictures. After 3 days of mudding, sanding, taping, cleaning and more cleaning we are ready to put down primer tomorrow. We are also planning on trimming out the windows so hopefully I can take some good pictures of that too. My neighbor has a miter saw and a small air gun so it should go pretty quick.

The spots you are seeing is not wet spots. This is mud spots. Thats how bad it is.