After five days of painting our living room/dining room, hallway and baby's room we are finished! Much of the appreciation goes towards my parents who offered to come help paint, we probably wouldn't have been able to get it done without them.
When I told people we were painting, which was a HUGE mistake by the way, EVERYONE gave me the same expression: "You're painting?! Should you really be doing that? Can you be around those fumes?" 1) yes we were painting. 2) yes it's fine if I paint and 3) they do make paint with decreased fumes and you can take the fumes out of paint by putting in 4 drops of vanilla extract. Our baby is not going to come out with one eye bigger than the other, or a combined huge nostril. It'll be just fine. We had plenty of ventilation to help out with the fumes.
Side note, apparently when you sit on the floor for long periods scooting along to tape and trim it activates a feeling in your ass such as a cramping sensation, known as sciatica causing a person to walk with a limp. It looks really funny when you stand there massaging your ass cheek. You also get equally awkward looks when you ask your husband to massage it for you. Note to self: ask someone else to tape and trim the base boards so you're not walking like a paint brush was shoved up your butt. Thankfully, that task is done and won't be need to be done, for hopefully, several years. By then I can teach my child how to tape base boards.
We decided to keep the guest room/babies room the same color, or a variation of. We didn't want it to match the living room, or be pink or blue. There's nothing really in it right now, but in a few months it'll be filled with babies belongings!
