Painting the Master Bathroom

As you know I have prepped our master bathroom for paint. Now that it is all set to go, I got right to it. I decided to go with Lighthouse Shadows by Valspar, it is the color of our master bedroom. I had a bunch left over from painting our room, so I thought that would be a good choice. Since we will eventually be demoing this entire room, I didn’t want to purchase new paint. Here is what I started with…

Here is what we have now…

I love that it makes the bathroom feel like a continuation of our bedroom now…

I unfortunately did not get any photos of the painting process, but I do have some before and afters!

I also put a fresh coat of white paint on all the doors…

We still have big plans for this bathroom, but for now it feels a lot cleaner in here. I still need to do some more caulking and I would like to hang some art and change a couple other things. Thanks for reading folks!

I Sweat Paint

I spent my weekend painting…. everything in the second guest bedroom.  Last I shared the guestroom was looking something like this…

It was still looking not so pretty in pink.  It was time to finally put some fresh paint on these walls and trim. I started with the trim as usual and used good old white in a gloss finish.  I know I had planned on using a shade of light purplish grayish, with possibly even a hint of pink for the walls, but I changed my mind.  I guess I am not as decisive as I thought.  Most of the office inspiration photos I am digging right now look like these…

and my favorite…

I guess I am kinda into a neutral office at this point.  I was thinking if I put a purple color on the wall that I would hate it.  So I decided to go with something more along the lines of the whitish, tanish in these photos.  I ended up using Paramount White by Valspar.  I started edging in as usual…

Charlie helped…

Next I rolled the color on the rest of the walls…

I know it looks pretty white, but I promise it is not!

Once I was done with all of the walls the ceiling was really looking pretty rough.  Once I took the border down and lightened the walls the ceiling was looking so dingy and all the paint mistakes were really sticking out.

I definitely wasn’t planning to paint the ceiling, but I felt like I needed to now. I am a virgin to painting ceilings, I knew I was in for a treat. So I headed back to lowes and got some of this…

It is Valspar flat ceiling paint that goes on purple, but dries white.  My mom told me about this paint and said that it helps to keep track of where you have already painted.  I also picked up one of these…

Since our ceilings are pretty textured I needed a better roller that would soak up more paint and get into all of the crazy crevices.

I then cleared the room out and made sure I covered everything with tarps, I know splattering is a big issue when painting a ceiling.

I also had Justin remove the fan and vent from the ceiling.

The purple in the paint really did help out when applying the paint. Here is what the paint looks like when I opened the can…

I really needed to give it a good stir before I started.

I used my usual method of edging first and rolling second.

I really didn’t think painting the ceiling would make too much of a difference and then I looked at the dried edging that I had just painted…

Look at that!

Is that not a crazy difference or what?  I guess I didn’t know just how dingy the ceiling was.

From there it was time to start rolling.  When I went to look for my roller someone had stolen it…

He’s such a little thief.

Once I got my roller back I went to town…

See the purple-ness?

This was quite the job, it really took a toll on my neck and I also had splattered paint all over my face, thank goodness for hats and glasses. Here is my room now, with every surface freshly painted.

The ceiling still has a purple hue to it in this photo because it wasn’t quite dry yet.  Can’t wait to get going on other updates in here!

House Floor Plan and Paint Colors

I found this pretty cool website that allows you to make a floor plan of your own house.  I could have spent hours on there adding all of my furniture and belongings, you can even view the finished product in 3D.  I thought it would be cool to share this floor plan with you, so it makes it easier to understand the set up we have going on.  Here is what I came up with…

It’s kind of hard to read all of those tiny words, if you click the photo it will enlarge it slightly.  Here is the 3D version….

and if you spin the house around…

The last 3D version is with the front of the house facing forward, in case your confused.  I love that I was able to add the flooring, paint colors and even appliances.  You can go all out and add furniture and decorations, but I didn’t really wanna take it that far.  Try out this website, I’m pretty sure you’ll get addicted too.

I also wanted to share where we’re at with paint colors in our house.  I have noticed that we tend to lean towards cooler colors, like grays and blues.  The only rooms we have not painted are the master bathroom and the first guest room(the one closest to the front of the house).  Here goes nothing.

Living Room – Milestone by Valspar

Kitchen – Milestone by Valspar

Master Bedroom – Lighthouse Shadows by Valspar

Laundry Room – Tibetan Mist by Valspar

Guest Bathroom – Sweet Slumber by Valspar

Guest Bedroom #2 – Bay Waves by Valspar

Dining Room – Lyndhurst Castle Sand by Valspar

Office – Lyndhurst Castle Sand by Valspar

I love some of these names, like sweet slumber and lighthouse shadows.  Although Valspar has tricked me with their color exchange guarantee, we still use their paint products.  This is because 1. we lovvve Lowe’s and 2. they cover well and turn out looking great.

Hey what can I say?  I love painting!

Painting the Guest Bath

I haven’t had enough painting just yet, I had the urge to paint something else last weekend.  That something ended up being the guest bathroom, which started off looking like this…

and

I really didn’t mind the color at all, but I had already painted our master bedroom blue and the guest room is now a gray with a hint of blue.  I think I need to throw some more shades in the mix.  I decided to go with my favorite color, green!  I stopped at Lowe’s and grabbed a gallon of a color that I thought would work well.  I came home and went to work.  As I got going just a few swipes in, I realized how close the color I chose was to the color in living room.  It was more of a light tan with a hint of green.  I was so disappointed that I didn’t get samples and try them out first like I usually do.  Unfortunately, I did not take a picture of this color on the walls, I know I suck(sorry).  I definitely didn’t want to use this color, I wanted something different.  So, off to Lowe’s I went.  I tried to return the paint to get another gallon, but the lady at customer service told me since the paint was already tinted I was unable to return it.  I don’t know if you have seen the commercials with the two chameleons that decide the Valspar color they chose to paint there chameleon home just wasn’t quite right.  They then discuss that Lowe’s will allow you to return the paint no questions asked if your not happy with the color. WELL, it’s not as easy as they make it seem.  Apparently you have to buy the color that you like better, then paint one half of a wall the first color you purchased and the other half of the wall the new color you would rather have.  Then you take a photo and mail it to Valspar corporate with the receipt and THEN they will reimburse you.  It really seemed like a hassle and not my cup of tea to go through painting the wall and taking pictures and mailing them in.  Fortunately the girl at the counter also gave me the wrong type of paint.  I basically wanted the paint that came in the white Valspar gallon and she gave me the blue.  Really not that big of a deal, but I let the lady know that and she said since I received the wrong type of paint they could refund the amount.  Anyway,  I chose another color and brought it home and painted our little guest bathroom.  To be honest I’m not totally sold on this color either.

It looks very yellow in these photos but it is actually green.

I would however like something a little greener and maybe bolder.  This is just kind of boring.  I will live with it for the time being and maybe try to dress it up with some art or decorations(who knows.)  I am not sure at this point.

Hey who’s that? And those are some fancy work clothes!

Welp, there it is.  The room that I am unsure about still.  It will do for the time being I suppose.  I’ll tell ya what though, it feels a lot cleaner with a fresh coat of paint.

P.S. Justin likes the color, so that’s a bonus.