Sunday, July 18, 2010

Adventures in House Painting

The man lift was completed and works like a charm...it spins and even he even built a power box on it to plug things in....i told him it was missing a cup holder. This weekend has consisted mostly of prepping...which is by far the worst part of painting.

We completed the power washing, moved onto scraping, re-caulking, and sanding.
Maddy and Brian enjoying a ride on the hoe.
It's even handy for those hard to get to light bulbs!
I did accomplish 1 thing and that was getting the cat condo painted. Here is the color we chose, its called bean pot, I have a thing for brown....Its my go to color. This just needs some touch up and trim work and it's done!
The biggest thing Brian got accomplished was this wall! The south side of the house gets hammered with sun, therefore it was the worst and needed the most prepping. He finished it today and I got it all primed!

Slowly but surely we will get this daunting task completed, it might take another 2 weeks atleast....I actually contemplated falling off the ladder today in order to get out of it...

7 comments:

Stephanie V said...

He, he...by far my favorite part of this post was the last sentence... :) :) nice color choice...can't wait to see the whole project completed!

The Johnsons said...

Don't just fall off the ladder, Staci - DIVE!

Emily Bartsch said...

Those darn Ladders!!!!

JoMama said...

Hey! Brian in shorts. Must have taken Aunty Lori's advice and decided his chicken legs could use some Vitamin D, eh? You hate painting, but you'll be SO VERY happy when it's completed and your house looks so very fabulous.

Brian is rad handy. I can't believe what the man can weld up. Good job Mr Faw!

Lori O. said...

Painting it reminds me or needle point that is when i use to do needle point. Hate the process love the end result. I want a ride in eagle nest. How fast does the backhoe go? Yee haw !! Oh yes nice legs Mr. Faw

Andrea Elliott said...

whew! That was and is going to be a lot of work!

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