Right now my hubby and I are up to our proverbial ears in home improvement tasks. We do not know which projects should take precedence which suggests that we’ve started a lot of projects. We have started a lot of projects. We’ve finished virtually none. We knew that we were planning to have a great deal of home improvement projects when we first viewed the home. It is quite small and the prior two owners did not care for charming little house.
When we first moved in, I felt like I was at camp. I believed that we were in over our heads, but with a few ideas we came across on the many home improvement shows on television, we soon found ourselves quite comfortable. Being comfortable is not always a great thing. We were constantly working on the home during the first three months, but things have begun to taper off during the wintertime months. I am flabbergasted by all the projects we did finish.
We’d to paint the house. This was the first major home improvement project on our task. The house was a corpse-blue hue and it was literally crawling off of the wooden structure. Fortunately, we entered our new home in August, so the weather was fine for painting. The major obstacle to the home made project was that the house was originally painted with an oil-based paint. Then it was painted with vinyl paint, and again with another oil-based paint.
The home improvement experts at our local hardware stockist suggested that we either have a specialist blast the horrifically deteriorating paint off of the home or we scrape the peeling paint off and use an oil-based paint to cover it. We chose the latter for our painting feat. I was just glad that we chose a small home. We scraped and painted around our work schedules and our baby’s schedule. In some manner, we completed the job.
I am a little disappointed in our first home improvement task. We did manage to scrape the old, flaking paint off of the home. We counted five colors ranging from the corpse-blue to fluorescent green to bright red on the flakes of paint. This was an extremely painstaking task that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Once we finished that, we discovered the actual painting to be quite pleasant. Oil-based paint is very simple to work with.
Oil-based paint is demanding to find. Here is where my let-down lies: we had an extremely limited amount of color choices because no one really uses oil-based paint any longer. We originally had a peeling, corpse-blue house. Now we have a neat, clean corpse-gray house. I wanted a pale yellow house. The next home improvement project will have nothing to do with painting the exterior of the house, but one day we’ll delve into siding in shades of yellow for our charming little home.
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