As fun as watching paint dry...
Today was one of those days where you never know when it's going to end. I had no idea that finishing the trim would take all day. Now I see why it took the painters so long to finish the trim at OUR house. Tedious. Oh well. Done done done. Well not really. I still have the railing to paint, which I need to buy a small artists paintbrush to do I think, otherwise I'm going to have paint drips all over the place. And I didn't paint the puttied nail holes yet. Frankly, I couldn't even see them. But maybe that was just the fumes gettin to me :) Either way, I'll do those with the small brush I buy for the railing.
Not a lot of pictures because pictures of painted trim are about as exciting as ... watching paint dry.
So here's a possible dilemma. The paintshop matched the paint of the old trim really poorly. So we ended up with much brighter, whiter paint. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing since we had been wanting to do that anyway. The problem is that the doors are still the old color. So now they look kinda yellowish next to the new trim. I'm not sure if having the doors a different color than the trim is necessarily a bad thing though. You can see below, the difference. It's pretty slight. (Though it's more different in real life than those pictures below show.) So the plan is to give the doors a good scrubbing with Windex to get all the dust and dirt off of them, and then see if it's going to be acceptable. I'm voting that it'll be fine. If, for some reason, it looks odd... I'll just remove the knobs and hinges, and hire my painters to come spray them because a) they were sprayed originally, so there are no brush strokes on them, and b) I don't wanna brush them. If I got all the hardware off of them, it wouldn't take the painters maybe 30 minutes to spray them all. Anyway, hopefully we don't need to do that, but we shall see.
Tomorrow the carpet gets installed!!! Woo hoo. That's pretty much it for the condo. I need to install the new faucets there, which I may do while the carpet guys are installing the carpet.
Despite today feeling long, I actually got home before midnight which was a real treat! My hand hurts from painting. I'm going to take a bath and relaaaaax.
G'night.
See the difference in color?
The daunting railing.
And again, color difference.
Read the rest of this post - CLICK here!
Not a lot of pictures because pictures of painted trim are about as exciting as ... watching paint dry.
So here's a possible dilemma. The paintshop matched the paint of the old trim really poorly. So we ended up with much brighter, whiter paint. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing since we had been wanting to do that anyway. The problem is that the doors are still the old color. So now they look kinda yellowish next to the new trim. I'm not sure if having the doors a different color than the trim is necessarily a bad thing though. You can see below, the difference. It's pretty slight. (Though it's more different in real life than those pictures below show.) So the plan is to give the doors a good scrubbing with Windex to get all the dust and dirt off of them, and then see if it's going to be acceptable. I'm voting that it'll be fine. If, for some reason, it looks odd... I'll just remove the knobs and hinges, and hire my painters to come spray them because a) they were sprayed originally, so there are no brush strokes on them, and b) I don't wanna brush them. If I got all the hardware off of them, it wouldn't take the painters maybe 30 minutes to spray them all. Anyway, hopefully we don't need to do that, but we shall see.
Tomorrow the carpet gets installed!!! Woo hoo. That's pretty much it for the condo. I need to install the new faucets there, which I may do while the carpet guys are installing the carpet.
Despite today feeling long, I actually got home before midnight which was a real treat! My hand hurts from painting. I'm going to take a bath and relaaaaax.
G'night.
See the difference in color?
The daunting railing.
And again, color difference.
Read the rest of this post - CLICK here!
2 Comments:
I miss you in the farm, but, I'm glad to see that you are keeping yourself busy! And you thought you'd be bored....
We are almost done with the basement, it took us two days just to set up the stereo, I'll send pictures!
I say don't worry about the doors, I can't tell any difference at all - even if they are different I doubt anyone will notice that until it's too late (for them.. hehe)
-mal
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