Bit of Sugar

Well we are closed and new owners of this condo.  I have to be honest and let you know that I cried when I had to close the door on our sweet cottage home on Friday.  I will miss that sweet home.  

On to better adventures in life.

I let the kiddo's do a little graffiti on the wallpaper walls in the dining room before we started the shiplap.  Good bye wallpaper hello a bit of sugar color and some shiplap over the wallpaper.

I have to tell you I was worried about these really dark burgundy walls and how many coats of paint it was going to take to cover with my Behr color Bit of Sugar I picked out.

I have always loved Behr paint but I was really impressed with how well the white Bit of Sugar came out in only two coats over that dark burgundy.  I did not use any primer the primer is in the paint already.  We wanted a 5 gallon size and I normally get Behr's high end Marquee paint but Home Depot did not have it in the 5 gallon size so we went with their lower end paint with primer and I have to say I was quite impressed with the coverage.

It covered the dark burgundy walls really well.  As you can see the carpet is all torn out and ready for new wood floors.  Made painting so much easier too.  No worries if you drip a little here and there.

That graffiti wall of wallpaper is now covered in shiplap.  It was fun to try shiplap.  It was really quite easy to hang.  The shiplap needs a coat of the bit of sugar.  It is just primed in the picture.  Bit of Sugar is one of the top three white paint colors that is perfect for shiplap.  We got our shiplap at Home Depot.  We did MDF shiplap a lot less expensive and it is primed and ready to paint.

The bathroom was recently renovated but I did not like the olive green color on the walls so they also got the Bit of Sugar color.

The old appliances are moving out and new ones coming in this week after the floors go in.  I wanted to take down all the upper cabinets and have shiplap on these walls and open shelves.  We ran into some snags like the cabinets are not stock or normal sizes.  So to replace these cabinets on the bottom would cost us a small fortune so we decided to make them work with a fresh coat of paint and new hardware.  Where the refrigerator is out in the right corner of the pictures a new drawer cabinet will be inserted and the new microwave hung under the smaller cabinets.  As you can see there is no drawers to speak of in this kitchen.  I need drawers for my silverware and utensils so a new cabinet will be put in the place of the refrigerator.  The refrig is being relocated to another place in the kitchen and a pantry added.

Right now the old double oven and old refrigerator are sitting in my living room.  They will be picked up and given to Goodwill.  I have to say I was sad to say goodbye to the double oven sitting in this picture.  It is 25 years old but the seller never used it but twice in the 25 years she owned this condo.  She never cooked in an oven or on the stove.  Not sure how that worked out for her but this old vintage double oven is in perfect condition.  It would be so fun for someone with a lake home that wants the vintage look.  Hope both the old refrigerator and stove will help someone out.  The dishwasher was not working so that is being tossed and she never had a microwave!  So our kitchen will be getting all new appliances.

Since we decided to paint the cabinets we decided to use a paint sprayer.  OMG it is the best thing ever.  The paint went on smooth and even and it shaved a lot of time off the painting.

This is a cute shirt I found for Terry.  I always kid him about being the CEO of all our reno's.  What a fun and cute shirt for him.

This is the color of the new floors going in starting tomorrow.  I think the light oak color will warm up the rooms with the white bit of sugar walls.  I cannot wait to show you all the changes.  We have accomplished a lot in these past three days.
Painted the entire Condo, shiplapped the dining room wall and started to renovate the kitchen.  We are hoping after the floors get put in this week and appliances delivered we can move in maybe on Thursday this week.

For now we are staying with my daughter and two grandgirls.  We have a house full.  Four dogs, two kids, my SIL and daughter Jen and Terry and I.  Terry and I are sleeping in my granddaughter's bed with all the barbies and stuffed animals.  The other night I rolled over to find Ken staring at me from the Barbie Dream house!!!!

It is fun family time but I will be so happy to be in my own bed and have all this reno stuff accomplished.  We have met a lot of the neighbors and they all seem so very nice.

Have a great week.  I will thank all of you that leave sweet comments ahead of time.  Without my computer in the condo yet and all the busy days I will not be able to respond to all your comments.  Please know I appreciate all of you that take time to leave a comment on my blog posts.  So very appreciated.