Lessons learned...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 09:52AM Well. As of about 1:30 in the wee hours of this morning, the painting part is done. ;) Still working on shelving and electrical and cleaning carpets and will then start moving stuff back into the appropriate bedrooms. Whew. ) In the meantime, here are some of my thoughts...
1. Bright yellow walls are difficult to paint over (hence, Micah's room was the most difficult of the three).
2. While I admit that doors go well near the edges of rooms, it would be lovely if the trim around the doors would go right up to the edge of the wall. Painting the inch or so between the trim and the corner is not easy.
3. Trim is annoying. Painting around and up to trim sucks.
4. Removing closet doors to make the room bigger is a good idea. But. It means that you have to paint the closet, too. Which kinda isn't fun...especially when said closets already have shelves in them (hence, again, Micah's room was the most difficult of the three, lol).
5. Shuffling a gajillion legos from room to room takes awhile.
6. A certain youngest son can be quite the task master when it comes to his new room. ;) (And, obviously, the fact that his room is turning out to be the most complicated isn't helping matters, lol.)
7. The guy who lived here before us liked to experiment with home projects and wasn't a stickler for quality or consistency. It's made for many a delay and has us mentally drafting a letter to include for the new owners when we someday sell the house...informing them that it was *not* us, lol.
8. Remind me, please, not to start any projects of this size when things like Olympic trials or Olympics are in progress. Watching those greatly cuts into the available time to work on the projects, lol. (So, I guess we'd better hurry up and finish these bedrooms before the Olympics start...which will hopefully go faster now that most of the trials are over.)
Okay, off to clean up the paint stuff so we can get back to the electrical stuff when Nathan gets home tonight. Fun times. ;)
Reader Comments (1)
I hate painting- I'm working on repainting Jude's room and I second everything you say about painting :)
I'm excited to see the before's and after's of everything you guys have been working on!