A long day of painting.
I may have found my medium. Not oils, acrylics, or watercolors. I prefer a much bigger canvas, so I’m dabbling in Valspar(tm) acrylic interior flat.
The Long-Suffering Wife and I have finally gotten all of the wallpaper, glue, and crap off of the walls, then patched and repaired a large hole. (It’s a 60’s home in the San Fernando Valley — of course there was an intercom that hasn’t worked in at least twenty-five years.)
I learned how to strip wallpaper, paint, and do basic household repairs like that when I was a teenager. We moved around a bit as my Dad would get transferred from here to there. It always seemed we were fixing up or remodeling something. So, while I’m no expert, it’s not rocket science and I can do stuff like that. I just don’t much like to.
This was a project for The Long-Suffering Wife and me to do together. We’ve worked together pretty well, which was not necessarily a given. (Think Tom Hanks & Shelley Long in “The Money Pit.”)
What I found fascinating was how the make your paint in-store at Lowe’s these days. (I’m sure they do it everyplace else that they sell paint as well.) We had picked color samples, which they scanned into a computer. The computer told the guy which base to use, at which point a combination of pigments were added to the base by the computer. It all got stirred together and voila, it was paint in our exact shade.
Science, man!!
So the three difficult walls (the ones with doors, closets, and lots of fixtures) are all done with two coats. It really does make a huge and immediate difference.
Tomorrow we have the easy (no doors or breaks) wall to paint in our accent color (Leaping Lizard).
After that? Well, the carpet totally sucks. How hard is it install Pergo(tm) hardwood flooring by ourselves?
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