More Paint is On the Wall

We managed to get three coats of paint on the wall today! Hurrah!

But before the painting started, I had to take a shot of my handiwork from yesterday in daylight, from the outside.

Voila!

Pretty different from this, huh?

Anyway, back to the business of the day. As always, it happened much slower than I expected it to.

Mainly because we weren't quite ready to leap straight into painting. Daniel needed to hand sand the master bedroom to prepare it for its third coat of paint (which in retrospect wasn't really necessary, but it's certainly a well-painted room now!), and I had to wash down the walls of the kitchen, and the master bedroom once Daniel was done.

First things first, I used a stanley knife to cut away the tape that we'd put up to protect the skirting boards from the floor stain. The lacquer was almost seamless from floor to tape, so to prevent risking ripping up the lacquer the stanley knife was essential.

The results:

And then I washed and washed and washed. These walls were in horrible condition! The person who originally painted them clearly didn't put in much effort, and who knows when they were last cleaned properly! Oh well. They were scrubbed today.

I then masked the edges of the floor so they didn't get any telltale white drips on them.

So here's how the kitchen started before we started painting.

And now half-way through the undercoat.

And now with the full undercoat.

And then it was time for the actual paint colour. Sandy Day half strength once again by Dulux.

Allie thinks it looks good.

Here I am mid-scaffolding-move.

And cutting in the first coat of paint.

And here's the finished kitchen! Well, finished after the first coat of proper paint, that is. Ignore the bright shiny upside-down-bowler-hat shape on the right wall, I managed to block most of the sun streaming in our new window on the West Wall, but missed the top bit.

In celebration of having finished for the day, Allie and Daniel cuddled up on the floor. Ah, true love.

So where does that leave us? With one more coat required in the kitchen (on the two walls we've painted so far), plus full coats on the West Wall which isn't quite complete yet. And all that remains for the master bedroom is painting the ceiling and the trim. Hopefully we can get it and Daniel's bedroom finished before the power is reconnected so we can move in comfortably. Won't that be nice?!!!