Yesterday my boss came by to help a couple hours in between his busy Sat. schedule. He thought the living room looked quite big and hubby would need a lot of time painting it. So this morning we thought we might just finish the living room today, and hubby will paint the dining room/den later in the week. We didn't go over until 11am, and wondered how long it would take us.
Today I started with the lower parts that are more accessible for me, and hubby painted the upper half of the living room walls. Then the kids helped with the lower half of the main dining room wall.
When I worked on the other side of the wall, I wondered how to pay tribute to this very red color of the walls, so I decided to do flower print that retains some of the red colors.
Curious to see how the flowers turn out after the paint dries later. Hubby said if they don't look good we'll paint over, but I really hope they do so we'll have a trace of the red there!
Surprisingly, we finished the first coat in both living room and den, and some of the second coat in the living room by 3:15pm. So we sat down to eat a bit and kept going. At this point, I found that rolling up and down the paint roller with body moving up and kneeling down for hours was actually a lot of exercise for various parts of the body. I started trying to do half walls again but simply did not have the energy to lift up my body and the roller so high any more, so I tried to help patching up certain places, but didn't do a good job there either. The poor hubby thus had to do the second half of the second coating himself but all is done before 5pm ^_^
This color is chosen for us to feel warm during the long rainy and cloudy months. Yesterday when the nice friend came over she suggested that the living room and dining room should have different shades of peachy color. When we were working today, it was obvious that with the light changing from the east to west from morning to afternoon, the living room facing east and the den facing west would get different light exposure throughout the way. This way, even when they are of the same color tone, the two rooms look different in color shade during daylight time.
After washing the rollers etc., we went to get haircuts, all of us having paint in the hair. The hairdresser's house has bunnies, and we had fun playing with them when waiting for our turn.
Nice warm summer day is officially here!
Surprisingly, we finished the first coat in both living room and den, and some of the second coat in the living room by 3:15pm. So we sat down to eat a bit and kept going. At this point, I found that rolling up and down the paint roller with body moving up and kneeling down for hours was actually a lot of exercise for various parts of the body. I started trying to do half walls again but simply did not have the energy to lift up my body and the roller so high any more, so I tried to help patching up certain places, but didn't do a good job there either. The poor hubby thus had to do the second half of the second coating himself but all is done before 5pm ^_^
After washing the rollers etc., we went to get haircuts, all of us having paint in the hair. The hairdresser's house has bunnies, and we had fun playing with them when waiting for our turn.
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