Living Room Paint

Besides some touching up, and scraping that blue tape up off the floor, I'm done painting the living room. Phew, I do not like to paint. It looks pretty good, but it'll be awhile before I can look at it without thinking about having to climb up and down a ladder a million times.

The ceilings and trim are semi gloss Kelly Moore 'Swiss Coffee,' and the wall is KM 'Portland Whitbed.' They have everything available as no VOC if you ask for it, it costs an extra couple bucks per can. It was great to get no VOC, it didn't smell at all, and it won't be off gassing any volatile organic compounds.

If we had paid our (really reasonable priced) painting contractor to paint this room, it would have cost about $600. Yay for me.

The Hatch

Part of the paint preparations in the living room is on 'The Hatch.' There is a sky light in here for some reason, and all it brings into the house is blinding sun light and burning heat. Oh, and it also condenses water and drips on the floor. Shortly after buying the house, we screwed some cardboard to the ceiling. I know, we're so fancy.

The plan now is to build a little frame or something with some wood slats, or something. I don't know, my husband is in charge of that project. I'll paint it when he's done with it. I originally wanted to get a fancy shade for it, but the kind that I want that are tracked for horizontal installation are, like, $300. Hence, the cardboard.

Before & After: Living Room Windows

The window trim in the living room was weird. Actually, the entire living room is a bit odd, it was probably a patio to begin with, then the room was added, maybe in the '70s. So the whole room is a bit screwy, but it's the largest single room in the house.

We just clipped the curved end off of the bottom of the window trim, planed off the raggedy edges left by the saw, and painted it the wall color. There are five windows like that, and three of them are covered up by the couch. There's no other wood trim on the windows except this bottom sash (told you it was weird).