More home improvements
Ok, we have finally started painting. Well, that would be Gary pretty much forcing me to start painting. And I'm glad he did. Our house really needs it.
So, Gary is working on the trim and I get the roller to do the big main stuff. Giliane & I picked out some really good colors that work great with our house. The trim is a medium gray, called "pewter cup". The main color is "moon mist". It's a nice, white color with just a touch of gray in it.
So, let me tell you a little story about what Not To Do on a rainy day. On Saturday, we decided to do some painting, so Giliane was working on the trim and I was working on the front of the garage. I then decide to take the house perimeter lights down 'cause we have our nice, new replacements. So as I was pulling them down, I wasn't being too careful with them and therefore broke a few as I tossed 'em in the garbage.
We then painted those areas and after it dried, we pulled out our new lights. But guess what? The blasted things don't fit. We have a stucco "groove" that is in the way of the lights. The lights are too big. Ok, so now I can't put the old ones back, and I have bare wire showing.
Now, it rained really good the day before, with a decent chance of raining the day we were painting, but nothing had shown up. However, the rain clouds were on the way. We threw everything in the car and hauled ass over to Home Depot to get replacements for our replacements. It started raining long before we made it to the store. Luckily our house is in the southern part of town, so we had a little while before the storm got there.
We made it home just as it started raining. So, standing in water, handling bare wires that will be wired in to our nice new lights, with it raining harder and harder, fingers starting to go numb, lightning flashing, thunder getting closer... All we wanted to do was do a little bit of painting!
Hey, needless to say, we got them wired and turned on. They look great! The only drawback now is that we need to get the rest of the house painted and swap out the other lights 'cause we look a little WT at the moment. :)
So, Gary is working on the trim and I get the roller to do the big main stuff. Giliane & I picked out some really good colors that work great with our house. The trim is a medium gray, called "pewter cup". The main color is "moon mist". It's a nice, white color with just a touch of gray in it.
So, let me tell you a little story about what Not To Do on a rainy day. On Saturday, we decided to do some painting, so Giliane was working on the trim and I was working on the front of the garage. I then decide to take the house perimeter lights down 'cause we have our nice, new replacements. So as I was pulling them down, I wasn't being too careful with them and therefore broke a few as I tossed 'em in the garbage.
We then painted those areas and after it dried, we pulled out our new lights. But guess what? The blasted things don't fit. We have a stucco "groove" that is in the way of the lights. The lights are too big. Ok, so now I can't put the old ones back, and I have bare wire showing.
Now, it rained really good the day before, with a decent chance of raining the day we were painting, but nothing had shown up. However, the rain clouds were on the way. We threw everything in the car and hauled ass over to Home Depot to get replacements for our replacements. It started raining long before we made it to the store. Luckily our house is in the southern part of town, so we had a little while before the storm got there.
We made it home just as it started raining. So, standing in water, handling bare wires that will be wired in to our nice new lights, with it raining harder and harder, fingers starting to go numb, lightning flashing, thunder getting closer... All we wanted to do was do a little bit of painting!
Hey, needless to say, we got them wired and turned on. They look great! The only drawback now is that we need to get the rest of the house painted and swap out the other lights 'cause we look a little WT at the moment. :)
posted by Jeff and Gilly | 7:49 PM
1 Comments:
LOL! Sounds like a real challenge to get those lights in during that rain storm! I really like the way the house is looking with the new paint! Great choices of colors!!! Keep up the good work. Good for Gary to get you going on the house painting job!
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