Let the painting commence

Yesterday I started work on the fourth and final bedroom that needs painting.  I had to wait until the foster kids were gone to be able to paint this one; the time has finally arrived and I can work on it uninterrupted.

But only for 3 days - I have to return to the home/house on Thursday for a doctor appointment.  But after that, I think I'm good to work for a couple more weeks before I take a break for the holidays.

Yesterday I broke down the cribs, moved out some mattresses that are waiting to turn into a bed, vacuumed and spent over 3 hours deglossing the molding.  Today I can start painting.  Finally!

Below are some "before" photos - note: the current wall color looks totally different in several photos.  It's so hard to capture an accurate portrayal of a paint color in a photo - the indoor and outdoor lighting can change its appearance so dramatically.

Although the pics look different, it IS the same room in all the pics, despite the appearance of the different wall color variations.

The color is sort of a gray/brown - like a taupe, I guess - and the paint is flat and matte.  It's hard for me to imagine a color I like less.

This is probably the pic with the most accurate depiction of what the current color looks like.

The color looks a little more brown in these photos.

The current wall color.

Here again is the color palette I chose for the house.  (1970s!)

Of the 3 bedrooms I've finished painting, I have one in the second shade on each strip.

For this fourth and last bedroom, I decided to go with the lavender shade once more.

"Corsage," the second shade on this strip is supposed to be the color of the first bedroom I painted - the master bedroom - if you remember that story.  (It began with my arriving home and discovering I had two different colors in my paint cans that were supposed to be the same...a discovery I made halfway through the job.)

It will be interesting to see what the actual color really looks like (!) and how it compares to the first room I painted.

I expect this room to take me a full 7 days - it takes 4 or 5 coats to cover the dark molding, and it will only take 1 coat per day.  I'm also doing the inside of the closet which has lots of little shelves to paint around.  So by the end of next week this room should be finished.

I'm excited to get started, and I've got "David Copperfield" downloaded from hoopla to keep me company.  It's a 36-hour audiobook so it should get me through the job!