It’s crunch time, I don’t want to be painting the week before the party (the smell of new paint can linger), so the last painting will be at latest Monday night (if we need to finish something up from the weekend).  So that means this week is crunch time painting wise and next week I’ll do the party prep (make decorations and favors etc).

Last night Ryan got home in time to see Alex before bedtime and then after dinner we got in another 2 hours of painting.  We finished up the 3 windows and archway in the livingroom so all the livingroom trim has 1 coat now!

Cupola all has 1 coat on trim

I also got 4 of the livingroom outlets installed (they aren’t yet live as I have to take out the one outlet we are using to wire them all up), and there are about 4 more outlets in the hallway and diningroom to go before this effort is done.

Outlets wired up

Once the livingroom was done we moved right on to the diningroom…

Knee walls have first coat on trim and the caps have 3rd coat of poly

I got the 3rd coat of poly on the caps, but I think we’re going to do a 4th coat today, they are smooth but a couple of small bumps that I’d like smoothed out, plus it will be a high traffic area for decorations and such i’m sure, a 4th coat can’t hurt.

Window trim and baseboards all have first coat

So it was another late night but definitely worth it!  If we have another painting night tonight I think we’ll get the first coat on the upper walls so we can see how it will look.  Then it will be time to sand all the trim and do the second coat this weekend … yikes!