Humble Home Progress 3

We decided to stay the night last night after John got off work, so we brought the dogs and a bunch of supplies.  It went as predicted--Olivia and John went to sleep pretty quickly, and Lucas visited me sporadically to see what I was doing. He eventually got in bed with daddy and went to sleep.

  I lost track of time. I worked on this nasty upstairs bathroom. Good news is our makeshift plug worked; I didn't detect any methane gases. We are anxious to put new toilets in but we have to wait for the flooring...which is waiting on our paint...
I taped up the nasty baseboards and trim:

gross...

Then I painted, and touched up with second coat:

When it dried, I taped along the wall to paint the baseboards. I put a thick coat of satin "ivory tower" paint and I think it looks a lot better.

We also took out this unnecessary and bothersome door and cleaned up the frame.

At that point, we could officially say the upstairs is all painted!
So I touched up the baseboards in the formal dining room, and used my tiny brushed to get in between the chair railing. Then I decided to start the master bedroom.
  I took out the ugly dusty curtains which had heavy duty rails..with 4 anchors...pried them out, sanded, filled the holes with this cool pink stuff (turns white when it's ready to sand/paint), took off the outlet/switch cover plates (probably one of the germiest of places in a home..yuck) and taped up everything. Was too tired to embark on the painting. Saw the clock was 3:30am, so I moved Lucas over and slept on the aerobed pretty comfortably too!

John took this to prove to co-workers that he 'made me paint the whole house' lol.

But I got up at 7:30am and got back to work. John helped me tape up the tray ceiling since we decided it needed paint too. As I was painting the master bedroom this "seal gray" color, I wanted to do some kind of accent, so I decided to tape off either side of the main wall and paint the center this "soft suede" color. John had doubts because it was hard to get a straight line, but changed his mind when he saw how good it looked: (and that it still felt 'masculine' haha).
Before:

After--getting crazy with the cheese whiz lol...my last minute decision. First time trying a 'design' with tape:

Then we began my least favorite task...another dirty bathroom. But the master bath and half bath ceiliings were painted this wierd orange-y color...which made the room feel small and dark, so we painted the ceiliings white...painting ceilings sucks!
We removed the heavy mirror, filled holes, sanded, and taped--ready to paint walls tomorrow. But we had to come home today to get cleaned up and get better rest. Even with virtually non-stop painting and going up and down stairs (I always seem to need something on the opposite floor..and then when I get there, I forget it. lol) I managed to eat quite a bit. So even though I was exhausted and feet and back ache, I decided to get a quick workout. Back in the AM to hopefully start the big walls/big foyer....scared to use the extended ladder!

The kids ate, slept, pooped, and played a bunch. They love going to "the house" (Lucas cries when we leave saying he wants to stay!)
Olivia loves being in this pack and play...like it's her personal castle...then Lucas jumps in to bug her lol.

 He's getting really good at these puzzles!

  Lastly we took down the ugly kitchen/nook curtains and filled the anchor holes..taped it up and it's ready to be painted...not sure what color yet lol.

 Our messy kitchen...

Tomorrow? maybe..