Day 5

Can you tell the difference between these two colors?

Extra points if you correctly figure out which one we picked for the guest room.  The answer is at the bottom of this post.  We wish we could do a poll to see which one you all prefer.  As several of you guessed, we ditched the Caucasian Skin Tone/Puke color from yesterday.  You can see the very slight difference a little better in this picture, taken in bright daylight during the afternoon:

More painting today.  Tony and Anthony (with a little help from Andrew and Will) had the kitchen, dining room and living room all dressed in yellow before 9am (they tell me this is a little hyperbolic, but it was early!).  We added a second coat later in the day.  Here's how they look:

Check out how great the kitchen looks!  Imagine it's not covered in plastic.  Will and Anthony are contemplating its great beauty.  This is where Fran was sitting to remove wallpaper in one of the early pictures on the blog - look for the pansy border in the old pics.

 We had to build a big scary bridge for Anthony to paint some of the tricky parts of the living room/upper hall.  The problem with houses that are both tall on the inside and have an open floor plan is that it's hard to  reach some spots, we are learning.  Here he is, walking on air:

More work on the paneling and trim on the lower level; someday this will all be done.  There is a really enormous amount of paneling and trim downstairs. But the fireplace has emerged!  You can finally see it without all that plastic sheeting on top of it.  There's brown paper over the right side; it doesn't just end like that.

The trim in our bedroom is done, not that you can really tell from a picture - it went from white to white.  Still, we like it.

Then we chose one of those colors on the guest room wall and painted the whole room in it.  We really like how it turned out.

Forgive the painting detritus in all the rooms; we are too tired now to make the rooms all pretty before we take pictures for you.  And truthfully we never were very good at that anyway.

Answer: We picked the one on the right - Benjamin Moore's Stone Harbor.