Kitchen Paint

Hi!

Well, we've made a bit of progress in the front room, but the main thing I did this week on Tuesday and Thursday when I was home during the day was to paint the kitchen!

I bought a can of Boomerang Primer and the pre-mixed Linen colored paint.

Here's the kitchen once I moved some stuff off the walls, filled the holes and primed.

 Here is after painting the first coat on the two shorter walls and behind the shelves on the window wall.

I waited for K to get home before I got the ladder out to paint the two taller walls. It wasn't too bad. I started the painting on Tuesday.  Since I had to wait a day before I had time to paint again, the kitchen stayed a bit of a mess until Thursday when I put the second coat of paint on and moved everything back in.  

Here's how it looks now!

(Notice I turned the curtain under the desk around so it's more blue than green.)

Way Before

 Now

Before

 Now

Before

 Now

Way Before

The "Before" pics were actually taken right before. I didn't take other pics before I started taking everything down.  The "Way Before" pics were after we moved the desk on the other side many years ago!

It was a pretty good re-do, considering the paint only costs $18!  They actually had a buy 2 get one free deal, so I got the primer, Linen paint, and Pearly Grey paint all for $40!  What a deal!  The only bad thing was that it required 2 coats.  I'd kinda gotten used to doing just one coat because I'd been buying paint with primer.  However, I do think the paint is good.  It's from recycled paint, which I like.

Another good thing is that the Linen paint actually makes the blue ceiling and white trim look better!  Which is nice because often when you paint something, everything else looks bad and then you feel like you have to re-do everything!  There's still some green on the back of the kitchen island,  behind the sink,

on the microwave stand, 

and the chairs. I think it still looks fine so there's no need to repaint those(anytime soon! ;-))

Have a great weekend! :-)