The last room we had to paint was the front living room. It had interesting wallpaper in it but which had been ruined by the holes drilled by the airfoam guys - so it had to be painted over. We started with a coat of undercoat. Bunnings weren't terribly helpful about how to paint over wallpaper. I think you're supposed to strip it off rather than painting over it. But it was in pretty good nick so we figured painting over it would probably be ok. In the end we just went with all purpose undercoat sealer.
Steve spent weeks then painting different colours on the walls to pick the best one. We decided on blue since the curtains were already made and they are shades of grey and finally settled on a colour called Twizel. Probably after the the colour of the lake at Twizel which is a lovely milky blue shade due to the rockflour.
We are getting much better at painting (annoying in a way, since this is the last room we had to do), and we have figured out that it's best to paint the coving and skirtings first (if they are a different colour to the walls and ceiling) because it's much easier to cut in against a protuding piece than try to paint a protusion without getting paint onto the flat walls and ceiling.
It took us about three full days to paint the room, one day for the undercoat and then two to do the room. Fortunately this shade covered the undercoat really well and two coats were more than enough.
Here's the paint job against the lovely curtains Mum made. Next up: carpets. Annoyingly as soon as you solve one problem, what is still to be done becomes really obvious. In this case the paint spattered floorboards desperately need covering up.
And since we now have a red room, a green room and a blue room we can probably open a B&B....
