Ready to paint!

That's a wrap.  The drywall is finished and primed.  We chose to do Level 4 flat walls so it required three, sometimes four, rounds of mud and sanding.  The ceilings are painted.  If you've painted a house, you know that the most difficult color, by far, is the white of the ceilings and trims.  People say, "white is not a color," but believe me, it is!  And for some reason too many whites lean taupe.  A sad, sad thing.  (I hate taupe.  It is almost as bad as building a brand-new house and saying, "I think I'll paint the walls khaki.")

The best, clean white we've found:  Sherwin-Williams "Extra White", SW 7006.  It goes with green, blue and gray.  It kind of just disappears (and isn't that what white is supposed to do?) but can also hold its own in battle.  Contradictory, yes.  But it's just what we needed.