Renovating Denver - One House at a Time

Paint

Drywall is done, and we’ve moved on to priming and painting. We should really rent a sprayer, but we don’t have a sink here to wash it out in. We’ve been using rollers and brushes. It kind of sucks, but it’s kind of fun because the floors aren’t in yet so we can be as messy as we want. Mike and I painted most of the downstairs already. We picked a couple of Behr colors: Palatial White for ceilings and trim, Navajo White for most downstairs walls, and Soft Denim for the kitchen/sunroom. Our kitchen cabinets are painted off white-ish, with a brown glaze. I think it’s called Vanilla Bean finish. The cabinets are Merillat, which is the same thing as Kraftmaid at Home Depot. The idea is for the cabinet color to fall in the same family as the Navajo White and Palatial White.

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HARDWOOD FLOOR DELIVERY

We painted most of the downstairs to prepare for the flooring delivery today. We ordered the wide plank floors in a heart pine. The widths of the planks vary from 4″ to 8″. Some of the boards are as long as 16 feet! We had to stack the floors a special way, with lathe strips in between all the boards. This helps air circulate through the boards while they acclimate to the house for a week. The floors will be stained a dark red color … which is similar to some wood that was in the house originally. The stain color is called Autumn Leaf, if you look hard at the first photo in the Paint section above (click to view large image) you can see the floor stain sample in the middle at the bottom.

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