Progress

While I haven't made progress on posting more often I have made progress on one project that was put on hold over a year ago. After we moved into this house I spent a month painting many of the rooms of the house but there were a few that we either didn't know what we wanted to do with or we just ran out of time. One project that was a victim of the lack of time was our dining room. Well now that I am done with school I am finally getting back to it.

After painting stripes in our home office we had this great crazy idea to paint our dining room 4 different colors and creating pinstripes. I have only take pictures through part of the project and I am not finished but almost....here is the progress in pictures.


The bottom was painted Valspar's Crunch Granola

I decided to do the burgundy as the base color on the top which ended up being good idea later on.

After 2 heavy coats of burgundy I began taping, measuring, taping, measuring and taping some more. I little paint trick I learned when painting our office is once you have the tape on the wall you need to paint the base color over the tape to seal the tape and keep the next color from bleeding through.

Yes, I can tell that I missed some spots.

This was the first color blue. Yes, I said first color. I got all the way through 2 coats and then Scott and I looked at it and determined that it wasn't dark enough.

I have since painted the darker blue and then taped again to paint gold pinstripes. The tape is sealed I just need to paint the gold. Once it is done I will post the final pictures.