Day 55 and 56: Paint Ceiling and Walls

(Thursday June 30, 2011)

Now that the drywall is more or less repaired, time to paint and install cabinets. Our kitchen ceiling is smooth finished drywall (the rest of the house is that spray on popcorn stuff) so we wanted it to look good. We couldn't agree on the location of the ceiling light fixtures (in fact we hadn't bought them yet either), so we ended up temporarily removing both of them and repairing the holes. We decided to try some new high-tech pink ceiling paint that was supposed to go in pink and dry white with a matte finish. 

It's more of a purplish colour, and it really does work. My only complaint is that the pinkishness goes away very quicky as it drys, so when you're painting it looks terrible since some of drys faster than other bits leaving a streaky pink/white pattern. I put on a second coat of paint before all of the pink had faded and I went to bed that night thinking I'd wasted my evening and money, but the next morning, the ceiling looked great.

Day 56: Paint Walls

(Friday July 1, 2011)

So here's the result (and Garden Girl painting the inside wall the colour of the rest of our main floor).

 The plan now is to start installing cabinets on this wall while continuing to paint the rest of the room.