Weekend Recap: Painting Upstairs

We had a busy weekend full of painting upstairs. On Friday we painted, on Saturday we painted, and on Sunday we rested.

I was at a convention for work on Friday, so I got home at a decent time. Adam ended up working later than planned though. So by the time we felt like painting, it was dark out. Our original plan was start on the main guest room. However, surveying the walls I noticed a lot of bumps that I wanted to sand along with scratches and tiny little holes. I grabbed some spackle and my little tool and went to town on those walls.

Since the guest room wasn't going to be ready, we decided to tackle the hallway. The hallway was still painted yellow from when our main floor was yellow. I think we ran out of steam originally, so it's remained yellow for a few years - out of sight, out of mind.

Since we had paint supplies spread out in the guest room, the only way Chester could be up by us was if he was in his kennel. He actually was very well behaved and napped in there while we painted.

Here's the before,

during,

and after.

On Saturday, we enjoyed a delicious breakfast of corned beef hash + runny egg courtesy of Adam. Then I sanded down the spackle, we got Chester's run ready in the hallway, and we were ready to paint.

This fun project took most of the day. As usual, I did all the cutting in and Adam did the rolling.

We had painted this room right before moving in, but I wanted to move in a different direction. Here's what it looked like before -

and after -

The color turned out a bit different than I thought, but I like it. And obviously I still need to style the room! I have a new comforter and other things to put in there.

We got done around 3, so relaxed a bit before we got ready and went out to a movie. We went to 42 which just hit theaters and is about Jackie Robinson. It was a little cheesy at times, but we both enjoyed it. And we stuffed our faces with popcorn. Okay maybe it was just me... Yum!

By the time it was Sunday, we were over painting, so we decided to finish the rest next weekend and spent a lot of time on the couch/man chair. I did do some touch-ups on the guest room though so it wasn't a completely paint-free day. We also watched Trouble with the Curve that came in the mail from Netflix. Again, it was a bit cheesy but cute. I got our meal plan and grocery list done for the week, so I wasn't completely worthless. It was a miserable day outside with rain and sleet, this I discovered firsthand walking Chester around the block, so I didn't feel too bad that we did nothing.