Moves in Curves

So we painted our dining room, and when I say we I mean 80% me and 20% Hubby, in Buttercream. That’s a color, not a frosting, Melia. Though obviously, frosting on the walls would be pretty rockin’. I wonder if it would be more per gallon than Behr Premium, or less? Probably less, sadly. But I digress.

This is two coats, over the dark emerald it used to be:

I will reserve judgment until I can see it in sunlight for whether it needs a third coat. In the pics it looks fine, in person I swear I can still see some green under the pale tan-ish-yellow. Maybe I’m hallucinating it. I’ll wait til morning to call a psych consult.

We’re going to paint the living room the same color. We’ll have to go buy another gallon, since the need for extreme coverage in the dining room meant the paint didn’t go as far as I’d planned, and we had to break into the gallon that will go in the living room. However, the living room is white, and will be much easier to paint. The furniture is much easier to move around in the dining room, though, since it consists of a table and 4 chairs and a sofa that one of DH’s friends gave us and which he determinedly wants to keep, despite the kids having drawn on it in Sharpie. Sharpie doesn’t come off suede, by the way, no matter how many chemicals you put on it.

Anyway, I did the edging the first coat and let Hubby do the walls. This was a mistake. He is no good at painting. And he was under the impression a second coat would have to wait a few days. When I told him he was ridiculous and we’d be giving it about 6 hours, he grumbled that that was how they do it on the boat. This isn’t the USS San Francisco, dude, it’s the dining room. This paint doesn’t have to withstand being in the ocean. It’s just friggin’ satin interior paint. It dries pretty quick, enough for a next coat anyway. I don’t know what he’s bitching about, he’s a welder, not a painter, as he pointed out when I helpfully mentioned (he called it criticizing – semantics) that he was doing it wrong. I let him do the edging and I did the main part of the walls on the second coat, and it’s much better.

I still have to get used to it. I didn’t have the green very long, it wasn’t what I wanted, but apparently my eyes were used to it, cause the buttercream looks weird. Tomorrow, painting the living room. And I’m going to have to paint the trim too sometime this week. Then we can rip out the carpets and lay the laminate floors Hubby bought this week. And when I say we, I mean my friend’s husband and a bunch of beer that I will buy him, because I have no idea how to do that (though I might be able to bullshit my way through it if I had to) and Hubby will be in Connecticut by then.