What a difference a coat of paint makes

This weekend was another busy weekend at the house. My father-in-law has been in town for almost 2 weeks, and he has helped out with the painting. Ok, who am I kidding, he has done the majority of the painting. Painting in general is not a small task, but when you are painting the entire house, it's a HUGE task. We did have a bit of a hiccup with the paint, so lets just say that we all will be happy when it's all finished.


This is what the kitchen looked like when we bought the house. After this week, this is what it looks like now....


Sorry I didn't get the same picture of it, but you get the jist of it. The blue goes all the way around the kitchen behind the appliances and to the ceiling. The color combination turned out better than we thought it would.

Here's the other side of the kitchen. Notice the stack of hard wood that is sitting in it?? That project will hopefully start sometime this week.




This was the upstairs sitting room when we bought the house. After some love and a little bit of color, this is what it looks like now...

Amazing what a little color will do to lighten up an area isn't it? This color is really bright, but it offsets the two kitchen colors and the entry way color very nicely. Speaking of entry way...


Remember this awful looking entry way?? Well you should see it now....


This is what it looks like after one coat of paint. We still need to put on the second coat. Remember that paint hiccup I mentioned earlier...well that is pretty much what we have been dealing with through out this entire process. Oh well, what's one going to do about it???

See how nicely the colors set each other off. Like my mom always said, it's amazing what a new coat of paint can do for a room. Looks totally different doesn't it???

Of course we couldn't forget about the bathrooms that were upstairs. This is the secondary bathroom. For those of you who have been following all this progress, you will remember that we couldn't see to get this toilet to stop leaking. Well as of today, I have good news. It is FINALLY fixed!! I was afraid that we were going to have to buy a whole new toilet, especially since I had head the rumblings of taking it out back and blowing it up a few times. But this is what it looked like originally. Here's the new and updated look....


I do believe that trading the pinky color for this purple was the right thing to do.

Here's the master bathroom, before we signed the deed for the house....

Here is what it looks like today. We decided that since our room was so dark, it would be a good idea to go with a lighter color for the bathroom. I know gray can be dark, but it sets off the green very nicely.

So this has been a very busy week and weekend. We owe most of the progress to family and friends that have been so generous with their time to come out and lend a hand where ever they were needed. It's because of them that we have made as much progress as we have. Life is good and we are blessed. So to all of those who have helped, we say thank you. If it weren't for you, not all of this would be done.