Painting the house

Well, its official we are now home owners. We closed on the house back on Tuesday, but we had given the sellers a three day leaseback so we actually couldn't get into the house until Saturday.

The closing went fast. We had gotten the closing documents over the weekend so we had a chance to read them before getting to closing. When we got to the closing we were able to ask our few questions and then just sign away since we had already looked through the papers. We were out in 45 minutes, which I guess is pretty fast especially for the first time.

Since we were able to get into the house yesterday, we went up to paint and clean. Our plan was to paint the bedroom and office. We started at 7:30 cleaning and spakling and taking down blinds. Then we started painting in the master bedroom. The room has a white chair railing trim, so we had decided to paint the top portion of the room red and the bottom portion tan. Be prepared if you choose a deep color to paint, it takes several coats. The first layer of red looked pink and you could see every line where the paint overlapped or a stroke ended. We were unaware of the need for multiple layers so we were getting a little worried. But we decided to keep trying because where you could see the overlap areas it looked more like the color we wanted. So we did a second layer. This greatly improved the look of the room. It had now become a livable red color, but you could still see all the paint lines underneath. At the same time (as we had Crystal's parents with us) we painted the bottom of the room tan. It looked good and only one coat. We also painted the office tan. By the time we were all done for the day it was 7:00 pm. We had spent the whole day cleaning and painting.

To top it off, we are not finished. We still need to do another layer or two on the red to finish it up. So as a word of caution, if you decided to paint a deep color, be prepared to do two to five layers. We learned this from the lady at Home Depot when we asked while buying more paint for the second layer.

We are very happy with the house and are exited to move all of our stuff there on Tuesday. We will post pictures when the painting is done and more when everything is set up.