Painting

Our house has a lot of wood paneling. I don't like the paneling because it makes everything so dark, with a lot of coaching from my friend Lynn I got up the courage to paint over the paneling. I really wanted to paint our bedroom because some of the walls are PINK! Dale thought I should paint the spare bedroom first so we could make sure we really liked it. So Thursday night I got started on the project.

Here's some before pictures of the room. The first step was too sand the walls that had paneling on them so that the primer and paint would adhere better!

Step 2: Apply primer to the walls

This is the picture of the wall of just paneling. That took the longest because I had to use a paint brush on all of the little crevis' in the paneling - but it was worth it.

Step 3: Chocolate Break! I was starting to get tired and frustrated so I thought some chocolate would help!!

Step 4: Second coat of primer

The primer took me 4 hours. But it ended up being the best decision of the entire project because the paint went on so much better!!

Saturday I realized that I didn't have as much paint as I thought I had. I had recently painted the living room a creamy color and I thought I would just use the rest of that paint. Plus I didn't want to paint the room so bold of a color because some day (hopefully soon) I will get to use this room as a nursery. So I went to the local hardware store and started looking at paint samples, I decided that I would just paint the room whatever color I wanted because it could easily be covered up again with another color. I had a color picked out, like a blueish greenish color and the lady helping me said she had some "oops paint" that was about the same color that she would sell me for $5.00!!!! I looked at the color and it was a little more blue than what I wanted but I thought thought for $5.00 I could cover it up. So I bought it.

Here's the final product:

The quilt on the bed is one that my Great-Great Grandma and Great Grandma made together. My mom bought a bunch of their quilts at my Great Grandma's estate sale - I am so excited that this matches. IF the room becomes a nursery the quilt is going on the wall. I love it so much.

I don't have anything on the walls yet, but I think I will find something. I went to JoAnn's fabric store yeterday and got some eyelet material for the curtains, Dale should be hanging the blinds tonight. My mom came up with the idea that we would recover the window seat so that it would match the walls a little more. And I'm going to make some pillows to sit on the window seat. The pictures don't give the walls enough justice but I am so excited about getting to paint the paneling. I love it so much. Now, it took a lot of work and 3 days, but it was so worth it in the end.

I think now I have convinced Dale that we need new carpet because our currant Mauve colored carpet clashes a little with the newly painted room!