Painting is not my thing.....

.......but somebody has to do it as the spouse is busy 'working' on another project. I put one coat of Valspar (Lowe's home brand) of sheetrock primer on both the walls and the ceiling. I then put two coats of Valspar flat white ceiling paint on, of course, the ceiling. We'll buy the good stuff when we are ready to do the walls (Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams). I rolled everything on - no sprayer.

Once the second coat of white ceiling paint dried, it was time to install $250 worth of stamped metal trim kits into the can housings (what a ripoff, but oh well).

First, I started with 15 trim kits (I have more can lights in the basement than I do in the rest of the entire house!)

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The whole design is very flexible and adjustable - this is the first time I've worked with can lights. I adjusted the base of the light sockets up higher, and then installed the trim kits, which fit via two springs on either side. Once the springs are attached to the brackets in the can housing, the springs pull the trim flush with the ceiling (yeah I'm a newbie with can lights).



Next, I purchased 15 flood lights....



And here is the results. Tough to tell the difference with no trim kits and 60-watt bulbs vs. trim kits and floods, but trust me, its a big difference.

The playroom....



The media room.....



The outside walls of the bathroom.....





Here's the bathroom ceiling with the bathroom fan grill installed - in installs much light the can light trim does. If you click on and expand the image, you can see the ceiling texture we applied to the entire basement.



Oh, and below is the bar area all painted up. It might still look confusing, but trust me, this will be nice once completed....



Next up: Probably the window jamb extensions, window casing, and I'll soon order all three interior doors and the door casing.