More or less each summer in St. Matthews Stephanie and I have painted one bedroom. This summer - with summer school compacted into two weeks and Stephanie planning to participate in no mission trip to Guatemala or summer school teaching in Macomb, Stephanie had planned for us to take on the biggest room(s): the hallway and the living room and dining room. However, both of our mothers required hospitalization. But Stephanie picked out a light/gray green and sanded and painted our little hallway (pictured above top), between the big room, computer room/extra bedroom, our bedroom, downstairs bathroom, and stairs (painting the ceiling first). Then, after coming back from visiting her parents Monday, Stephanie - apparently headed to Tallahassee two weeks thereafter - moved all of the dining room furniture and took on the dining room (with little help from me). She hoped to finish before Vincent returned from Denmark Saturday night.
Most of the downstairs room have ugly 1970s border, and one of the three dining room walls has border/wallpaper all the way to the floor. Stephanie quickly discovered as she peeled this away that underneath was another layer of wallpaper, this one painted over. So it's taken her an entire week to get 2/3 of that wall of wallpaper off. At this point Stephanie hopes to just get all of the wallpaper off the one wall before this weekend, when she will drive a rental car to Tallahassee (while Vincent heads down in a van to church camp in North Carolina). Stephanie has done almost all of this with no help from Vincent and me - just Frisco and the TV helping keep her company. The scraping and sponging the wallpaper off has caused her various aches and pains, particularly when she's on the chair reaching up.
The sanding of the hallway walls has sent lots of dust through the house, and taking the wallpaper off has sent little pieces of wallpaper and dust everywhere. I didn't help matters today by vacuuming without the filter in. I did dust and vacuum frantically to clean some of it up and to clean up the house for Vincent's arrival Saturday (me having returned late Thursday night). But now there is dust everywhere again.
Stephanie picked relatively unusual, bright colors for the two bedroom walls: green and yellow. This is a more subdued green. In the bedrooms, set-up and clean-up - and especially preparing and painting the white trim - has taken as long as painting the ceiling and walls - along with sanding and patching rough spots. We've gotten better at this - although Stephanie is increasingly doing most of the learning and work (when I'm not away or at work or cleaning, I've been downloading pictures/blogging or working on my American Sociological Association paper) - but she's still not great at forecasting how long it will take. Nevertheless, good work so far, Stephanie!
Most of the downstairs room have ugly 1970s border, and one of the three dining room walls has border/wallpaper all the way to the floor. Stephanie quickly discovered as she peeled this away that underneath was another layer of wallpaper, this one painted over. So it's taken her an entire week to get 2/3 of that wall of wallpaper off. At this point Stephanie hopes to just get all of the wallpaper off the one wall before this weekend, when she will drive a rental car to Tallahassee (while Vincent heads down in a van to church camp in North Carolina). Stephanie has done almost all of this with no help from Vincent and me - just Frisco and the TV helping keep her company. The scraping and sponging the wallpaper off has caused her various aches and pains, particularly when she's on the chair reaching up.
The sanding of the hallway walls has sent lots of dust through the house, and taking the wallpaper off has sent little pieces of wallpaper and dust everywhere. I didn't help matters today by vacuuming without the filter in. I did dust and vacuum frantically to clean some of it up and to clean up the house for Vincent's arrival Saturday (me having returned late Thursday night). But now there is dust everywhere again.
Stephanie picked relatively unusual, bright colors for the two bedroom walls: green and yellow. This is a more subdued green. In the bedrooms, set-up and clean-up - and especially preparing and painting the white trim - has taken as long as painting the ceiling and walls - along with sanding and patching rough spots. We've gotten better at this - although Stephanie is increasingly doing most of the learning and work (when I'm not away or at work or cleaning, I've been downloading pictures/blogging or working on my American Sociological Association paper) - but she's still not great at forecasting how long it will take. Nevertheless, good work so far, Stephanie!
1 comment:
When you get done with your painting, you can come help me!!
Doing the job right the first time gives a person great satisfaction. Keep up the good work Steph.
Mom
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