So, progress has been good this week; we’ve painted all the walls and the ceiling once, a second coat on the ceiling (and Kathryn will be here to help with the ceiling tomorrow*, yay) and a second coat on the walls and the kitchen will be painted, less the woodwork. I’m going to paint the door frames later today, just want to make sure it has as long to dry as possible, because it says 16-24 hours to dry.
Once they’ve got undercoat on them all the woodwork in the kitchen will be ready to be painted. We can put one coat of that on tomorrow, take much of the coverings off, and then Friday we can paint the last of the woodwork, let it dry, and pop the fridge back in it’s normal home in the corner. But tomorrow evening we will get our kitchen back. Which is a good thing. Hopefully the paint fumes will abate soon, too.
But it has made such a change. The kitchen is much lighter and airier, even covered in dust sheets.
We have managed to create a weird optical illusion though, the green and sand paints meet on two corners; one, an internal corner, you can see the different colour paints quite distinctly. The other, an external corner which is really well lit, has the bizzare effect of making the two very different colours look the same. In fact it looks like it’s just shadow that’s making the one wall look a bit darker. it’s most strange.
Anyhow; I’m off to lug stones about in the garden.
* She was off doing her driving test today**
** Which she passed, because she rocks.
