I haven’t really mentioned it here on the blog, and I’m not sure why. But, this spring/early summer found us having two big household projects.
And, no, we didn’t hit the lottery. Unfortunately, one of the big projects *had* to be done (new roofing), and so when we were able to get enough on a home equity line of credit to have a screened in porch built on the back of the house, we were pleased to go ahead with this project as well. (I know, I know — it was not good to go into debt for something that we didn’t really need. But, we had been really wanting an addition, and this ended up being a low cost way to add some space, especially since we are always envious of my parents screened in porch.)
In order to save some money on the cost of the porch (which was actually done for a very reasonable price by a contractor that we know from church), we agreed to do all of the painting ourselves.
Can I just tell you that how much work it is to paint a room that is almost entirely trim work?
This is probably why we tried to put it off as long as possible. We were actually asked to wait a month, since they used treated lumber. We were more than happy to do that, of course. But, when we started getting closer to six weeks, we knew it was time that we just needed to do it. (We figured that the neighbors were probably saying, “Isn’t it nice that they built on a porch? But, what a shame that they aren’t painting it. They’re so lazy!”)
Finally, over the course of about a week (four different painting sessions), we put on a layer of white primer, and then a layer of our slate gray/blue house color. (The contractor had actually needed to repaint some of our siding, and then bought too much paint. So, we were able to use what they had leftover.)
I forgot to take a before picture of the outside. So, here is what the inside still looks like, just to give you an idea of what the outside looked like for six weeks. (Yeah, we do actually have to go through the entire process again on the inside. Augh!)
And here it is, all primed and painted! Ahh…much better! Needless to say, some of our neighbors were sure to tell us how nice it looked with paint!
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