Remodeling The Home Place

Well, it was time for the 1983 yellow and gold to go! If you know me, you know pastels are not going to stick around too long. First I started painting the walls "Woodrow Wilson Putty", that was nice, but against the yellow, well it looked kind of lavender! Not good! So, next I thought, well maybe I can paint the brown trim white, that will help.

If you ever think of doing that, let me just tell you, you are in for a bunch of work because you probably think, "This won't take long. How long could it take? Those are just little pieces of wood." Well, what I didn't calculate was painting everyting with primer (2 coats because I wanted to do a really thorough job.) Then I wanted to paint everything again with two coats of paint. Of course you have to tape everything off so you don't make a big mess. Thankfully later I bought a really good brush and was able to paint so well that I did not have to tape too much.

Aha! More yellow! It has to go! I painted all of the cupboards in the house a country green. (Read next entry) Of course the counter top had to go along with the floor. Well, that took awhile too! But we are so happy with the way things turned out. Needless to say, this took about three months of continuous work. I painted so long, my fingers seemed to be frozen around a brush. We changed out the doors and lights, carpet, flooring, mop board. Terry did a great job on the mop board, now it is all white and looks so nice!

Well, this is how how it looked during the process.