Kitchen and Family Room: Painting

We have painted rooms before, three rooms, a bathroom and stripes in the hallway of our apartment to be exact. So I would say we are no strangers to painting. We are aware of the do's and don'ts.. the important Repair. Prepare. Paint. What we were strangers to is the repairing. All the previous walls we had painted were pretty much new. They came with the original contractors paint.. so repairing was not needed. Nor did we need separate primer.. the paint plus primer combo pretty much worked.

Step one, I took pictures of all the repair jobs on the walls.. thank god the family room area had been already taken care of by the contractor and we only had to deal with the kitchen part of the walls. We took the pictures to show to the Home Depot guy so that we were certain the products we were purchasing we correct.

    

The job required sanding the bumpy, uneven areas till they were smooth, filling in the holes with joint compound or spackle, waiting for it to dry and then re-sanding the area till smooth. The tear in the wall was fixed by applying a tape and then spackle and sanding till smooth. So day one was pretty much spent doing just that..

Day two started off with the sanding we were unable to finish, we were very tired by the end of day one.. we had worked almost 12 hours and then there was the taping to do before we started priming. After another 12ish hours of working we were finally done repairing and preparing..

By the time day three rolled around.. M had taken a day off to get this finished.. we had to drag our sore bodies out of bed.. but finally it was time to paint. I had brought home several paint chips.. we wanted something light, cool, minty, but not too green.. maybe an aqua but not to blue or grayish.. of all the rooms we have painted we have never felt the need to bring home paint samples.. we always just knew.. this time was much more difficult a choice.. we settled on two samples.. I painted them in different parts of the room. Where the sun hit them directly, and in a darker corner to get an idea of how the color would look at different times of the day.

And the winner.. I wish it had a prettier name.. Valspar's Blanket.

and a little sneak peak of what's to come..

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