Paint, Paint, Paint

My Labor Day weekend included some interesting items. My goal of the weekend was to be able to park my car in the garage. Well Ben had other plans. Needless to say my car is still in the drive way. But we are getting closer to organizing the chaos. I will say that he did work on the garage for a little while then came in and said I want to paint the kitchen. Well ok! So on Sunday after Ben went to work and I took Isabelle to Instant Care, we were one our way to Home Depot.

Instant Care, what, you say. Early on Sunday she was complaining that her head and neck hurt on her left side a lot. Now Isabelle has a pretty high pain tolerance and does not complain all that much, but this time she was really whiny. And would just not stop, it seemed that if she moved her head she would complain. I did not want to take two kids into the store to get Tylenol so I called Ben, and left a message for him to pick some up. Well he did not get home soon enough. Instead of taking two kids to the store I went to Instant Care, (Ben did come and pick up Bear) only to find out that the doctor had no clue what could be wrong, and to give her some Tylenol or Motrin. Long story short that’s what we did and she seems to be doing better were just watching her.

Back to my home improvement project, now painting our kitchen is an undertaking because of what we do to the walls. Essentially, the process is three coats of paint; the base color, top coat and the lines. As you can imagine the base coat does not take too long, just the taping does so nobody makes too big of a mistake. We got the base coat done on Sunday and waited until it had dried to start on the top coat. Early on Monday we got started on the top coat. This takes a little longer only because you do not roll on this layer you brush it on. I would say a couple of hours, because it does not have to be covered completely. Then we start the lines, after Ben has drawn them on. This all together is very tedious and takes forever, at least one full day, working with two people. Finally after dinner on Tuesday we were able to complete the lines. Yea! Our kitchen is now complete.

Ben says now it feels like home. He was so funny, like a kid in a candy store, he was so excited to start and complete this project. At last it is now completed and I can slowly put stuff away. This paint treatment is by far our favorite. We always get tons of compliments and Ben’s oldest sister even copied it and put it in her house, not once but twice. How’s that for a compliment? Anyway, I hope you enjoy our “new” kitchen be sure to check it out in person.