With Ann's parents still in town last weekend and with paper still covering much of the flooring and counters in the house, we figured it was a good time to finish painting the ceilings in the house. We'd of course already primed and had even painted all the bedroom ceilings, but we had most of the first floor left to go as well as the upstairs loft.
With the extra hand of Jake to help paint and with Cheryl to watch the kids, we decided to go for it. It started simple enough on Saturday. Ann and Jake got to the house first and started to cut in. I came in a little later because I needed to get some shopping (and marinating going) for dinner. (Yes, for some reason, even though I knew I'd be spending the majority of the day painting, I still decided it'd be a good idea to cook up a big dinner of chili glazed country ribs, fried beans, a watercress salad and these cheesy, fried torpedo things....not to mention fresh salsa and gauc... yum...)
So, from about 9am, we painted and painted. We broke for lunch and did our traditional DQ, but otherwise, we were focused. We got through a single coat everywhere we intended to and even put a second coat in the main living area. The last person out left around 4pm and we felt pretty good about our progress, but we knew we had a second day in front of us.
One yummy Mexican dinner later, we got back at it Sunday morning. We didn't have as much to paint, but with the errands we either knew we had to run or found out later, things slowed a bit. First, we needed to find painters tape. Sunday morning just before 9am apparently isn't a good time to do that. Amazingly, we found some at Wallgreens. Next, once we got started, we quickly realized we needed new rollers (they didn't save well from the previous day) and tray liners. So, Ann and her dad were off to get those while I applied a second coat up stairs. They got back and we all got going again. Next, we figured out we were going to be short of paint. Well, to keep things moving, we sent Jake to get a couple gallons.
Somewhat surprisingly, we did all that and managed to get all our painting done by 1pm. I guess we didn't have a ton to do, but there sure seemed to be a lot of running around. It's funny, but Jake was a big help not because he did much painting, but because he was there to do things like taping or running errands or there to put a ladder in place so we could paint over the staircase. I guarantee we would have added hours to the job w/out his help.
Once we were done, we were off, back to the house with enough time for me to cook up Sunday's feast of Indian Food (pork vindaloo, coconut green beans and a nice fried okra yogurt salad).
So, you're thinking, hey that's great, you painted! Well, we showed up at the house on Tuesday morning for our regular construction and meeting and were met with a pretty depressing sight. In nearly every room we painted, we could still see the overlap marks from the rolling. Not only that, but that paint we bought on Sunday...apparently different enough that it was pretty obvious where we mixed it with the stuff we started with. So, it was very apparent, we weren't done. It was something we were pretty excited to check off the list and know we not only had to figure out how to fix it, but then actually fix it. I suppose that could be as simple as putting up another coat, but who's to say that third coat would yield the same results. I think a call into the experts is due. Anyway...
Since pictures of white ceilings don't look great or are even that interesting, we have action shots. Actually, we just have one...
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