The Project: priming

This house had walls with "stuff" literally dripping off them. Dripping. Gross.

We sanded the paint down.
Bleached the walls.
Mudded all the cracks, holes and damaged areas.
Sanded again. Oh...the sanding!

My parents primed the hallway on Saturday and suddenly there was new life in these walls.


This is my Poppie. He's 84. He is a worker bee. He's been showing up to the house from time to time asking to help. He wants to help so badly. He can hardly hear us. He can see out of only one eye. There's not a lot for him to do. But he knew we were sanding walls. So he grabbed a chair and jumped right in.


The dining room before...



A couple of views of the dining room after...with blue ceiling {love} and one coat of primer...there may be hope for this room too.

Don't go falling in love with my Fourth of July vinyl tablecloth window treatments. Those are custom! Also note the green "Approved" stickers from the inspectors. Yay!

Day three of the weekend shift...I had enough!


Back at it this weekend. Hopefully will get some color on the kitchen and dining room. Here's what I'm planning...the light blue on the left is the ceiling...the darker bottom color is for the dining room...the top grey color for the kitchen.