One of the projects I accomplished whilst Tash was visiting her family was to paint the garage.  It had come painted when we moved in, but after 2.5 years of me tinkering, motorcycling and having a toddler, the walls weren’t so nice looking — so I figured what the heck why not slap on a fresh coat of paint.  It blew me away with how much nicer it makes the garage feel to not see all the scuffs, scrapes, pencil marks, tire rubs etc on the wall!  It got me thinking that perhaps there were a few other places in the house that could use a little ‘help’.  So I proposed the idea to Tash and she jumped all over it. 

 

When the house was purchased we had the option to have ‘high quality’ paint put in for a premium — at the time we felt we were already in deep enough so we passed — so we got basically glorified primer on our walls.  Flat, cheap paint.  And from the quality of the paint job/texture there were a few inebriated individuals working when the painting and texturing took place.  Needless to say we’ve always had a bone to pick with our textured walls and crappy paint.  About 1.5 years ago we splurged and had a painter come paint Emma’s room and our upstairs bathroom and our half bath.  The bathrooms we did a deep blue and Emma’s room a light green.  When I started talking paint and master bath to Tash she and I both knew what color we wanted — dark silver-blue.  Back when we were house shopping one of the model homes we went through had a deep silver-blue paint in the master bathroom and we loved it — so why not copy it?!

 

A trip to Ace Hardware, a gallon of paint later we were underway!  Considering we started at 2 pm on a Sat and without too much rush and hurry were able to complete the job before Sunday at 4 pm I think we did ok.  Next up?  Either our bedroom and closet or kitchen….