Paint, Paint and more Paint

Hi!

Summer has gotten off to a great productive start.  N is at camp this week, so C decided to paint the playhouse.  Here's how it looked before.  

It came to us a barn red (maybe 6 years ago) and I spruced it up with some leftover paint from our old red front door.  

Here's how it looked inside.  There's a broken green chair and a yellow chair and plastic patio table on the back left side.

Here's looking up to the little loft on the front left.

The right front side.

And a kitchen set on the right back.

 Plus, I stored the fire pit in there last winter and there was soot, dirt, spiders, etc.  Yuck. 

I cleaned it up, put screens on the windows, made little curtains from leftover fabric, and put in the leftover vinyl flooring from our bathroom.  C put a little bed out there. Here's how it looks inside now.

This is the left back.

  Left front.

 Right back.

 Right front.

C picked a super bright green to paint the outside (CIL Ext. Latex Satin with built in primer- Crayon Green from Canadian Tire) and had a friend over to help her start painting.

We bought 1 quart of paint because I remembered that's how much we had for the door, but the back never got done.  I figured that would be enough paint for the front and the sides and we'd just do the back another color.

However, it became apparent that bright green over dark red, would need more than one coat.  In order to stretch the paint I added white.  C was very upset about this because you can see below on the side, it turned out yellow.

(See all the junk in the yard?  That all came from inside the playhouse!)

So, since Tuesday was a holiday- Happy Canada Day!- we waited til Wednesday to go back to the store to get another can of paint.  I only wish I'd thought this thru because I could've used some old exterior light blue paint + primer for the base coat and then I think we could've gotten away with one quart.  

Here's how it's looking with the 2nd coat on the front. 

Here's a close-up of the window screen.

So, what else did I paint?  The breezeway windows! (They also got caulked.)

Here's the before.

And the way before.

I like how the breezeway windows sorta match the windows and door on the back of the house. 

Should I put window boxes under the breezeway windows? 

Notice we have the pool out.  We're thinking we might need a bigger one!  It's been really hot the last few days- up to 29C (85F) with a humidex of 36C (97F).

  Meanwhile, in the front there's more painting going on!

I touched up the shed trim.

Here's how it looked before.

Then I decided to go ahead and paint the front trim (? Is that what you call the rails, spindles, etc?).

Anyway, because I had a shellac based primer to seal knots, I started with that.  Here is the spotty primer look.

 I also caulked the seams on the corner posts. 

Here's how it looks all painted.

And here's how it looked last fall!

Much more welcoming now!

Lotsa painting going on!!  Enjoy the rest of your week! :-)