Well, today was the beginning of the painting – I started by priming absolutely everything, and drywall definitely drinks primer – I ended up using around 2.5 gallons for the room – that’s including the ceiling, though, which is a big surface. The humidity thwarted my schedule a little bit, because it’s making the paint take forever to dry – so today, all I got to actually paint was the ceiling, which I finished about ten minutes ago. I’d also forgotten that the 3 doors in the corner (side door, basement, and studio) all needed to be painted too, so that made it a bit more complicated. But anyway, the room is currently veryvery white, and tomorrow I’m hoping to at least get one coat on the doors, and maybe a coat of color on the walls, too – I’ve got other commitments during the day tomorrow, so we’ll see how much time I have. The ceiling’s what I really wanted to do before the floor guys come, because it’s really hard not to get paint on the floor when painting an entire ceiling, and I don’t have a dropcloth as big as the room.

So today’s photos look like this (sorry for the change in white balance- these are from the iPhone because my camera’s battery died just as I took the first shot).