Kitchen, Dining and Laundry painting done!

It is amazing how much you can achieve during a 2 week Christmas holiday.  Along with multiple family dinners, bbq’s and outings we have successfully finished painting the kitchen, dining and laundry areas.

It has been a hot 2 weeks too, so the painting has had to happen either early morning before 10 am or in the evening.  The first day we painted in the heat we both struggled with thick sticky paint and fumes so we quickly learnt our lesson with that one!

First off we got a full first coat in the kitchen and dining area.

The laundry was the same dark purple as the kitchen was originally, and underneath the purple is lime green paint which was discovered during sanding. 

It’s actually quite a large space for a laundry and we will be looking to utilise it a bit more efficiently with some storage ideas in the weeks to come! It would be good to get a door between the kitchen and laundry too, or even some kind of sliding screen which could still let some light into the kitchen, just to help hide the washing machine and ‘stuff’ that always seems to accumulate in this space!

We had an idea part way through painting of making a feature wall of some sort for the kitchen.  We settled on the idea of a chalkboard wall – something a bit fun and interactive.  I think because we were used to bright purple, the full coat of beige felt a bit, well beige (!).  

To get a nice smooth finish we sanded over the wall again to get rid of the bumps and then put 2 layers of Dulux Chalkboard paint.  The paint is quite thick and the initial coat was quite sticky and difficult to roll on.  A lot of paint was also used up just getting a full coverage on the roller, so for the second coat we used a brush which helped get the paint on more evenly.  It takes 48 hours to harden so no chalk drawings yet!

It feels really spacious and more inviting in this area now and we have moved the table so that we can easily sit 6 people around it - and still walk either side. 

A big transformation, a big job, but definitely worth doing!

(remember what we started with only a few months ago.........