Good Bye White Walls, Hello Color

This past weekend we had a painting marathon.  Friday night, Jason, dropped the kids off at his parents house for the weekend, so that the kids would be out of the way of painting and have fun with Grandma and Grandpa.  Saturday morning I ran the Get Lucky 7k race while Jason and my parents started painting.  By the time I got to the house (and a trip to Home Depot) at about 1:45 a huge portion of the house had been primed, along with Jason!  He was quite the site to see!  Just before I got there I had to run to Home Depot and get more primer, I didn't mention to Jason that I had them shake the pails of paint and he decided to stir the paint with his drill attachment.  The drill went full blast spraying about 2 gallons of paint all over the floors, walls, Jason and his sister!  He had to shovel the paint off the floor.

Saturday night we also sprayed the ceilings so that we could start painting the walls Sunday.  We probably should of waited on the ceilings and really let the primer dry but we wanted to get it done.  Sunday morning we got to the house and noticed in most of the corners the painted on the ceilings had cracked from not being dry enough.  We will have to go back and fix those areas.

Sunday was spent putting up tape and plastic/paper all over the ceilings to protect them from the wall paint.  Once the ceilings were protected Jason was able to spray the walls and my parents painted the rooms that are a different color than the main areas.  I continued to tape ceilings since that turned out to be a very lengthy process.

This weekend we accomplished:  Purchasing a paint sprayer, Priming the entire house, painting ceilings, taped ceilings, 2 coats of paint on the main floor, second floor hall, stairway, laundry, and spare bedroom sprayed with 2 coats of paint.  Eli, Mackenzie, Ryan and 2 bathrooms painted with 1 coat of paint using the roller, running a 7k, 4 trips to home depot (atleast), 7 5-gallons buckets of primer, 7 2-gallon buckets of ceiling paint, 7 gallons of paint, 3 5 gallon buckets of main floor/hallway paint, lots of tape, plastic, paper, water, paper towels and fast food.

All suited up and ready to paint

This is Jason's impression of a mime.  The paint suit worked to protect his clothes but not his face or hands!  After his paint explosion he had to ditch the paint suit since it had about a gallon of paint on it.

Lunch break!  Jason's sister Wendy up to help and ended up covered in paint and never touch a paint brush!

Break time

Ceiling time

My dad finally got a chance to use the paint sprayer

Taping off the ceilings

Not another 5 gallon bucket of paint, they are soo heavy

My dad painting Eli's room, the first room to get color in it

Time to wash the painting tools and go to the next room.

My dad painting the master bathroom

My mom did the cutting in along the ceilings and corners

Mackenzie's room

Mom has the special touch of painting nicely along the ceilings, without getting any paint on the ceiling.

Mackenzie's room with 1 coat of paint on it.  The back wall was too cold and the trim paint wouldn't stick to it and needs to be done later.

Ryan's room with 1 coat of paint.  The wall with the window is the only wall that I painted.  My dad couldn't handle my painting anymore before he took the roller away from me, I was too slow for him.

Eli's Room with 1 coat of paint.

Wet, Broken and Dusty

We stopped out at the farm Saturday because both headlights burnt out on the van, and the tools are all out at the farm.  While we were there we discovered water in the garage.  Normally we wouldn't care, but considering we have a lot of stuff stored there and our NEW kitchen cabinets are all out there with our washer and dryer it is a little disheartening.  The boxes for the washer and dryer were in standing water and some of the cabinet boxes were also wet.  We put 2x4's under the boxes to get them all of the floor.  Now we hope and pray that my new kitchen cabinets are not ruined, we didn't open the boxes!

The house is now finished with the sheetrock and is completely taped and plastered.  We spent Sunday vacuuming all the floors and walls to get some of the dust out of the house.  Mackenzie was able to see the guys on stilts while they worked on the ceiling, she thought that was pretty cool, and couldn't figure out how they could do it.

Hammer number 1 broken during the process of pulling old nails out of boards from the old corn crib and house to put under the boxes.

Hammer number 2 broke about 2 minutes after breaking the first hammer!

The broken hammer pile!  We have also broken my friends hammer when we were gathering wood to keep after we first got the house.

Walls being taped and plastered

Dining room and Kitchen.

The new Pella windows!

More Windows, the first floor windows are installed, the rest should be in this week.

Lunch break during our day of vacuuming up sheetrock dust.

Keeping our lungs sheetrock dust free.

The House is Rocking

The insulation inspection was last Wednesday and the sheet rock was delivered that same day.  Thursday the sheet rock started going up and Friday the house was completely sheet rocked!  Mud and tape is this week and then priming starts!  We bought 4, 5 gallons of primer this weekend.  The paint sprayer is next on the list to purchase.  Next week if you need us, we will be busy painting, feel free to volunteer to babysit.

We have sheet rock, and an extension cord with lights!

Ryan claiming his room.  He wrote his name on the floor, Mackenzie wrote her name on her floor also.

The kids checking out the place

Living room where the built in cabinet is going.

Living room from other end

Kitchen, looking into dining area

Laundry room

Guest bedroom

Guest room closet

Master bedroom

Master bedroom, bathroom and closet

Going up to the third floor

Mackenzie's room

Ryan's room

Ryan's room

Stairway going down to first floor

Just hanging out.