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Paint by Numbers!
Remember those from when you were a kid? All the little shapes on the page neatly outlined and numbered with the corresponding legend indicating what colour to paint each shape on the page?
That’s what we could have used this weekend as my husband and I attempted our first paint job ever. Thankfully, his dad made the trip to the city to help us figure out what the heck we needed to do, what materials we needed to buy, and how to actually put the stuff on a wall.
I remember when we bought this house in April of 2004 we had BIG BIG BIG plans to have the entire house painted in about two days before we actually started moving our stuff in. We closed in August, and by the time we closed I was pregnant so painting would have to be put on the back burner.
Looking back, we were so naïve about painting. We’ve spent two full days on the bedroom already and it still isn’t finished. I have to blame my misconceptions about painting on those decorating shows on TV. How the hell do they get everything done so fast? They have a room painted in an hour on Trading Spaces. I suppose the paint fairies are all behind the scenes taping, cutting in and rolling while the rest of the actors workers bumble around on camera to make themselves look busy.
I wasn’t able to do much since I had the c-section not long ago (all the up and down motion would sure do a number on my stomach muscles), but at least I was able to help by painting the trim and doing all the cutting in.
We learned a lot from Mark’s dad. We learned that a nice even paint job can’t be rushed, that you make many many many trips to Home Depot throughout the day to buy all the things you need and keep forgetting, that people actually CLEAN their brushes and paint trays instead of being lazy and throwing them away like we had planed to do, that leaving the paint tray at the foot of the ladder is a disaster waiting to happen (yes, Mark stepped in it) and that NEVER, under any circumstances, haphazardly generate a playlist from your music collection when your mother and father in law are visiting without first verifying every single song for lyrical content.
Something about a song with lyrics like “Nasty Sex” while my husband, his mom, his dad and me are all hanging out in our BEDROOM is just SO INCREDIBLY wrong. Labels: All in the Family, Comic Relief, Home Improvement |
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Sure made me chuckle this morning. Thanks! I am just about at the end of my kitchen project, and it went on for far too long. I had people tell me, "Sure you can do the kitchen and the family room in one week." All I can say to that is - har, har, har! I moved the stuff out of my kitchen cupboards at the beginning of April, and just got dishes back in the cupboards this weekend, and we didn't even think about the family room!!!
Painting is the pits!!!! Sure is nice when it is done, but I don't enjoy the doing AT ALL!
Post a picture for us when it is all done.
Ahhhh, you are reminding me of why I enjoy renting so much! Pictures can do so much for a room...and really can be hung in an hour!
I just can't get the pic of mark stepping in the paint out of my mind! Ha ha ha! I used to do all of the painting b/t me and Trey. He is not so good at it!
Oh, and I saw the behind the scenes show for Trading Spaces once. There are about four hundred people that come in and paint and do all the big stuff off camera, while everyone else just kind of goofs off and paints a line here and there!
I'd love to see Trey's parents if that song came on! Oh, the memories that would come from that!
You have a great sense of humor!
"We’ve spent two full days on the bedroom already and it still isn’t finished."
Interesting sentence taken out of context.
What I think is funny is that your use of "nasty sex" brought the porn stuff to you. Don't you feel special?
I'm amazingly surprised by how much I enjoyed the process (even though I was just learning and made lots of mistakes). A sock full of white primer followed abruptly by me yelling "SHIT" certainly wasn't what I had in mind.
I feel the same way. I don't understand how some people can pick up a paint brush and be done in no time. I have been wanting to paint my bathroom but I just know that it is going to take longer then it should and once I start I know I have to finish.
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