Painting Party!!!

We had several friends come out to help, not many with prior painting experience but hey... no complaining about free labor. We managed to paint about 75% of the interior walls.

So here are some pictures after day one:

One idea that we had was to paint one of the walls facing the kitchen as a chalkboard.

After lots of pressure from our friends, we decided to make it a magnetic wall too! I do think it turned out pretty well, though the paint kind of went on a bit like tar. Not much fun to wash off.

In the end we wished we were able to smooth out the wall texture first and that maybe the 'magnetic-ness' was a bit stronger. We are only able to get thin magnets to work but it is still a neat feature. We use it for grocery lists, notes and occasionally for our friends to let out some of their imagination and creativity.

And here are some pictures after day two: