Saturday, June 26, 2004
The Painting Saga (Part Four)
Yes, the walls are a bit easier ... but they're still taking a LLLOOONNNNGGGG time!!
Now, my brother is a fabulous painter. His home looks gorgeous, and he does all of the walls there himself. So ... one day a while back I asked him about painting. I told him about my anxieties about painting, that I had never done any painting before, and that my biggest fear is how long it would take to do things like taping. He laughed, and insisted that he NEVER tapes. Never. He told me not to worry about things like taping, and go ahead and just paint.
Well, I figure that all of the books that I'm looking at about painting say to tape. And ... taping makes a lot of sense to me. SOOOOoooo, of course I taped. And now that I have, I can't even imagine NOT taping. How does he do it!!!???
Anyway ... when I was at Home Depot on Thursday buying a second gallon of white for the ceiling, I walked past TWO tape displays, thinking, "I ought to buy another roll of tape. ... No, I probably have enough." TWICE!! Did I buy the tape. No.
I started taping the newly painted ceiling around 8:30 yesterday (Friday) morning. By about 9:00 I ran out of tape ... with only about 7 feet of ceiling left to tape. Ugh!! Well, I know that I need to tape again when I paint the moldings, door frames, etc. so I got dressed, drove to Home Depot, and bought another roll of tape. Sigh!!
Back home around 10:00, I finished that last seven feet of ceiling and started putting on the PRIMER at about 10:15. By 1:00 I still had TWO WALLS left. TWO!!!!! Ugh!! I ate lunch, and got back to work, and painted the last two walls, and was done by about 4:30. Okay ... is it supposed to take that long??????
So ... today, Saturday ... I'm hoping to eat my breakfast within the next couple of minutes, and then get back to work on the first coat of color (blue, by the way) for the walls. Maybe, just maybe, it will go a bit faster today and I'll be able to put both coats on. One can hope!!
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