Warm and "Toast"y

As of yesterday, we have been painting for two weeks. It seems as if little progress has been made, but we have officially finished three rooms as of today. They are completely done including outlets and covers, ceiling fans, fire alarms and electrical power. It is so cool to walk in a room and just turn on the light. OK, I am not being completely honest, they still need trim and.....flooring and ........doors, but other than that they are completely done :)

However, being so busy with painting and the holiday, I have fallen behind in my posting of our progress. I hope to remedy that in the next few days. Tonight, I am posting our living room with its many challenges. Bob started at the beam doing the high work. We helped as we could but he was on his own for most of it. He had to cut around the beam with the paint after removing the covering and then he had to do it again for touch ups. Later he sanded it and then finished it with an oil based stain. If you know Bob, you know he doesn't like heights, but he has had to overcome his fear many times over during both the building of the house and the garage. When he is done working at these heights all of him is sore from the tenseness of being so high. The pictures below will give you an idea of what we are dealing with! The only thing he has to hold onto is the beam..........

Bob trying to look happy to be up there!

Farmer Girl took this picture of our work station on the scaffolding. The paint color is "toast" thus the name of my post.
Bob at a more reasonable height using the long armed roller. He was very happy to move down a level!
Once the ceiling was done in a flat toast and the walls in an eggshell toast (I grew up in home with mostly creamy walls. Every time my mom painted she said she was using eggshell. I thought that was the color NOT the sheen!), Bob began cutting in the Plymouth Brown eggshell for our accent wall behind the woodstove. This is the color I will see mostly from the kitchen. At least for most of this, he was able to sit down in a more comfortable position. That is NOT plymouth brown next to the beam although it looks like it. It is simply the shadow.
Once at a more comfortable level for The Scribbler, she joined him to help keep his roller full of paint. She doesn't really like those high ladders either! That's green Frogtape on her cheek.
Farmer Girl always sees things with a unique perspective and she got this great picture of work in progress on the floor with both our colors.

Below is our roaring woodstove with plastic cover removed and the wall complete behind it, blazing in it's 6th burn. We did 5 little burns to "cure" it, building up to this roaring one. It definitely will keep us warm in our "toast"y room.
The painting is done in this room and this is where we spent Christmas. We can remove the scaffolding as soon as we add the canned light trims AND find a ceiling fan that will work on this ceiling pitch....every one we have tried has failed to work with our greater than 45 degree angle. We know there has to be a one out there. We are just praying it doesn't cost too much!
Good night, Ellie~