Another HUGE THANK YOU to all that came and helped out this evening (James, Liana, Sachiko, Mariana & Marie and myself:)).

We made a lot of progress today! Finished the entry and stairwell as well as the lobby and most of upstairs. We painted the accent wall, doorframes, and doors and made sure that all of the Butter Rum had 2 coats of paint.Tomorrow I'll paint the first coat of the bathroom and hallway, and hopefully we can get a move-on with the main hall on Sunday!

We also picked out the tile since the original tile we chose was out of stock. Wish I got a better picture of it, but this is the best I've got:

♥See you all soon♥

Ok, ok. For real this time :)

Sooo judging from the lack of response to my previous message/post no one else thought my little joke was very funny.

That's ok, I can congratulate myself just fine.

Elyse, you cunning and clever lady of wit! How could you be so cruel and tease everyone with a not-yet-existent picture of the new paint at the church?!

Well, it was just a joke:) and a very funny one at that! Hahahaha, good one! But the best part is I really am going to post a picture. But first we must give our thank you's!!  First of all, I want to thank the lovely ladies who came and helped out last night and set a sensational foundation layer of paint -- Stephanie, Brianna, Laura, Amelia and myself -- thanks!

And secondly thanks to those who helped out tonight and basically finished the entryway and lobby as well as the upstairs portion-- Sachiko, Marie, Kasia, Chris, Nick, and myself :) We did a bang up job!!

Also, before the pic, news on tomorrow's painting party! Yes, you read that right!

PAINTING PARTY #4

Friday, September 30, 2008

5:00 PM

We'll be painting second layers on accent walls and start on the main hall! 

Now, without further ado, here is our beautiful painting job (click the photo to zoom).

Come by tomorrow and see it in person!

Wanna see the new layer of paint at the church?


It's pretty spectacular!


 Come by tomorrow night (Thursday) at 5 PM to get a good first hand look!  :D
Heck, bring your paintin' clothes and a good attitude and stay a while. We've got plenty of paint rollers to go around :)

Just a reminder: Painting Party tomorrow night 5:00 pm at the church!

We got the paint this morning.. there's a lot of it and it's ready to go!

Don't forget to wear painting clothes and bring extra rollers/trays/paintbrushes/dropcloth or whatever you can bring.

We'll probably have to do a little bit of taping, but really the vast majority of the work will be actual painting. Hope to see you there!

...Don't mind if I do! (Say it again)


THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR ALL OF THE HARD WORK TODAY! I'd shout it from the mountaintop if I were on one:) This is going to be such a fun process. I can't even wait for all of the fun to be had.  And I know it's going to turn out beautifully.

Thanks to everyone for moving the huge sink out of the big hall, for moving the furniture in the conference room aside so that we could move even more stuff in there. Thanks for moving the sink and the toilet (and taking it in stride when toilet water--or at least, hopefully it was water--dripped on your feet. Thanks to our manly men who sorted through the wood in the back for stuff we could use again, and to those who did the sweeping and cleaning up. And thanks to all for anything else I may have missed. But thanks especially to all of you for making it fun :)

So! Painting party #2: Wednesday night at 5:00 pm. We will be painting, so bring your painting clothes! Also, if you have extra paintbrushes or rollers laying around your house, please feel free to bring them! I would recommend writing your name on them if you want to bring them back home. :)

Also, painting party #3 is also tentatively scheduled for Thursday evening at 5:00 pm for those of you who can't make the Wednesday night and would like to. I'm sure there will be plenty of painting to go around!

Can't wait!

:D

We all know how long it has taken to get even this far in the church's renovation process. I believe it started circa 2005.

We've primed and painted, demolished and constructed, scraped the floors and installed new doors. Ready for more? It's just gotten exciting.

Tile installation starts next week; before that happens we need to do some serious painting. Colors are all picked out and today I measured wall dimensions in all directions to give us an idea on how much paint we're going to need to buy.

Yeah, it took me a while. But we're just about there. I put the dimensions and formulas in an excel sheet and it looks like it is going to take 7.5 gallons of Behr Butter Rum (for most of the walls), 1 gallon of Behr Firecracker (for 2 accent walls), and a little over 4 gallons of Behr Lightweight Beige (for ceiling and molding) to get this thing done (check my math here).

So! Who wants to have a painting party?!?! Get psyched up, because it's gonna happen cap'n. This Sunday after service and lunch, put on your paint clothes and get ready to get your painting groove on. We'll keep going until we pass out...or until its done, whichever comes first.

Need more inspiration? Check out this infomercial that I made just for the un-inspired. 

The video is also good if you just want to get an idea of what the post-paint-and-tile building is going to look like. Of course, paint colors and dimensions are not exact in the video. 

See you Sunday :)

Colors from behr.com