Painting a room

Never painted a room before, so today is a first. With labor day weekend without major plans, finally decided to suck it up and paint the rooms we've been wanting to.

This project took a lot of time mainly deciding on color. We moved into our condo in April, and didn't decide on room color until September. Ya. I think that is the toughest part. You're putting it on in an entire room, so it's hard to visualize until it's actually up.

We were pretty sure we wanted green, just not sure the shade. We finally chose Valspar Lyndhurst Celadon Green with an eggshell finish. It looked good on a sample square on the wall, so we sucked it up and said "GO". Now that the first coat is up, I'm thinking it would have been ok to go darker with the whole room, but it looks good for now.

The second part was buying the paint supplies. We were pretty loyal to our tools once we started painting, so I don't think it's necessary to buy a whole bunch of different type brushes. Husband uses the foam brush. I used an angled brush. We both wielded the large roller. Although my favorite tool is the mini roller. So easy to use and so effective. That was all we needed really.

Then night before we prepped the room by washing the walls, taking off the outlet face plate and putting on painter's tape. It comes off a lot so we should have opted for the scotch stuff instead of generic. Then in the morning we put the tarps down and started!

I LOVED painting the sample squares so I thought it would be pretty simple painting the whole room. As cliche as it is, it does take longer than you think. Also me being out of shape, it got pretty tiring. Unfortunately we had to take the curtains down so the sun was beating down on us on one wall while we were painting. Definitely recommend taking that into consideration next time, sun spots.

We're finished the first coat in about two hours with lots of breaks. Second coat still to come. We had lunch and some family obligations, so we may attempt the second coat tonight or tomorrow.

There is one more room to paint, the master, so we're not sure if we'll tackle that this weekend or another. At least we should have 1 room done end of weekend. I'm feeling ambitious and want to do both rooms this weekend. I want to take advantage of our Monday off. We may not get another painting chance until who knows when?

So here's an "in progress" photo. See how light the green looks. It's not that light though. It's a bit darker in person. Anyhow I actually enjoy painting despite how much work it is. Yeay for new things! I just hope we can get it all done soon :)