Friday, July 13, 2007

Painting

I've spent this week painting. When we took the carpet out of the living room and dining room, there was a rather large gap between the wall and the floor (we assume that trim was taken away when the carpet was laid). We lived with it that way for a few months--it takes that long to get motivated to measure everything and make a sojourn to Home Depot--which is my least favorite store other than Wal-Mart--to buy the supplies needed to fix it. Then it took a few weeks for Matt to accomplish the job, since he had to measure and saw pieces to fit, move furniture and nail them into place. But at last it was done. Next problem? The trim is pine, unfinished, and the baseboards are white...

Therefore, I spent some time every day this week painting said trim--and then the baseboards, since when I put fresh white paint on the trim, the baseboards that I painted when we moved in last August looked dirty. Plus it's really amazing how, when you get close, you see all kinds of dings and flaws (not to mention a few pencil or crayon marks, black marks from shoes, and a couple of unmentionable things that our cat Mimi managed to sneeze out!) Then, of course, when you're painting the baseboards, the window frames and doors need just a bit of touching up....lastly, when we painted the house in 10 whirlwind days last summer, the only things we left unpainted were the stairwells to the basement level and the 2nd floor, and the bathroom and kitchen ceilings, which were in decent shape. I promised myself to get those stairways done "soon"--is 11 months soon?? Anyway, everything looks great now that I'm finally finished. The trim looks terrific and the stairways are bright and clean rather than the hideous shade of tan/cigarette smoke that they formerly were. Now to do those ceilings.....

Jen

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