Blessed Foundation: Post 18: Dining Room Part 6 -- Prime and Paint

Today, we'll show you how we finished up the dining room project!

We left off with a textured room.

To finish the room, we needed to prime and paint everything. Alan started by ensuring that all holes and seams in the trim were patched and sanded and then we got to taping the room.

We bought a paint sprayer and wanted to try it out by priming the room with it. To do this, we needed to make sure EVERYTHING was covered that shouldn't be painted -- including the entries to the room.

We taped the window and the floors really well.

Here are a few last looks at the unpainted trim:

I wish I could have gotten pictures to help describe the paint-spraying process, but the room was sealed off and I didn't want to ruin my camera! Alan filled the sprayer with primer (he did this several times to coat the room) and slowly walked around the room, coating each wall. He wore long sleeves, long pants, a hat, and a mask to keep the paint off of him and out of his lungs. After about 15 minutes, the room was coated! Not bad to paint a whole room!

The weight of the paint did pull down some of the plastic on the windows, so we got some over-spray, but this came off easily with a blade.

We sure are glad we hung the tarps, though!!

There was a little white mist for a few minutes after Alan sprayed the room with paint, but after that settled, the room looked so clean and bright!

It was so clean that we though about leaving it white... for about 2 seconds!

On to painting! We started by painting the trim a glossy white.

These pictures serve as proof that I really do help with projects (and apparently didn't brush my hair)!

After the trim was painted, we let that dry before beginning to paint the walls and the ceiling.

We knew we would use the same beige on the walls of this room that we had used in our bedroom -- Sherwin Williams Kilim Beige. For the ceiling, though, we wanted to do something a little bolder.

We took the same Sherwin Williams paint swatch that we used for our living room and moved one color darker from Rainwashed to Quietude.

It looked so dark when I first started painting...

...but as it started to dry, I knew I would love it!

On to paint the walls! Alan had been working outside all day while I was painting the room. He was so great to come in after a long day and finish up the ceiling and the walls!