On Sunday, my friends (Marc, Kelley) and my BFF (Kerry) came back to our house to finish painting our first floor bathroom. The day before, Kelley and Kerry were only able to prime the room and paint the ceiling. Thus, all that was left to paint in our first floor bathroom were the walls.
Apparently, when it comes to home improvement projects, both Kelley and Kerry like to finish what they started. I guess you can say it is similar to how I like to complete things... like reading the god awful Twilight series. It just has to be done.
It also turns out that Kelley is quite particular about painting. Luckily for me, I suck at painting. I have never liked painting. I'll do it, but I don't like it. Kerry and Kelley could have painted the entire white ceiling the same color as the walls and I probably would not have cared. (And actually, they did get some paint on the ceiling while painting the walls, but it's okay.) I was just thankful that they even wanted to paint the bathroom for Karen and I in the first place. Plus, it's always a memorable moment to see Kerry and Kelley's faces speckled with paint.
Needless to say, Kelley meticulously went over the ceiling to touch up all of the errant paint marks. It was a little comical because she kept incessantly checking the paint while it was drying.
While that was happening, my friends (Renee and Christine) stopped on by for a quick visit. Both Renee and Christine were saddened that they could not have helped the day before when a whole slew of friends were helping out with projects. And truthfully, I'm not sure I would have had any more projects for them. As it was, I was stretching to come up with projects to subject my friends to. There are just some things I would never ask my friends to do. It would be like asking my friend (Hot Amy) to sweat... because she doesn't like to sweat.
Needless to say, Renee and Christine had decided to come down on Sunday instead. (For anyone curious, like Kerry, Renee lives on the north shore.) Both of them ended up helping Karen run a little errand at the grocery store. So it was great that they helped out.
It was good to see everyone on Sunday. And for anyone curious, Kelley and Kerry did finish painting the walls of the bathroom on our first floor. They did an amazing job. Thanks again Kelley and Kerry!
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Monday, November 3, 2008
I Suck At Painting
yesterday, karen and i did something we have not done in quite some time... we worked on our house. in particular, we painted our living room.
(pictured below is our newly painted living room.)
too bad i suck at painting. it's not that i hate the act of painting... well... okay, maybe i do. i think it's just that on my list of home improvement projects, painting is always near the bottom. i would rather build something or install something as opposed to paint something.
in this case, the living room definitely needed to be painted. our contractors finished adding the second floor addition to our house over a year ago. part of the renovation process was fixing the living room beneath the second floor.
prior to the second floor, our living room had a sloped roof midway through the room. the room looked awful. i believe the sloped part of the room was originally a porch that got added to the existing adjacent room. when our contractors added the second floor, they had to make up the sloped difference... and they did with extra wood and drywall and all that.
unfortunately, our living room went unfinished... until now. karen and i spent the entire day painting the room. i think it came out okay.
it's weird. looking back, i used to incessantly work on the house every weekend. i'd be cutting drywall, running wires, doing plumbing, etc. i'd sometimes work so much that i rarely saw my friends. i remember one time, i was in the attic and my friend (pam) stopped by. as i was a mess, covered in attic insulation, i could only say hello to pam from within the attic.
as time went on, i've gotten away from working on the house. there is still a laundry list of to-do's for the house and i've simply let the list get longer and longer. even when i was preparing the room for my son (braden), i worked only on his room. i didn't worry about the other projects.
after painting, i actually felt invigorated to tackle the long list of to-do's again. i'm not sure if that is a good thing or not. part of me is excited because i want to finish all the other projects and actually have a livable house. the other part of me is not that excited because i'm afraid that if i throw myself into all these projects, that i will not be able to spend time with everyone and simply enjoy life.
(pictured below is our newly painted living room.)
too bad i suck at painting. it's not that i hate the act of painting... well... okay, maybe i do. i think it's just that on my list of home improvement projects, painting is always near the bottom. i would rather build something or install something as opposed to paint something.
in this case, the living room definitely needed to be painted. our contractors finished adding the second floor addition to our house over a year ago. part of the renovation process was fixing the living room beneath the second floor.
prior to the second floor, our living room had a sloped roof midway through the room. the room looked awful. i believe the sloped part of the room was originally a porch that got added to the existing adjacent room. when our contractors added the second floor, they had to make up the sloped difference... and they did with extra wood and drywall and all that.
unfortunately, our living room went unfinished... until now. karen and i spent the entire day painting the room. i think it came out okay.
it's weird. looking back, i used to incessantly work on the house every weekend. i'd be cutting drywall, running wires, doing plumbing, etc. i'd sometimes work so much that i rarely saw my friends. i remember one time, i was in the attic and my friend (pam) stopped by. as i was a mess, covered in attic insulation, i could only say hello to pam from within the attic.
as time went on, i've gotten away from working on the house. there is still a laundry list of to-do's for the house and i've simply let the list get longer and longer. even when i was preparing the room for my son (braden), i worked only on his room. i didn't worry about the other projects.
after painting, i actually felt invigorated to tackle the long list of to-do's again. i'm not sure if that is a good thing or not. part of me is excited because i want to finish all the other projects and actually have a livable house. the other part of me is not that excited because i'm afraid that if i throw myself into all these projects, that i will not be able to spend time with everyone and simply enjoy life.
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