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Happy Wednesday! How's your week been?
We're moving along at the speed of light! I've only had 3 complete meltdowns related to the wedding planning; For me that's good. 
Painting and decorating our kitchen. That' what you do when you can't remodel 
Paint is a miracle from God waiting in a can for us to claim!
Do you like to paint? What's your biggest success and/or WOW factor from painting?
I'm off to get more paint  Have a great week!
Love,
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I NEED to do some more painting! The downstairs of my house is really nice; upstairs, where the children live, is a Third World country.
I don't like to paint much, and the last time we painted, we paid someone to do it, so that it wouldn't take six months. And I don't know that the result was WOW, though I really love it. I like calm, neutral walls -- my *stuff* is plenty colorful, so I think of the walls as a canvas against which things show up. When we painted our downstairs, we used basically two neutrals: Benjamin Moore's Jute, which on our walls reads much grayer and greener than the swatch looks on my computer screen. I mostly see it as a grayed taupe, but a friend of mine swears it's sage green. It's light but not nonexistent on the walls, and people have commented on how pretty it is. Icons show up beautifully on it!
We used Linen White rather than a "true" white for the trim, and the effect is really nice and warm. My kitchen and dining room are also Linen White, walls and trim, which plays up details like the dining-room chair rail and wainscoting. The dining room had been a green so dark it was almost black, which made it a total cave -- it's a north-facing room which receives no direct sun -- so I *love* the lightness of it now. In dimmed light or candlelight, the walls look golden. In the kitchen, we had had old striped/vine-patterned wallpaper which was also really dreary. I love the clean, light, warm "cottage" look now!
We also had most of our interior doors painted a dark taupey gray called Iron Gate rather than white.
So our color scheme, in terms of the walls, is basically cream with shades of taupe, which sounds boring! But I love it. It's peaceful and warm, which is nice when life gets too chaotic. And as random things from my mother's old house make their way here -- rugs, pictures, pieces of furniture -- I don't have to worry that they're going to clash with the walls, which is a huge plus!
So obviously I'm not planning a wedding and have WAY more leisure to bang on about things like this! I am impressed that you're gittin' er done, meltdowns or no meltdowns!
Our week in reality has just been kind of laid back. No painting. Not much school. Waiting for the college girl to come home on Sunday! That's about it!
Sally
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I really love the colors from Farrow and Ball, and while I'm convinced they are right--that their paint is special and color-matching it isn't the same, I have had good luck color-matching their paint from the sample brochure I have. I have found that limiting my color choices to their palette rather than the wall of choices that conventional brands offer is freeing 
Painting some of the main living spaces was among the first things we did that made our new house finally feel like home Much of it was renter's white when we bought it and very cold. Our trim color sounds a lot like Sally's and really warmed things up!
We do have a lot of unfinished paint projects in our house, and while my dh is amazingly handy, he really hates painting, and I can't blame him for perpetually procrastinating. Just this morning we discussed hiring the painter he recently hired for the offices at work, deciding how much we could afford, hiring him for x number of hours, and just making a list of paint projects in order of priority.
For instance, the built-in quad bunks dh built for the boys are amazing, but painting is a CHORE. It took me HOURS to prime and dh's attempt at a first coat gave him a migraine because it is such a dark color and extra smelly. 
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Not into paint this week. Though I love having time to do "eraser" work (paint over the marks and stains) on my hall walls especially.
We're sewing this week. Running high gear into our first Black Powder Rendezvous (mountain man era reenacting) in barely over a week.
Lots of letting down/out hems in skirts and pants.. and yikes! unless we can find the missing shirts.. we need to make one of my sons 2 shirts on top of needing another shirt for my dh and a few things for the girls. And of course if we have any time.. sewing things to sell.
We just have the ending picnic for cubscouts and an all day lacrosse tournaments this week as well.
Oh and we talked to another contractor (really liked working with this one) so once we get his bid, I'm really thinking we'll go with him and then need to get info from him for the bank and an appraisal and see if it'll all work out. 
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My favorite painting thus far has been the 9 foot tree I painted on my living room wall. It's losing leaves so it looks great in autumn... a bit out of season the rest of the year.
Painting it was highly cathartic however, though my children watched me in concerned surprise: "Is she ALLOWED to paint on the wall?!"
I consider it a rough draft now since I want more color in the living room... it's set to be a cadet or slate blue and then maybe I'll do another crazy tree on top of that...
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Dh has finally had some time off, but no painting has happened because though it is high on my agenda, it ranks very low on dh's list. And now it looks like we may have found our acreage, so the only painting in the immediate future will be touch-up painting to prepare our current home for selling!  I think there will be little done in the new place until things settle, as much as I would like to go in and complete all our ideas for the place while it is empty. An opportunity to practice patience. 
