Kitchen painting

Over the weekend, Eric n I had a big project to finally start painting the kitchen. 

However, it is not as simple as: slapping the paint on a brush and smearing it on the wall. 

This was what we did:

All the shelves, tables, racks... Everything which were removable and exposed, had to be removed. 

Because of the location, kitchen, we had to clean the walls, trims n doors AND ceiling with sugar soap. It was to clean off all grim, dust, dirt on walls and surfaces. 

The original trims around doors and walls were painted with glossy paint. Therefore we had to sand them down with sand paper. 

There were also many bumps and holes that needed filling-in on the walls. The compound for filling-in had to be sanded down to give a smooth surface, then painted over with a layer of undercoat. 

*Take a deep breath*

Then we can start thinking about painting. *exhausted*

The above process took us two days. And that's not with painting yet!

On Monday, we started painting the kitchen, starting from the ceiling. 

These were our equipment for the job.

I'm all geared up for the ceiling painting. Eric had not done painting before, so I had to take up the rolling brush, while he helped with the trims area which the rolling brush cannot reach. Took us a good 4-5 hrs to paint the ceiling. 

After that, we use the same ceiling paint to paint the ceiling cornice. 

As it was painted over by dark glossy paint, we had to go over the paint three times! 

We even had to take turns to eat our dinner as we did not want the paint to dry out. 

Finally at 10pm ish... It's done! 

Our brand new ceiling. Love the clean and white surfaces. 

We had to stop painting since then because of his parents arrival from overseas. Can't wait for them to leave tomorrow for their holiday, so we can continue with completing the job. 

Kcan