Paint, Paint, and More Paint

All that's happened in the last 10 days at our home on the Lane is paint. Exterior paint, interior paint. Trim paint. Cabinet paint.  Primer and finish paint. Paint, paint, paint.

It took over a week for the painters to enamel all the trim, doors, and cabinets and it still isn't completely finished.  And since most of those things were already primed in white, taking photos doesn't really show you much. However, the walls were finally painted yesterday and today, so those I can show you.  Here's the main color in the house:

It's just a basic neutral that's reads pretty warm so we think it will be a nice contrast to the white trim.  You can actually see in some of these photos that the paint was still wet when visited the house today.  The kids had to be reminded about ten trillion times to stand in the middle of the room and not to touch anything.

There is a secondary color we chose for the master bedroom, master bathroom, office, and powder room, which is a little darker and richer feeling, without being too dark and heavy.  Again, the paint is still wet here, so that's why it looks splotchy on the walls.

And that's pretty much the update for the last 10 days or so.  Well, that and the fact that painting is messy.  Check out the disastrous state the house is currently in:

Kitchen zone--tons of leftover food and beverage containers, plus equipment.

Dining area.  The floor is the hardwood floor, covered with the mauve paper which has now been covered in paint.  We are crossing our fingers that when the paper is removed, the floors underneath are in good shape because there is a LOT of paint there.

The hallway/foyer/stairway.  Pretty impossible to maneuver around all of this.

Tomorrow the painters will cut in around the ceiling (I'm sure you noticed in the above photos that hasn't been finished yet), and clean up this mess.  We can't wait to have our windows back.  It's so dreary inside with the windows being covered both on the interior and the exterior.  Again, you could see that in some of the photos.

See how dark it seems at 4pm with the windows all covered?

 We move in exactly one week from tomorrow and today the builders assured us they are on track.  Seems impossible with the current state of the house and how much is left to be done, but we're hopeful it will happen!