Painting the Town Red

I have a small confession.  I am holding back on bathroom photos so I can finally finally show you some proper before and afters!

I feel a bit bad about this as everyone keeps asking me when I will put up bathroom photos - but trust me it will be worth the wait!

Moving on from that ..... last Friday our builders finally moved themselves, and all their gear out of our house!

We went from this:

To this, in just a few short (but labour intensive), hours. 

Although there were many reasons why cleaning up and moving out day was Friday, the primary one was that we needed to get into paint on the weekend.  

Because all the plasterboard was new, we were all about Priming everything! Priming is not the best job in the world as the new plaster just sucks up the paint and it seems to take forever to get the paint on the walls. However with the help of my lovely mother (my lovely father was there in spirit) we got a coat of Primer on all the walls and the ceiling before we called it a (very long) day.

The next day we had two coats of ceiling white to get on, as well as the wall colour.

The wonderful J did a truly fantastic job of the ceiling and it nearly killed him - there is a lot of ceiling in this room, and he held a roller above his head for about 6 hours!

And at the end of the weekend however, we could see the fruits of our labour.  It is all beginning to take shape....