I have finally finished all of the trim and painting in the dining room that needed to be done before I started on the mural.  After having only primer on the walls for over a year, this feels like a huge accomplishment.  I don’t know why painting the ceiling and installing trim made me procrastinate for so long, but it’s done and now I can get to the fun part. This is how the dining room wainscoting looked after it was installed and caulked.  At this point, it looked pretty sharp and I was considering painting it white. I don’t know if I can explain why, but this house seems to like colored trim and doors, so I decided to follow my gut and move forward with my plan for painting it Oval Room Blue. As I expected, it took two coats and I used the Estate Eggshell finish.  It’s

Well, I finally did it.  I’ve been dragging my feet for over a year, but I painted the dining room ceiling.  I have been hung up on working on this room just because I knew the ceiling had to be done first and I just really didn’t want to do it.  It wasn’t the painting I was dreading, but all of the prep work of moving things out and making sure the furniture and floors were protected.  I’m usually pretty casual when it comes to using dropcloths, but when painting a ceiling, I have to be more careful.  Saturday morning was dreary and cold, so I almost talked myself into a low-key day, but I was ready to have this job behind me.  I knew it would be a relief, so I pulled out the dropcloths, removed all of the small stuff from the room, got out the paint and