The LAST Painting Makover Project!!

Well, it's official - the era of painting in my house is OVER! Maggie and I can have our house back and our weekends free to do fun things (like go to museums for me and go to the dog park for Maggie). The days of headaches from paint fumes are done and Maggie hopefully will cease to have paint on her tail or ears from being too curious....YES!

The last painting project was not done by me, but rather by Stan, the bass player in my co-worker's band. He does these side jobs in addition to playing music on the weekends (and I can definitely tell that he's a musician who lived in the 6o's and 70's because he calls me 'babe' or 'sweetheart' which I hate, and calls other musicians 'cats').

Stan painted the whole upstairs common area/hallway, the main stairwell, and then the downstairs entryway/living room. It seemed to take FOREVER (about a week), but I'm so happy with it! I don't know how I handled looking at ALL WHITE WALLS for a year in this house, now that every single wall is covered in color now (except for the tiny laundry room - and I'm not messing with that).

Here are the BEFORE pictures:

Here are some IN PROGRESS pictures:

I just love the "scaffolding" system - a skinny wood plank between 2 ladders in the staircase.....safe, real safe......

Hanging out 'on the plank'....

Maggie, working as the Supervisor/General Contractor.....

Maggie, "injured" on the job - and paint on the fur to prove it!

And here are the AFTER pictures!

I took these pictures at all different times of day, so the lighting is vastly different for each one...I promise - it's all the same color (Sherwin Williams "Quiver Tan"). Woo hoo - it's all DONE!!!!