Confessions of a Serial Painter

I've been doing a lot of painting lately so I thought I’d pass along some tips I've learned in the process of painting.  Lots and lots of painting.

My current color combo love is grays with bright white trim.  It was previously grayish green with bright white trim.  I've never really been all that into bright colors - I did have a red wall once, but it got old pretty fast.

See - very pretty but no, not my house

How to choose colors: go to a paint store, or Lowes or Home Depot, pick up a massive amount of samples, look online at what's popular, mix it all together with what you like, the style of home you live in, your furniture, put together a palette and wah lah! You've picked your paint colors!

Let me just say, every time someone asks me what I’m doing and I say “painting!” I get the same thing, “UGH, I HATE painting!!”  No one ever likes painting.  Why is that? I like painting.  So then I have to ask myself, do people truly HATE painting or are they not using the right tools which makes painting a much bigger chore than it should be?  Because really, painting is one of the fastest, easiest, least costly ways to update a room or to give it a whole new feel or even just make it look new again.

All in a Day

These are not mine, although that is an impressive collection.  They actually come from here.

On any given workday around 1:45 p.m. my manager makes the rounds down to our cubes to check and see if we need to make a last minute run to the cafeteria before they close at 2.  This “last call” is what generally prompts the very unnecessary purchase of some kind of king size candy bar or some other such thing that I definitely don't need.  Today, I got water.  Not only am I trying to undo a little damage brought on by one too many sandwiches (and candy bars apparently), but, water is good for you.  Me.  I mean everyone.

Standing up, my manager makes a comment about my being very tall today.  As he looks at my shoes in one of those “how does she walk in those things” looks, I say something about a summer in flip flops making my feet wussies and it’s not that the shoes are hard to walk in, my feet just don’t like anything touching the tops of them because they’ve gotten used to flip flops.

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Meet my childhood friend Jesse over at Buckhouse!  She's brilliant, witty, charming, beautiful and exceedingly talented. Who would have ever known at the ripe old age of 14 (her) & 16 (me) that we'd both be bitten by the reno bug and take on projects of massive scale and actually conquer them.

There's just something about getting your hands dirty and creating something amazing that you never knew you could that gives you an overwhelming sense of accomplishment.  It kind of makes you feel like you could take on the world.

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