Thoughts on Painting

I think I started painting almost a month ago. It's been so long I don't really remember. All I know is that I'm sick of it, but I should be finished by this weekend.

It's taken me so long because I'm trying to keep the kitchen as useable as possible. If I had of packed up everything in the kitchen into boxes, taken all of the doors and drawers off at the same time, I probably could have finished in a week or two. Instead, I've been working on one cabinet unit at a time. I take everything out of one cabinet and stack it on the bed in the spare bedroom, then I get to work sanding, priming, and painting. It takes a few days to get each cabinet unit finished after waiting for the paint to dry between coats.

After I got the first section of cabinets painted, Jason came home and said, "Wow that looks just like your mom's kitchen."



Shut up. No one asked you. That's a completely different color.

Now I'd like to take a moment to complain about Kilz.

In order for the primer to stick to the old polyurethane, I'm being forced to use is Kilz Odorless, which is oil based. I hate it. I'm sure that it smells less than Original Kilz, but it is in no way odorless. False advertising, y'all. I've decided that it smells like shoe polish with a hint of fish. I've never used Original Kilz before, only the latex Kilz. I have no way of comparing the two oil-based Kilz, but compared to the latex, that stuff sucks. It's too runny, it dries so fast you can't touch-up spots you just painted, and it leaves really bad brush marks.

I've tried using both brushes and foam rollers. Brushes leave very obvious brush streaks. With rollers I expect an orange-peel finish, but what I get with Kilz Odorless is a sandpaper finish. No bueno. This house isn't my perfect forever house and I'm too lazy to sand between coats. I've opted to paint everything with a brush instead of the roller because I'd rather the next homeowner look at my handiwork and say, "My, those are some brush strokes," instead of, "Did they paint over sandpaper?"