paint

we decided to paint the dining room a lovely shade of venetian gold from the locally owned benjamin moore store around the corner. 

venetian gold is the one on the left

first we had to buy a tinted primer. bummer, we just primed it in good old fashioned white no voc KILZ. ugh!!!  hint: those little triangles on the paint sample indicate this.
(duh. i mean who wouldn't know that little triangle = tinted primer required?)

primer

here is the primer! huh? that's going to make it easier to paint? i don't understand. 

but whatever. they are the experts! time for the first coat!

because silly me had to have the treehugger paint, this is how it looked at first.

first coat?!?!

we bought thebenjamin moore no voc natura water based paint. it went on like tempura paint. maybe there is a trick out there to this stuff, that i don't know about. i learned that it has to go on thick, but at $50 bucks a gallon, who wants to slather on that paint. you want to make it go as far as possible!

 but after two coats and then letting it dry overnight, this is how it looked this morning.

i am pleased. no, not just please - i think its bea-u-ti-ful!

 but i am not sure if the next rooms will have the natura paint...

it is very exciting that finally, we might actually have one almost completed room!