Painting! [finally :)]

We have paint on the walls...and it is pretty! First, we used Discover card cash back rewards to get gift cards to Ace. In our first trip we brought home 4 samples: shades of green, yellow, navy, and blue/gray. The green, as well as the subsequent green we tried, were both too bright. The yellow is pretty good, but we might try one more. The navy was too dark. The blue/gray was perfect! We decided to use the blue/gray in our bathrooms and Dave in particular went quickly to work one weekend.

Step 1: sand all the walls with our nifty new sander (they had texture from the wallpaper glue)
Step 2: clean the whole house, which was covered in a layer of dust
Step 3: paint the ceiling
Step 4: prime the walls
Step 5: paint the walls!!!

The walls only seemed to need one coat. We then spent Monday doing a thorough cleaning of the bathroom and touch up work to connect our white trim to our new blue walls.

Sorry, Dave Ramsey. Credit card points are painting our house!

BEFORE

The colored spot on the left wall is the navy that turned out to be too dark for the space.

AFTER!

We are so pleased! This weekend bathroom project taught us much about the painting process and we look forward to transforming the rest of our home.