busy painting today, and it's coming along

**canadian gardener** · 08-08-2005, 05:12 PM

Primer coats going up.

Hallway, DD's old bedroom, doors thru the house (begone you ugly brown doors, be white from now ON!~!!) and both bathrooms, the up and downstairs ones.

Laundry room too.

and ceilings-- bathrooms, hallway and Dd's old room which is our new computer room to be.

very busy, won't be on much

paint blotches everywhere!

**PrairieRose** · 08-08-2005, 08:27 PM

Wow Margery! You are painting like a mad woman. I just did a lot of the same.....still have the aches and pains to prove it

Have fun and enjoy those paint fumes.....

**canadian gardener** · 08-09-2005, 09:48 AM

Ewww the ceiling texture is flaky. Never sealed, done on unprimed gyproc but I'm getting it primed and done. finished most of it yesterday except for the corners. That joy is for today, as well as a second coat of primer for the doors.

Not fiddling with the diet project at the moment. I'll pick that up when the painting is over.

I'm glad I'm getting this done.

My aim is that any room I tackle, I'm doing the ceilings first, so that they look clean and white, not beigy yellow orange compared to the new paint colours.

Then too I'll be able to do a ceiling paint fix if I go over the edge a bit or we have a minor disaster. It'll be one little patch of new paint which will feather into the fresh stuff I'm putting on now.

Ceilings bug me when they are dirty, it's all that couch time looking up at them.

So back on track.

Have a good day all

**PrairieRose** · 08-09-2005, 09:52 AM

Don't work too hard Margery.......

**canadian gardener** · 08-09-2005, 10:04 AM

Oh and if you go to the benjamin moore site at http://www.benjaminmoore.ca/home.aspx?userLanguage=en

and click onto the personal colour viewer I'm using the designer classics and historical palettes.

The entry (finally chose a colour) will be Sisal --a deep warm golden tan colour, from the designer group, with French Vanilla for the trim, door and beadboard.

The rest of the house the trim, doors, woodwork, moldings etc will be in Cloud White from the Designer classics group of colours. That is a white with a touch of black in it to dirty it up without going grey, and a touch of golden yellow to warm it up.

Bathrooms and our bedroom will be Yarmouth Blue from the Historical colour group --it is a soft pale blue with a slight aqua and gray undertone.

The hallway and main areas will be in French Vanilla from the designer group. It's a soft creamy beige like a just baked cookie.

When the living room wallpaper comes down (it's a soft light gold) a paint colour called Corinthian white will replace it, same shade exactly. I have a navy couch and dark oak dining room furniture.

Everything has a gold undertone to it, even the Yarmouth Blue has a touch of golden yellow to tone down the blue.

Eventually I will also remove the kitchen wallpaper, and paint the walls Red Point Sand (designer classics group) and do the melamine paint in a Cloud white for the cabinets and the counter I'll redo in the French Vanilla to keep tying it all together.

The house was redone just before we bought it in a shiny semi gloss white. Grey berber carpets. Sooooo COLD!!!! I am so sick of semigloss white walls!

We will eventually replace the berber carpet with medium to light oak laminate flooring.

**canadian gardener** · 08-09-2005, 10:08 AM

Thanks hon, I'll be careful. I know I'll pay for this in a few weeks, but I'm hoping to make hay while the sun shines to quote my dad. I have the paint now, I have some energy, and it won't last but, I want to feel sick looking at nice fresh walls. LOL at least that is what I'm saying today.