Painting a house

Yesterday I discovered a great application that I just had to play with. Sherwin Williams has a tool where you can upload a photo of your house and then paint it. If you find this as exciting as I do you can go and check it out here. So last night I painted a house and what better way to demonstrate what paint can do then to use before and after photos. Fortunately I had just the right house to paint! You may remember this house from my post earlier in the week - Would you buy this house? I used the application to transform the rooms that I showed you with some new colours. I only painted what could realistically be painted if you were to paint in real life. The walls, ceilings, architrave, skirting boards, cupboards, doors and wall tiles were painted. Floor tiles were left as they were, carpet remains unchanged but I did install new benchtops! These were changes that I felt if we were to buy the house we could realistically do ourselves for minimal cost and big impact. So working with the exsiting colours in the carpet and floor tiles here are the results (excuse my messy painting job but I think I need more practise): Before - After -

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What do you think?

Would you buy this house now?

Having painted our house before we moved in I know that it is not easy and not for everybody. I remember many evenings sanding the walls in our house to remove the navy blue suede effect paint in order to repaint the wall. My son's room was hot pink, not just one wall but the entire room! We had family help us paint and it took us over two weeks to get the whole house done! It was well worth it and doing it ourselves saved us a lot of money that we just couldn't afford to spend.

Hope you enjoyed my before and afters.

Have a great Friday everyone and a great weekend!

xx