Paint and whatnot

I haven't shared many progress pictures on the house lately mostly because of the mess and the fact that it's not very attractive to take pictures with tools and paint cans lying around. So here's some sharing.

This is the kitchen, almost move in ready. I finally painted the red accent wall, but of course most of it will be blocked by pretty stainless steel appliances. Painting with red is really challenging. One sneeze and you have to start over, (for those of us who don't use masking tape that is). And the coats of paint you have to do to make it all even, ...ouch.

The radiator is sitting right in the middle of the kitchen and everyone comments on it but we're actually putting an island at the end of it so it just looks misplaced for now. It's funny though because it's the first thing everyone says when they come in, "why is that there!?"

I'm not sure if I'll paint the radiator or not. I kind of like it the way it is. We recuperated three of these radiators from a plumber we know and they'd all been painted peach except this one. I'm a little tired of scraping off paint.

(see those tools--what did I tell you, messy messy)

And still more rustica, the back of the kitchen door with all the paint off. I'll still take off more so it isn't quite so shabby and then I'll wax it. The new trim around the door will have to be tinted though. I'm leaving all the interiors of the doors in the downstairs part of the house like this au natural. The parts going out the hallway will be white.

The dining room is off the kitchen, and this is the gray I mixed for it. It's a little darker than what you see in the photos here. It was really easy to mix up 20 litres and a lot cheaper. I think I might try to mix more paint colors for some of the other rooms because it was lots of fun getting just what I wanted.

I finally got the latex paint off of the fireplace. It was painted light green (to match the mauve carpet they'd installed no doubt). I still have to polish it and make it purty. You can't really see in this photo but there's a lot of grey in the veins of the marble, super pretty. My fingers accepted my apology for all the scraping but they're still waiting for an apology from the p.o.'s for painting over marble. What kind of idjit does that?

We also finally got the floors sanded and they're really nice, --a red pine not yellow like upstairs! The wood almost looks like oak in color. Of course mauve carpet would be MUCH prettier in this room *cough*cough*

I'll try to keep up on the progress photos. I know it's fun to see the changes.