We painted my room, Melissa’s room, the kid’s room and the bedroom all this weekend. We first coated all of them on Saturday and then Melissa and I came back and put the second coat on everything Sunday. Saturday, Bucky started by taping off everyone’s ceilings and trim and as he finished taping a room someone started painting it. Melissa’s room got taped first and she painted it. She’s using two colors for hers. One set of opposite walls is one color and the other two walls are the other color and I think the trim is reversed. I was having trouble getting a picture that showed her colors accurately. They’re somewhere between the two pictures. Bucky taped off my room next. The first coat worried me a little. It didn’t seem to cover at all. But after the second coat on Sunday it was fine. While Melissa and I were putting the first coat on our rooms, Bucky taped off the kid’s room and the bedroom. Four rooms and four people meant the kid got to paint her room by herself while Bucky knocked out the first coat on our bedroom. Well, the kid didn’t exactly exactly paint her room by herself….her friend Ian came over and helped. Those two have some interesting painting techniques. Bucky filled in the gaps for them after he finished our room and then I did the second coat on Sunday while Melissa did the second coat on the bedroom. Actually Melissa did the edging on the kid’s second coat while I did some touchups on the living room and did the base coat on the inside of the linen cabinet.

We’re down to the front entryway (which we have paint for but won’t attack until the front door is replaced) and all the trim, floorboards, door frames and doors. None of that will be done until the floors are in, which are supposed to be installed the first half of this week. We also still have to do the pantry, coat closet, Melissa’s new closet in her room, and finish the linen closet.