The Day the Interior Got Painted.

After two weeks of almost constant painting on the boat I decided today was the day to finish it up. We were blessed with a hot and sunny day, the kids managed to get me out of bed by 6:30am, which means we were done breakfast and school by 10:00am and were free to head down to the marina.

Not everyone has Captain America drawing self portraits at their dining room table, just us lucky ones.

In between breakfast and putting away the dishes I managed to teach Aislinn a morse code lesson. We are enjoying our new homeschool curriculum. Lifepacs.

The kids have been stellar lately, I think it's partly thanks to the nice weather we have been having. We have been spending hours down at the boat and they have occupied themselves and gotten along while I got some painting done. After a few hours we took a candy break and headed down the road to Popsies, an old fashioned candy store downtown Oak Harbor.

Yum.

Had to take a break and go pick up Mark from work, arrived early and sat with the doors open and Frank Sinatra playing on the radio while the kids played around the flag poles.

After taking the kids to Tae kwon do, it was back down to the boat for dinghy rides and to finally finish the painting. The last spot of old, dirty, cream paint.

Tada!

And finally the floors.

The poor things have been pretty worked over.

Finished product, it looks so pretty.

Painted myself out the door.

And the inside painting is done! Now we can finally start moving in the cushions and table and matresses, etc... The moments we have been dreaming of.

The galley needs a countertop make over, which is my next project and will be another post.

The interior, we figure is around 300sqf and we used 1 1/3 gallon of  Topside paint. To paint every nook and cranny of it, not bad. The floors were enamel porch paint we got as a mis-tint from Home Depot so it didn't cover in one coat like the topside paint did, it required two coats but was only used in the boys cabin and on the floors and inside the benches. Unfortunately not being able to buy oil based paint now, it is hard to paint latex based paint over oil paint, even if it is enamel, the new paint doesn't adhere as great as you may want it to and I have a feeling it will ding easily, which is why we have rugs on order for most of the floors.