Watching Paint Dry
Or to be more precise, watching spackle and joint compound dry. So much fun. OH, there is the noise of the roofers to help pass the time.
Yep, we took the plunge, searched for a house with the help of a relator and found a great one. The only trouble is, it needs some work. But, when we looked around for an alternative, we just could not find one we liked as well as this one. It has three real nice size bedrooms, two baths, a two car garage with lots of storage space. It sits on a .63 acre corner lot. And most exciting to us, it is hooked up for gas. So, I get to cook on a gas stove again.
The kitchen is nice size and has lots of storage, but it had WALLPAPER which I really don’t like. Hubby was going to pay someone to take it out, but the bid was way too high. The younger daughter and I got started and was able to pull off all the wallpaper in one day. There was a little texture under part of it and the rest has something like backerboard on it. But, once I primed it with Kiltz, we decided it did not need any more texture but just needed to straighten out a few spots here and there. Only those few spots keep mulitiplying!
Hubby got tired of watching me work on the spots and has taken over doing the putty knife and joint compound routine. He is very finicky on this which is good so I just gradually backed up nd let him take it over. Soon, though it will be time for color on the walls. I am going with a warm bamboo shade of beige – -can’t wait for all to be smoothed out and dray so I can start on the color!
Here is a photo of the kitchen in progress. See how messy I am! But, give me a break it is my first time ever painting or doing anything like this. As you can see, I maybe went overboard on the blue tape stuff. I sure hope it did its job as I went over it a few times here and there.
Having done the paint thing over and over and over (x-brother-in-law was a union painter) there is no such thing as too much ‘blue stuff’ (AKA painter’s tape). They do say, and I agree, painting is 90% prep and 10% painting. So cover everything you think might get paint on it and then cover everything else cause you’ll never guess how far paint can splatter when rolled or spilled! By the way I would cover the light with a plastic bag when you actually get started with the paint, you don’t want to accidently hit it with a paint roller when moving from one wall to another. Good Luck – LianeZ