Moving Prep: Painting

The mud brown and dark red colors we wish to paint over.
The colors are lighter than original due to large amount of light when the photo was taken. 

After a very cool and rainy June and a rainy first July weekend, it brightens up and the usual summer weather is here: sunny and bright, highs in the 17-22°C, and lows in the 11-13°C. Lucky for us because we need to paint over the dark colors in the house before moving  during the 2nd or 3rd week of July. This weather makes it easier for the paint to dry.

This morning we picked up a friend and her two younger children on the way to start painting. She had to teach me how to expose the rollers to paint so it's even and not dripping. She help for 2.5 hrs and we took the kids to the playground across the grass where her hubby picked them up.  Her youngest 2 are similar in age to mine so that was nice for them to play together. Her children are of mixed descent and they have full curly brown hair and beautiful features.

Since it's a rental home, hubby doesn't feel like painting it, but I cannot live with the dark and gloomy colors during the rainy winter months. I chose all warm colors. There are 4 spaces that need painting over: master bedroom (originally dark grey), kitchen (dark red), dining room -- we'll use it as a den and study -- (dark red), and living room (mud brown). Thank goodness the landlord will paint the two smaller rooms that have black and green chalk board for a wall each.

Today's progress: we coated 2 layers of serene peach color over the dark master bedroom walls -- it took more than 1 gallon because the dark absorbed lots of paint; we coated 1.5 layers of kitchen walls in wildflower honey color and hopefully there's not a lot to make up tomorrow.

Master Bedroom Walls Before

Master Bedroom Walls After

In the middle of the getting to the edge of painting the kitchen wildflower honey, we found it very hard to paint the small corners between stuff. 

Tomorrow we're going to tackle the big living room brown walls. Hopefully the kids can apply the first coat on the lower half of the walls in both living room and dining room and we'll get through at least a second coat in the living room.