Can I Leave the Room Half-Painted?
Here is my fantasy .....
(image via Cote de Texas -Ginger Barber)
HERE is my reality.....
I started painting my kelly green living room two weekends ago. (I am finally sick of the green after ten long years.) I spent an entire Saturday afternoon priming and painting ONE-HALF of the room (my husband was on a Boyscout trip - I can only get home projects done when he is out of town). And yes, I said one-half of the room.
Why only one-half?
Well - primarily because this corner is my hang-up......
This corner at the ceiling is 11'6" above the floor. And the large ladder started slipping while I was painting - and the extended rod paint thingy can't make a clean edge - and the other ladder is too short. Sooo.... I am at the mercy of my husband .....or I can have a kid hold the ladder. I've decided on the kid option - which is my plan for tonight.
Did you notice we do not have trim molding in our 160-year-old house? Very few of the antebellum homes in our historic district have trim molding - apparently that was a "luxury" that was not affordable in rural Georgia before the Civil War. We thought about adding it - but prefer to maintain the historical integrity of the home.
Once the corner is painted - I can shift the humongous computer desk which includes a maze of 304,064 cords connected to it which may never be reattached in the right order if I attempt to move the desk. Which means I will never be able to surf the internet, again, nor will my daughter be able to take her online HS course, nor will the kids be able to update their facebook statuses (horror upon horrors), nor will we be able to submit any college applications, etc. But that is the risk I am willing to take to finish this room by Thanksgiving.
Here is the good news! I am quite pleased with my subtle gray!
Here is the good news! I am quite pleased with my subtle gray!
It is Wickham Gray by Benjamin Moore.
I worried it was too pale, at first - but now I LOVE it!
So HERE is where I am ....
No progress since the Boyscout trip 9 days ago.
Cross your fingers and hope that I can get the computer up and running again, before Christmas.
Linking up to Metamorphosis Monday - with my butterfly half alive! and Power of Paint party!.
Linking up to Metamorphosis Monday - with my butterfly half alive! and Power of Paint party!.
Comments
can't wait to see the room finished.
Keep painting!
Janet xox
Once when he was away I tackled the stairwell! It was very very scary. I had to bring in my outside extention ladder and bridge it between one of the stairs and a wall that hangs above the air of the stairwell. When my hubby found out how I had done it, he exclaimed, never again! I don't plan on repainting that area ever.......well....at least I hope so!
Kat :)
hugs
Sissie
hugs,
Lesliem
XO
Kristin
It took me 18 days to paint over my daughter's bright apple green room!
So, I know how you feel!
What's my excuse?
Our A/C was out on the third floor (where her room is) and I only pained early or late day.
Can't wait to see yours finished!
Hugs,
~me
;)
When I was working up high in our rooms, my best purchase ever was a set of rolling scaffolding. If I remember correctly, it was only about $150 and it provides a safe surface from which to work. I hate ladders, and I avoid working on them whenever possible, and this scaffolding was a total life-saver for me.