Progress!

We started priming last night. All of the new drywall is soaking up the primer like crazy, so we're planning on going back over it all tonight with another coat of primer, then we'll try to get the first coat of paint up. The gray spots all over the walls are our final attempt to patch and smooth out the imperfections in the walls. We'll sand them all down again before we prime and paint tonight. Tomorrow will be the last coat of paint, then we get to move the cabinets in and get them ready to hang Saturday morning!

The light switch outlet used to be in the middle of this wall. Not sure who decided that was a good idea, but because we were redoing all of the electrical in this room anyway, we moved the switches closer to the doorway. It's so much nicer!

Our new pantry space with the finished doorways! Joe is planning on hanging drywall inside the pantry, as there's not much support right now to hang the shelves. Then we'll put an actual bi-fold door up, and it's going to look 10 times better than before!

Joe has gotten really good at mudding the walls. On this wall he moved an electrical outlet for the fridge, and closed up the hole in the wall where the old outlet for the stove had literally fallen out of the wall. He's really careful and in some places done as good or better than the finish work the contractors did!

We know we don't need to paint the walls where the cabinets are going to be hung, but we decided to go ahead and prime everything. Before we started, there were the following residual colors in the kitchen, detailing its previous lives: light burnt orange, clay red, (I think these two must have matched the awful clay tiles on the floor!), yellow, two different wallpaper remnants, and gray. Add in the new gray drywall and white mudding compound, and it was getting quite ugly!

Here's hoping that the next pictures I post are of the finished painted room, with cabinets that have been hung!