Now we're making progress...

During the past two days of renovation, Mike and I have both felt this overwhelming sense that... well, nothing was happening.

We were priming, tearing down wallpaper, cleaning up... but the house wasn't really changing. It was getting hard to visualize this project ending...

Until today.

Yes! Now it feels like we're making progress.

We chose the Behr Premium Paint + Primer. We figured it was the best choice to combat all of the awkward color combinations in the house already. This, plus Kilz, should be a winning combo. Below are the colors we picked (the swatches are from Google Images and may be a little inaccurate).

FYI, Roman Plaster is a LOT lighter in real life.

So ...we started by trying to pick the color for the accent wall in the master bedroom.

Since we decided that the color of this accent wall would also be the color of the kitchen, this choice was a hard one. We decided that the left color (Behr Blue Agave) would be great for the bedroom, and the right color (Behr Caribe) would be better in the kitchen.

 Before we got started painting, we handled the gross task of changing the air filter. It seems that this one hadn't been changed in at least 2 years. We have probably been inhaling plenty of gross, and semi-harmful germs a dust particles... but that's OK.

That's pretty gnarly, huh?

We started in the rooms that don't have lights installed yet, so that we could take advantage of the natural light while we had it.

The first coat of Roman Plaster in the guestroom.

That meant testing just how well the Behr paint covered up the baby blue and navy guest room walls... and I have to say, we probably will be able to get away with one coat in most places. I'll try to get a better picture of this when we paint one of the darker rooms.

Next up was priming the horrible Gothic-style bathroom. We were both really excited to NEVER see this strange wall treatment ever again. But with as many weird patch jobs as there are in this house, we should have known it wasn't going to be as simple as slapping some Kilz up on the walls. This is what was behind the mirror...

I don't even understand why...

We find ourselves asking the question "Why did they DO this?" over and over, every day. There are so many strange things in this house. This is no exception. But even though we now have to patch that up with a piece of drywall, we were so happy to get rid of that paint.

Even if we left it like this, it would be better than it was.

After that was done, we decided to call it a night. We ended up finishing all of our priming and 2/3 bedrooms upstairs. Pretty good even though we got kind of a late start.