After work each day this week, I’ve been heading over to the new house to prep it for move-in day (Nov. 17- ha ha ha, right!). The prep has consisted of painting the master bedroom and living room as well as some unskilled carpentry. Usually I have the ole MP3, and grove out. Yesterday I forgot the MP3 so with 5 hours of painting after 9 hours of work, I was a little loopy. I thought I would share some thoughts from last night with you:
- The inventor of the paint roller (Norman Breakey of Toronto in 1940) was a freakin’ genius.
- Who ever named the 5-in-1 was a dipsh*t. That thing has several hundred uses, not just five.
- I would like to torture, then shoot the person who came up with popcorn ceilings.
- Bejamin Moore makes about 10,000 different paints. I think you need some sort of spectrometer to tell them apart. They create “new” colors every year, but if they just took old colors and renamed them, who the hell would know?
- There is no such paint color as “white”, their is “super white”, “dove white”, “bone white”, “bright white” and 100 more…
- Painting sucks.
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I strongly agree with #3 provided it is extended to all textured wall or ceiling treatments. I’ve sanded down walls with that kind of shit on them because I couldn’t bring myself to demo the walls and have them sheetrocked. What the hell is wrong with people? Jeebus!
However, although I don’t really like it, painting is my least loathed home maintenance activity, so I can’t totally get on board the # 6 bus.
7. Paint fumes! Wheeee…