Day 1: We Prep!

So even though I quit my job last week, I have been putting in some long days working on the house. My father was awesome enough to travel all the way from Pittsburgh to help me paint the Hallway/Foyer/Living/Dining Room. Here is his pacifying the guard dog who refused to let him remove the outlet until she deemed it safe:

I was a lucky ducky and got my father for an extended weekend, Saturday through Tuesday, essentially three whole days. Now he has three other children, so this is quite a feat and further proves that I am the favorite. (just kidding...sorta). So before we got to painting this massive space, there was a ton of prep work. This included removing all of the outlets and stuff on the wall. Below is a picture of the removal of the thermostat. It revealed the original color of the walls: 70's pea green, so as much as I like to rag on the previous owners for poor decorating choices (cough...wallpaper...cough) they definitely improved the place by painting over that:

In addition to freeing the wall from the outlets and switches, we also needed to tape off everything. Here is a pretty sweet close up of my taping skills to protect the cool art deco-y molding in the foyer:

And here is an even sweeter picture of my dad spackling a settling crack in the living room ceiling:

Once everything was taped off and such, my dad painting the ceilings and I began lining the areas that were going to be painted. Here is a good shot of him hard at work:

Yea, it's not enough that you raised me...you must also put in long hours helping me update the house. Hehe. Just kidding. I really appreciated all of his hard work. Speaking of hard work, here is a shot of my hard work lining the walls:

Now that is attractive! Okay, it looks worse than before...well, considering that the awful curtains are gone, really about the same. At this point, I will admit that I was really nervous about the color. It was looking a bit too close to the 1970's yellow and green that was secretly hidden throughout this home. This was just a teaser...you are going to have to tune in again tomorrow to hear about Day 2: We Paint! Muahaha!