Home Improvement

We painted the dining room navy five or six years ago. Today the day to paint over that deep pigment has arrived. Don will add a chair rail, and we have picked out two coordinating paint colors for the wall. We are applying the medium shade to the lower wall first. I thought it might be better to apply a primer coat to minimize the bleed-through of the deep blue shade, but that was not the plan. We are just going right ahead with the actual colors. A lighter shade from the same color card on the upper part of the wall will finish off the paint.
Don will install the chair rail following the paint application. We are facing the ugly reality that all the trim including a pair of doors and the ten-foot wide built-in are past-due for repainting. For the moment, we opted for the primed chair rail so we can put off that daunting job for a little bit longer. That's a job that is bound to expand since the doors open onto another room which has trim that connects to two other rooms with trim and matching doorways, and so on...
We have a couple of other day projects on our list, but today is all about the dining room.
3 hours later:
Paint is bad. Paint is very, very bad. Did I mention that our ceilings have this strange little niche that dips in about 2 mm where the ceiling meets the wall? That little blip is the cause of much craziness on my part each time we paint that room. Every time we take on one task, Don and I both see other tasks that need doing. It can become a little overwhelming. Did I mention that we had a herd of 12-13 year-old boys and a pair of first graders here, and Katie waiting on a phone call from Zach rather impatiently for the better part of the day? Lunch was a haphazard affair of "find-it-make-it". Don is putting the furniture back in the room now. The extra kids have gone home, Katie is at Zach's until 5:30, and I have no idea what to make for dinner. I wonder if we'll get the chair rail up in time for Easter... or Christmas?