Painting: Living room

I had been wanting to paint the living room since we moved in over a year ago but just hadn't. I decided this weekend that I was going to do it. I had taken Friday off from work, stopped at Home Depot on my way home from my appointments, picked up the paint and a few other supplies that were needed. Here are my before pictures:

By by, shinny green paint.

Prepped and ready to go. It would have been easier to move everything out but we don't have a lot of space in which to move everything.

The initial plan was to do it all Friday night. However, mother nature had her own plans, the primer took way longer to dry because of the rain we got Friday night. We let the first coat of primer dry over night, N and I tackled the 2nd coat of primer Saturday morning.

Second coat of primer done.

N took my roller away from me so I took his picture.

2 walls completed.

1st coat done, just need to touch up a few spots.

There are still a few spots to touch up. At about 11 pm Saturday night we decided that we wanted to paint the trim. We painted a small spot behind the couch to see if we liked it in the morning and went to bed. We still need another coat of paint on the trim but were tired of painting on Sunday morning.

The color is Bayside by Behr. We rent our house or I probably would have used Sherman Williams paint. I got a deal on the paint because HD was out of the Premium Paint. So I got the Premium Plus Ultra, Paint & Primer in one for the price of the regular. My husband was actually impressed with the paint. I was happy that I only had to use 1 coat plus touch ups.

We used Vanilla Milkshake by Behr for the trim. I already had it in the house, it was their regular "Premium" paint. It doesn't settle out as nice as the Premium Plus Ultra does.

For a primer we used Kilz 2 latex primer, I had bought it to do a few small projects around the house. We did not like the way it coated.

I think this has quenched my thirst to paint for awhile but I'm hoping to paint the kitchen cabinets white soon.