Paint

We had the good fortune of meeting an paint expert at home depot who was kind enough to spend an hour with us teaching us how to paint a room properly. We are in no way experts so take the advice we're about to pass on for what it is: 3rd party relayed information, much of it will only be valuable to novices like ourselves.

Dan the painter confirmed what our Home Improvement 1 2 3 book (thanks Salina & Joe!) had already told us - do not skimp on the quality of paint and especially your painting tools. Prior to this information we had purchased the $2.35 cent value tray and roller at home depot to do our ceiling primer. When you're buying top of the line painting supplies it's really the difference of $5 in price but a world of difference in performance! The more expensive $7 wooley nap gave us better coverage and is virtually splatter free, and so ridiculously easy to clean out, the slightly more expensive roller actually holds onto the nap so it doesn't inch off the roller every other dip in the paint but the best buy yet was the grid and paint bucket that served as a replacement for the pour, dip, roll out tray method. Instead of pouring paint into the tray so often just pour your paint into a buck and slide the grate into it, genius!

Above is a sneak peak at the colors that will soon cover our walls. We love all of them with the exception of the green, after the sample sat on our master bedroom wall we decided to tint it lighter until we find a shade we can live with.