This week, my wife and I took time off to paint our dining room and bedroom. After painting our living room last year, we learned a few things when painting our house:
- Pick your paint carefully. We’re using Behr paint from home depot.
- Seriously, use primer. I bought our house in the end of 2002 and near as I can tell, the previous owner never did any painting since he purchased it in 1997. As a result, when we painted our living room without any primer, the paint bubbled up and I spent a lot of time fixing it. This time around, we are putting primer on every surface including the ceiling. Since we did that no crazy paint bubbles.
- Get canvas tarp for the floor. It absorbs spilled paint and prevents you from tracking it into the rest of the house. For the furniture, buy cheap plastic tarp and cover it all up from top to bottom.
- Use the basement sink for cleaning the brushes.
So far, after a day and a half or painting, we’ve painted most of our dining room.
BTW: Normally, I’d take pictures of what I’m doing for Flickr, but as paint and Nikon D80 does not mix, no WIP photos.
Music I’m listening to now:
“If I Never See Your Face Again“, by Maroon 5 with Rhianna from the “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long“ album. You can see the video here.
One of the things we were unhappy with our house is the basement windows. They were from the 70’s, drafty and leaked when water hit it. We finally got around to replacing them this weekend. It took all day, but are well worth it. They also repaired our gutters too.
Finally managed to take some time off from work. Don’t get me wrong, aside from the middle of the night wake up calls (like last night at 1:00am…) I actually like my job and the work that I do. I work on interesting projects, meet interesting people and help to solve a lot of technical problems. I get to 