Pain(t)

As promised here are some before and after shots (and a few others).

First things first - Mark helped us remember that it was the 4th of July. That's one big man with two small flags.

I was all ready to go so I thought that I'd get a head start and put some primer on a few things ahead of time.

I did learn eventually that the cement does not need primer - oops! And of course we can't forget to mention our home away from home. We spent so much time (and money) there it might as well be our second home.

Eventually, we did get off to a good start - tackling the project little by little.

Easy with that paint boys...

You make that look like we know what we're doing!

We were also visited by some strange glowing creatures that night. I found out these things are called "fire works" and all kinds of people came out in their front yard to light them off. I will have to do some more "research" with these items now that I live in an area where they aren't illegal!

We all had to do our part cleaning up and since we really only had one big sink, and the window by it had the blinds taken down for painting it was...well, a bit blinding. Everyone dealt with it in their own ways...

Everyone worked together to get things done which really shrunk the task down!

Pretty soon we were seeing some big changes!

Once we got the Dad combo on the rollers we were really moving along!


Painting baseboards was a big project and lent itself to some different kinds of painting methods. Don't worry no one was harmed in the painting of the boards! At least, not severely...or perhaps at least not permanently anyway.


I guess it did leave some marks though...

However, I think that the results made it all worth it. Thanks everyone for your help!

In the end, we had accomplished a lot (including painting the ceilings twice - sigh) but I think Mark tells us how we all really felt about it right then - tired!