Thursday, March 31, 2011

I used to like painting. . .

I've been painting. Surprise!

I finished painting the trim in the hall and entry. I had to make a lot of repairs before I could start painting. The trim was really battered and the bottoms of the door jambs looked like this

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Now they look like this

Door Jamb - After

I filled the gaps with grout and then caulked. Certainly not great, but at least the kids can't put things in the holes anymore.


I painted the linen closet

Linen Closet - After

And Winnie's closet

Winnie's Room - Closet Wall

I just need to finish painting the doors to offically be done with the paint in Winnie's room. I'm painting the hallway side of all my doors gray--a darker shade of the color on the walls.

Door Paint

I painted one door and then decided that it wasn't quite dark enough so I had the paint retinted today. I might get the doors done this weekend, but since the weather is supposed to be so nice, we're going to work in the yard. Maybe the kids will get to jump on our trampoline.

Our Trampoline

See it there sticking up above the dirt? Matt started to dig the hole out and this is what we found

Trampoline Hole Fill

Hardened 80 lb bags or mortar. They totally fill the hole and start about 6 inches down. That will be hours of trampoline fun.

3 comments:

Kim said...

I can't believe you painted inside the closets!!! Blah, I have painting ADD and the less I have to do the better! I LOVE the colors though! The people really but like cement in the trampoline hole???? REALLY?

Rachel Quesada said...

LOVE the gray color. Super sophisticated. You are doing such an incredible job on the house. Matt sure did good in marrying you!

Julianna said...

hahaha i didn't think of that, you are behind i guess, not that it matters though. I love watching your blog and seeing your house come along. You are so talented.