Project Paint Phase #1

The much awaited Home Improvement blog and pictures, ok maybe you all weren't waiting for it, but it is a HUGE part of our lives right now, and so well you get to read about it and see our progress as well. Let me prelude this first. I know I should do a post first on the house before we moved in, however I don't have those pics on this comp and let's face it, I wanna get these pics up, so the improvements we have done so far other than the painting project will be another post when I have more time!
First off our home was built in 1948, it is very old, very small and cozy. When we bought the entire house was paneling all except the closet, which is large for the size of the house, one wall in the spare room, and the ya that's all that doesn't have paneling on it. Now really paneling was great, but catch the was in that statement, like in the 70's or something! Jo was going through a Spring Fever attack and was planning on painting over the paneling, researched it and all, Darin however decided that the paneling was coming down. The project became way bigger than we ever could have imagined. Takes about a 1 1/2 months to complete one room, due to the size, we move half the room out, start on that half then move the other half over and so on. So it's slow, space confined and stressful especially for a neat freak like Jo! It's also hard because we have people in and out of the house all the time, some we know and some we don't. Which is great but hard when you are working on your home like we are. Sorry, I'll get back to the point here- We started in the closet, it was white and we kept it that way! It had light bulbs on the ceiling for light. Our wonderful friend Shaun came over and he helped Darin put up light fixtures! Looks AWESOME! Then the bedroom, what better place to start right, get the kinks all figured out in the room you don't have a lot of company visit. Well, there's a lot of kinks in this project..... When taking off the paneling the wall is multi colored and polkadotted. We sand down the glue, prime, patch work and putty, Spray texture, and finally Paint! Keep in mind we also both work a minimum of 40 hrs a week and are trying to stay on a budget! Anywho- here is the bedroom all decorated up. Sorry but I'm not showing all the trim work just yet, most of it is done, however we are still working on that part! The color of this room is Cinnamon Glaze! Please let us know what you think, and be kind this is our FIRST painting project EVER! The guy at the local store we are using says by the time we are done, we will be experts and make this our career, ummmmm....... We think NOT!!!!!!!!!

The many colors and Polka dots under the REALLY old Paneling.

A view of the colors, polka dots and the old paneling still on the wall!

And the color with the bed, decorating was/is still a work in progress, as we change each room, we add and subtract from the other rooms that are done and so on.

The bedroom looking out into the hallway, bathroom, and front room.

the view into the Closet and hallway closet. (Side note that door that we got white paint on accidentally, is now completely white.

One of Jo's favorite walls in the bedroom, to always remind us of our wonderful Vegas Wedding/honeymoon trip!

The TV wall! Darin and Jo's dad have hung those mounts twice now. Awesome job guys!

Another of the walls in the bedroom! That lower plaque is one of Jo's favorite- A really good friend got it for her while going through her divorce and it really helped her through the rough times. It says, " God will heal your broken heart, if you will give him all the pieces" The same day Jo's mom gave her the picture next to it, of a young woman crying on Christ's shoulder! Enough said!

This wall was just finished recently. Jo did this as a surprise for Darin. Darin loves the Iowa Hawkeye's but living in Utah, he doesn't get to watch the games or hear about the scores or anything. He is an avid collector and Jo tries very hard to keep his collections out, this stuff has been hidden away in a box since we moved in, trying to find it's perfect spot. The idea for this has been with Jo for over a year, just had to wait for the right way to display it.