Hallway

One of the major things on the Dreaded List for our holiday was painting our hallway. 

When we first brought the house the hallway looked like this: 

Before we even moved in we took up the absolutely foul carpet (this photo doesn't translate how bad this carpet was!) and splashed some undercoat on the walls.  And that is essentially how it stayed; the hallway was very neglected.

One of the main reasons for the neglect is the amount of doors coming off our hallway: there are four single doors and two double doors, and I am the woodwork painter in our household! Everyone who has ever painted knows that the hardest part of painting is starting, and the most time consuming part is painting woodwork. 

However despite the avoidance strategies that we employed, we eventually got to the point on the list where the hallway just had to be done. 

It took two days of preparation to strip back all the woodwork and patch up all the dint's and cracks and holes in the wall.   

And it took two days to paint.  We were interrupted several times by "good gardening days" (cool weather) and visitors, but eventually we packed up all the painting gear and were done: 

P.S. you may have noted that the doors themselves are not painted (still that creamy yellow colour)...... we had to leave something for another day!