So we are doing heavy purging this week, along with the usual school stuff and chores. The purging was part of the get-ready-for-baby plan anyway, but it has an additional purpose now. It will end abruptly tomorrow as we have outside activities to pull us away, and then the girls and I are traveling for a weekend of horse showing while the boys go to their grandparents' and dh heads back to work.
I will be drooling over the Farrow and Ball palette, thanks Lindsay!
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Epic paint win with changing a completely red bathroom....dark, brick red on the walls and ceiling of a tiny, tiny bathroom.....pow, out of there and replaced with a soft buttery color...ahhh...I can’t believe we had lived with it for a few years after moving. It went from a cave to a pretty bathroom.
My Wednesday has been a bit rough...found out I need surgery on both legs for severe venous insufficiency.....which means I have awful varicose veins that are causing my legs to swell a lot and change the color of the skin.  Not good when the docs walk in looking concerned after a 90 min. ultrasound vein study. The good news is it is an hour long outpatient procedure. I am going for skinny ankles again!!! I am actually going to prevent myself from becoming the old lady with leg ulcers.  I should only be hobbling around for a few days.
The rest of the week is looking quite fun with a film festival tomorrow night, and lots of fun this weekend! Woohoo!! Skinny ankles, fun weekends, that’s all I need to get me through Wednesdays!!
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Oh, painting! I lost my first half of the school year to painting our main level. It dragged on and on. Sally, I would love to pay someone next time, but I know dh will never do that.
I used to do the painting, but it's too hard to squeeze it in with such willing but younger helpers. We did not finish the bathroom, closet and mud room, so that will be this summer, with some touch-ups in various places.
I only choose pale hues, as I find them relaxing. I have a buttercream in the kitchen and family room (they flow together). My living room/dining room also flow, and the dining room has a chair rail. I matched the existing drapes to have a sea foam and then a darker green below. The hallway also has a chair rail, and we did a blue/grey and slate blue. Those aren't the names...I did some matching from some of Martha Stewart colors. I'd love the colors of Benjamin Moore and Farrow and Ball. Upstairs I'll figure out the comparisons.
I need to do something with my kitchen cabinets. I had figured on painting them white (old honey oak from 80s), but feedback from different people says it degrades so easily. I was thinking maybe sanding and oiling might be better.
I do prefer the look of wood than painted wood. But it's a huge project and being on the mend with another lung thing, it seems OVERWHELMING to say the least. I think we might wait until next year.
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Our house's interior needs repainting...we've been here 7 years this time and our walls show it. But, it looks like we'll need to replace a car this summer (DH's car, our Fiesta, is great, but the next-newest car has 97K miles and it's a hybrid. DH is worried about the $8,000 battery failing). I find car shopping to be extremely stressful.
Dancing Daughter WON her competition last weekend!!!! She was overjoyed, and we were not surprised at all because she has been working so hard to improve every element of her dance steps.
But...she has a lot of ankle pain right now. Prayers are appreciated as I go to bat for her tomorrow and try to get a referral, which we could not get last week.
St. Joseph prayers, too, please, while you're at it. Our son has his first job interview of the summer tomorrow afternoon at 2:00. The job is ideal, 5 minutes away at a clean, well-run grocery store.
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JennGM wrote:
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Have you heard of Howard Restor-a-finish? I have not used it but plan to try it on some older, abused pieces of furniture in the house and perhaps even our floor!
When I was searching for examples of its use, I came across this post, and I have read in other places, maybe even the company website, that you can go darker if you want a different color finish than what you have.
I prefer the look of painted cabinets, but the longer I live with the knotty pine in our office and family room, the more I appreciate how much easier it is to maintain than paint. My cabinets are metal and repainted a few times before I inherited them to boot (they were originally a pretty pale turquoise, which might have been fun to work with, but oh well), so paint was really my only course of action. It is frustrating how easily it chips, but I have also heard good things about newer paints designed specifically for painting wood cabinets, and that could be different from the experiences of those attempting to do it with regular paints.
Also, years ago, my SIL sent her doors to a cabinet shop to be professionally sprayed and then just did the frames herself. That could be a more satisfactory option than doing it all yourself and still much more affordable than replacing them altogether.
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JennGM wrote:
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Me too. It is frustrating to have to feel as though one is nagging dh to do it when you would just as soon do it yourself if you could.
Plus, dh doesn't know how good he has it. When HE does projects, everyone is magically hydrated and fed while he continues to work.
The interruptions when doing something like that are terribly frustrating, and the guilt of putting everyone in front of the television for hours on end is even worse
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