Painting brick... the most tedious part. Well, painting the brick is easy, it's getting inbetween each little crack that takes forever. At first I thought we wouldn't do the cracks, but after comparison, painting the cracks made everything look so much cleaner.
So began the process of putting a paintbrush around every brick, twice!
We were going to leave the wood ceiling as it was, but the more paint the we put up the more old and dirty it looked. So we primer-ed it and the effect was amazing. The beams going across had so much termite damage. We had to get up on a ladder and chip away the old wood with screw drivers and hammers. So our beams are no longer square, but it adds character!
We also had to paint in between each board on the ceiling, be very careful to no mix the red and white. Lots of standing on ladders, with kinks in the neck.
Ignore the moving in mess, but here is what one side of our kitchen looks like! Beautiful! We have touched up and replaced lighting since this picture, but here are the colors of our kitchen!