The Family

The big push to pain the house inside is over. We did not get as much done as i wanted or would have expected for the length of time we worked on it, but i always underestimate how long something like this is going to take. There was more prep work than i expected, partly because Trip did things to the ceiling that i would not have known to do and partly because we kept finding new problems that needed to be dealt with before we could paint.

We finished the living room, finished the ceiling and walls but not the trim in the foyer and dining room and back bathroom, finished the ceiling in the laundry room and hall, and primed the ceiling in the kitchen. The new texture on the ceiling in all these rooms made the ceiling a bigger deal than it would normally be. Some of the rooms had to be textured twice because we did not like the way they did it the first time. Those rooms were particularly hard to do. They do, i suppose look a little heavier textured, though i don’t think it is obvious enough that one would notice unless one was looking for it, but when it comes to putting that first coat, the primer, on, it makes a huge difference.

My goal today, my bare minimum goal, is to move the paint and tools which are now in the dining room to another place so i can vacuum the room. I need to paint the baseboard so i need to pay particular attention to the edges. Then i would like to get the baseboards done. If i have to wait till tomorrow for the window and door trim that will be ok because i can do those later. If the baseboard is done i can more the furniture back and replace the plastic, paint, and tools. They will be living in there for a while longer.

It is going to be slow going but hopefully i will make a little progress each day.