Painting Walls #DIYhomeImprovements

Buying an old home has it's own pros and cons.  The house that we bought hasn't been updated for 15 years according to it's  assessment/appraisal report so pretty much everything in it  have seen better days.  That's why we decided to upgrade the wood floors and  removed the  old  linoleum types of flooring s in  the family room, kitchen and hallways in the first floor.  I  wasn't planning on painting walls yet until we moved in but all of that changed when  the  flooring company whom we hired to do the tile work in the floor  have delayed  for few  weeks.  So we decided to give the house a fresh coat of paint.  We went to Sherwin Williams and bought our  paint there and avail their sale.  Their paints are a lot  expensive even with sale prices.  

The kids picked  and decided   the colors to paint their own bedrooms.  My daughter chose  French  light grey to paint her room and my son chose bluebell for his room.   Hubby and I decided to paint our master bedroom with  sea salt color. I also chose marshmallow white for the rest of the  house.

Even though I was concern with the cost, I am glad we  painted  before we moved because it looks a lot better with fresh coat of paints.  We still have a few to paint like the ceiling and the  main bath but those will be our future projects to do.

What I love about this store is,  the associates really knows their job so well.  They were so helpful to us as well.

You can never go wrong going with them, I just wish they are not so expensive.  Then again, you get what you pay for so I am not complaining.

We will wait till they have another major sale before we buy the  paint that we need for the remaining rooms that we weren't able to do.

To make  our kitchen look spacious, we  painted it  marshmallow white to match the  tiles that we used on the flooring.  Our kids love to help so we put them to work lol.

It's nice when your kids are involved in doing projects like this.  It makes the memories  so memorable.

Our daughter is such a hard worker.  She painted with me for so many days.

Hubby and I helped her paint her room.  I like the previous white walls on her room but  since the color  the she chose for her bedding  are so bright,  the french grey was a great choice.

Her room has a very big window so it looks bright in there  even on night time as the street light shines so bright.

My son's room looks very relaxing although the color makes the room look smaller.

My 9 and 10 year old little  helpers in painting did   a great job!

I am so glad that they were off the school when we  started working on the house.  It was hard concentrating  on doing our projects when they  were still in school because we can only work for .few house and then stop as they have activities and other  stuff.

My daughter is very interested in  interior designing. So she decided to put some artsy design in her walk-in closet.  She used  a lot of  painters tape to do this project but she did it alone without our help.

This design goes with the geometric design of her bedding.

We are still unpacking as of this moment so everything is still in disarray lol.  I need more time to put everything in place but I will get there.

@ryestein_ 'a room is coming along slowly, we still have to put her artworks up on the wall. Today, hubby helped me hang the curtains. One thing at a time, we will get there.

A photo posted by Chubskulit Rose (@chubskulitrose) on Jul 2, 2016 at 4:46pm PDT

It's amazing how much stuff you collect over the years. In our 13 years of marriage, we have so many stuff. You never knew what you have till you move to another place, whew!