Painting the Nursery

We worked very hard on our guest bedroom. We painted it and it took about 3 coats of paint and still isn't perfect. We also dripped paint on the carpet, got paint on the ceiling and the trim. I was exhausted by the end of it and it wasn't that fun. Don't get me wrong, I love walking by our guest room and where we messed up with our paint job is hardly noticeable with furniture in there and all.

This got us thinking about Eli's room. We were going to take our time with his room and make sure it was perfect. We were going to do a good job taping things off, protecting the floor, we would use a primer and Google the most perfect paint job techniques online. After we spent about $100 on paint supplies and a few hours getting our game plan together we both looked at each other....are we REALLY going to take our time?  Are we REALLY not going to get tired or rush to finish.

The answer was a very simple no. We are both impatient. We are not one to pay extreme attention to detail. We both just knew that once we started we would want it done asap. We started kicking around the idea of hiring someone and that really appealed to us both. Like...a lot. We wondered if we would be depriving ourselves of the full nursery building experience if we handed this job over to someone else and the answer was also a very simple no. Trust me their are plenty of projects in this nursery that we will be a big part of. So a few phone calls and 3 days later we had our nursery painted to absolute perfection. Let's start with before...

Tan, immediately after room mate left.

Tan room.

 The day we had the painter come and look at the room he filled in all the holes in the wall to prep it for his paint 2 days later. Oh yeah...filling in the holes is something we forgot all about.

He filled holes I didn't even realize were there! (Is that what she said? Haha, let's hope not)

Apparently there where a lot of holes...and again, we didn't even notice.

So as you can see, there were a lot of holes that needed filling. We didn't even get hole filler much less plan to use it on 100 different spots around the room. Reason 56 why we are amateurs and should leave the painting to the professional. We also didn't have plans on painting the trim or the doors but this guy did and it make a world of difference. Think about the last time the trim was painted in your home or the doors. They probably get the dirtiest too and while a good scrub helps it's nothing like a fresh coat of paint.

It took him about 4 hours to get the entire thing done when he come back to paint. I peaked in when he took a restroom break and snapped these "during" photos.

A drop cloth.

A ladder.

A roller and bucket.

I loved the color immediately but he wasn't done yet.

 I was looking for the magic dust this guy must have on him because apparently it only took him two coats and that was with the same kind of paint we used in our guest room. I also wondered what kind of magic dust he had to not get a single tiny DROP on the ceiling. If my dad were reading this he would be highly upset that I am using the words magic dusts so let me just clarify...this guy had skills that a normal person just doesn't have. Lot's of experience and the fact that this is his profession made him SO much better than your average joe at painting the room. You may think we wasted our money but let me just say, this was my favorite $200 spent thus far. And...after....

The walls are just so smooth looking!

The door is bright white, a long with the trim.

So beautiful!

I can't wait until Eli's furniture gets here so we can put all the details into this room but it really is a perfect canvas to work with right now. These pictures were before Mark steam cleaned the carpet so that helped too.

We love the color for our boy. It's so bright and cheery and I think it will last him quite sometime.

Danielle