Painting, painting, painting!

We love our house.  Love, love, love it.  Still, one reality of living in this house is the need to fix several things.

Let's just say that one of the previous owners really didn't know how to paint.  There are evidences of that all over this house but it was especially obvious in the downstairs bedrooms.

(I'll just put a quick photo in to illustrate my point.  This is a photo from the hallway by our living room.  You can see how they repaired walls - shinny paint on flat paint.  I am thankful that the color is the same, at least.  But, these errors just have to be fixed eventually!)

Well, all evidences of errors are finally GONE in two more rooms!  I finally painted our room and Lena's room this week.

As I painted, I wondered....

'why would you paint over plugs?'
'why would you Spackle a hole but not sand or prime the Spackle before painting?' 

'why would you choose hospital white paint for walls--do you really hate color that much?'
'why would you paint most of the wall, but not the 2 inches above the baseboard on one side of the room?'
'why would you paint wall color on the baseboards on the other side of the room?'

... and so on and so on.

I guess I should be thankful.  Their errors made repainting a must.  Now I have the color on the wall that I want.  Correction:  now I have the color I want on the ceilings, the walls, and the baseboards.  Phew!  That was a big job! 

Here are some before and after photos.

This is our room before.

This is our room now.

This was Lena's room with the previous renter's stuff in it.

This is another view taken when Lena's room when it was empty.

This is Lena's room now.

So much better!  One day I'll put curtains up and add more decorative stuff, but for now I am so very happy to have correctly painted rooms in nice, cheery colors.

What do they say?  It's the little things in life that make all the difference.  I guess this fits that category for me.  Ahh...