I could not pass up this deal,

 You know when something happens that you know it must have happened for a reason?  Well this week something happened and basically all the stars aligned!!

With having a good clean out and renovating the laundry room the rest of the basement is not looking a bit drab.  However it wasn't on the top of the list to deal with the rest of the basement.  There were a couple of sections of main room walls that needed touching up with paint.  I found the paint that the people we bought the house from had left us, but as it was from 2009 I wasn't sure how it was going to look.  Turned out it was a solid lump in the bottom of the tin.

I took a photo of the lid, with the thoughts I need to pick up a gallon of paint some time:

I have been selling a bit of stuff on Facebook Marketplace this month; there will be a post about it all in a couple of days.  While I was looking up prices of some stuff I was selling I came across a post for paint.  A painter/decorator's client must have got him to buy four gallons of paint and didn't like the colour when he started to put it on the walls.  I looked at the name of the paint and thought the name sounded familiar.

Yep, the exact same name and brand as our paint on our basement walls, from the exact same store.  I love the paint colour in the basement as it is nice and neutral.  I offered $125 for all four cans and he accepted and he even dropped them off at our house.  That paint should be $76 per can plus 13% tax, = over $85 a can.  What a deal!

So guess what I am going to be busy with 🙄  Oh well, nothing like keeping busy I suppose..........

Fresh-ie

That is the name of the paint colour I chose for our laundry room.  

I bought the BeautiTone Paint from Home Hardware.  2 gallons to paint a 12' x 16' room and it took around 1 1/2 gallons to do two coats.

I have used BeautiTone before and have always been very pleased with how it goes on and the feel of the walls afterwards.  It is also a Canadian brand.  I paid just under $85 CDN for the 2 gallons.  So the same price as buying from Home Depot and cheaper than buying the Benjamin Moore brand paint.

This is the colour chip.  You can see it here also on their website.

I wonder who comes up with the names?  I do agree it is a fresh looking colour.  Sort of an aqua/pale green/pale blue mix, my typical colours I always choose!

Hubby has been on with this laundry room reno for a few months now, and we still have a ways to go.  He was at a point though, that he had finished the drywalling and sanding of the drywall, and I was fed up of the dust 🙄  So I wanted the walls primed to stop the dust and decided while I was in the mood, I would paint the walls at the same time.

The next job is to put the flooring down, then the drop ceiling, electrical/lights, baseboards, door and window trim, new sink and cabinet to install and new cupboards to install.

So I will update you with photos when that's done.  I want it done by the beginning of June 2026.  It's keeping him out of mischief, so I am happy with that!

Great mail day

 Thursday was a good mail day for me.

First of all I got this in the mail:

So on Saturday I went to pick up a sample pot of paint for our bathroom.

I also got this in the mail:

Look at all the Wrendale Designs.  There are a lot more than these two pages.

Such pretty landscapes and buildings.

I think I will get a couple of the shoe kits next time I order from Bothy.  

Now the only problem with these goodies are the price and the time it takes to make them.  There are so many that I love, and not enough time in the day to stitch them all!!

Chaos

 chaos

NOUN

1. "complete disorder and confusion."

That's how everything is at the moment in our home on the main floor.  I am busy decorating/painting the main floor.  We have discovered that we cannot do as much in one day as we used too.  So we painted the ceiling on Monday.  That about did us in.  Luckily, we neither smoke or cook a lot of greasy food, and neither did the people before us, so it only took the one coat.

Due to my hands being bad, I am splitting up the rest of the painting so I do a bit at a time.  I don't like the house being so messy, but what else can you do?  I am using Sico Muse paint, which is on sale until September 22nd.  It is still $52 per gallon which is still expensive if you ask me.  We have one feature wall, which will be the Grey Fin; that actually looks more green with a grey undertone.  The rest will be the Avocado Cream Colour.  If you click here and here, you can see the actual colours on the website.

Our main floor is all open concept.

Dh has made a moveable platform, so we can paint above the stairs that go down to the basement.

This is the kitchen end of the main floor.

It's a big job, but when done it will be well worth it.

The 1980's called and they want their paint colour back...LOL

Busy painting the back room downstairs a delightful Seafoam Green colour.

Now before you ask, no I didn't go out of my way to pick this colour, I thought I would try and save some money by picking up a mistint colour and when I saw this colour it was darker.  So mixed in a can of white and out popped Seafoam Green...........am I lucky or what!

The saving grace in all of this is that the room has no windows and it is closed off with a door.  So unless you want to go to this particular room, or the cold cellar, you don't see it.

I think when I get the whole of the room finished it will look fine.  I am painting all the trim and doors white and we are putting down a vinyl plank floor that looks like wood (I think).

At the end of the day we are using this room for mainly storage, and possibly a sewing room.  Now should I paint the rest of the basement peach.............okay, okay I am joking, it will be builder's beige, except on my paint chart it's called Feather Stone.

I do have a recommendation for primer/undercoat for the folk in Canada and the States.  I used Behr Premium Plus Primer.  I got it from Home Depot and was very happy with it.  You are buying it for it's sealing powers more than how white it goes on the walls.  There is not a lot of pigment in the primer, so it goes on very patchy.  However I found because it seals the walls well, it does not suck in as much paint when you come to put your top coats of paint on.

I will show finished photos of the rooms when done.