Who says you can't paint a house in a weekend?

We were lucky that Patrick had a 4 day weekend last weekend and we could get a head start on painting.  We needed to paint every room that is getting new carpet put in next week.  We were able to move pretty quickly since we didn't have to worry about drop cloths and nonsense like not dripping paint on the floors.

Patrick did most of the ceilings, my dad edged every room, and I primed the trim and rolled most of the walls.

Remember that red wall in the living room?  One coat of Behr's Wheat Bread covered it nicely!  We used Wheat Bread in most of the rooms of the house.

Living room.  Goodbye red wall!  Trim is only primed in this picture and will be painted with Behr Ultra Pure White.

We used Wheat Bread to cover the red on the fire place in the family room as well.  One coat did ok, but it definitely needs a second.

Living room.  Ceiling beams and trim are primed and walls are Behr Wheat Bread.

No more red fireplace and it's hard to tell, but Patrick pulled up the flooring.  Sliding door on the left will be replaced with french doors and door on the right will be replaced with a window.

We painted Finn's room blue.  I can't remember off the top of my head the name of the paint, but it was another Behr.

Finn's room.  Trim still needs to be painted.

We also had our new kitchen appliances delivered last weekend!  Considering that the door of the oven that came with the house didn't close all the way, we definitely needed to replace it.  Sears was having an appliance sale a couple weeks ago (we bought appliances before closing and lived to tell about it!) so we bought a new refrigerator too.  The old one still works so we stuck it in the garage.

Kenmore Elite French Door Bottom Freezer

GE double oven.  The doors are stainless, we just haven't pulled the plastic off yet.

One grumble about Sears in case they stumble across this.  We paid for delivery and installation.  The delivery guys tried to leave the appliances in our driveway.  They were not happy when we stuck to our guns and made them bring them inside.  Patrick ended up installing the oven and range hood himself.  I'm not sure the delivery guys could have gotten out of our house any faster.  I was surprised by how terrible delivery service was because that was not our experience at all when we bought our washer and dryer 3 years ago.

The next post will have pictures of painted trim and hopefully over the weekend we can install new doors if they are delivered in time.  We are also having a new heat pump installed because our a/c conked out on us last Friday.  Yes, that would be 4 days into home ownership.  We knew it was old and it actually had to be fixed after the home inspection because it wasn't working then.  It was worked through closing, but the first 90 degree day did it in. 

I leave you with our kitchen decoration.  Should we leave it up as a reminder of how much we painted?

We have not painted the kitchen yet.  Those stencils need to go!