Painting Continues

Feeling absolutely awful for our lovely painter right now.

He arrived at our place at 5.30AM on Friday and was still there at 6.30PM when I dropped by. At that stage, he had painted all of our ceilings, cornices, architraves and doors in Taubmans Elusive White and had started painting Bedroom 4 in Taubmans Apache Stone.

The darker colour Apache Stone was intended to be in the bedrooms only, and then Taubmans Marble Mist everywhere else.

Cut to Saturday and the poor guy is there at the same time again, continuing to paint Bedrooms 2 & 3 in Apache Stone.

Cut to Sunday, and suddenly there is Apache Stone through the entry, kitchen, laundry, bathrooms, garage, you name it. And then a little splash of Marble Mist in the master bedroom. With great difficulty, we had to explain to the guy (with his broken English) that the colours aren't correct. The moment he realised he had wasted his weekend by painting the wrong colours was devastating.

We ended up telling him to leave the home theatre as is (as it looks lovely dark), but that the main living areas and bathrooms were meant to be Marble Mist.

Cut to today......and the guy has painted over the Apache Stone in the main living areas and is looking fantastic. Until we get to Bedrooms 2, 3 and 4 where he has painted over the correct Apache Stone with Marble Mist.

I tried telling him to leave it as is as I prefer the lighter colour personally but he insisted that it is completed as per the plans.

So now our very pleasant painter is now at the house for another few days, repainting everything :( Feeling rotten about it all.

The painter only got given a PDF version of our colour selections which is pretty difficult for someone with extremely limited English to understand. Got a catch up planned with our SS tomorrow and as our painter will be there, I'm going in armed with a colour coded floor plan to help explain things.

Entry way - looking fab in Marble Mist

Master bedroom incorrectly painted in Marble Mist - I personally love the lighter colour, but the plans state that all bedrooms should have been Apache Stone and the guy is insisting on painting over it :( ughhh