That's what Newly Graduated Sis is about to begin at left. Yep, we painted the garage.It took nine hours, three snack breaks, two paint rollers, one very useful ladder, three cans of self-priming paint, and some super-energizing music. By the time we were done, we were splattered and spent, but the results were well worth it.
NG Sis had insisted before her arrival that she wanted to help us with some kind of home improvement project, and painting was high on our wish list in several of the rooms as it would then allow us to put up much-needed shelving. Since neither of us had ever painted before, the garage seemed like the safest place to learn as we went. We pulled the cars out and parked them on the street, taped up the wall plates on all the electrical outlets, moved all the random stuff in storage to the center of the floor and then got to work with the rollers. Here's the obligatory before shot:
It was pretty quick work until we had to start using the ladder -- only one person can be on it at a time. But that gave us breaks to work the kinks out of our arms and shoulders, which was necessary by the time we got to that point. The garage is 12' by 12' by 13', so it's not a small space by any means.
The project wouldn't have gotten done so soon had NG Sis not come out a few days ahead of Troubadour Mom and Dad (they were less inclined to join in the DIY fun). D was away at a conference as well, so he and I would have had to put off the job until at least today. Instead, we're now ready for the next step: mounting shelves and -- more importantly -- moving as much as we can from the house into storage here. It will be so nice to have closet space again!
Here's the after shot -- wish I'd had a fish-eye lens to get a picture of the entire room. In any case, it may not look like much, but we're very proud of it.
2 comments:
What a lovely sis you have to want to come and actually get stuck in with something like this. You've done very well and should be proud. I am such a messy painter - I get as much over me as the floor and do not really have even brush strokes. I don't even mess it deliberately so that I don't have to get involved - I *want* to be involved but get banished to make tea instead.
Glad you are getting the nest all sorted out
Newly Graduated Sis is AMAZING. She loves transforming spaces, so this was actually something she begged us to let her do. She was the one who instructed me on the whole painter's tape thing -- a very good teacher, she is.
I had paint in my eyebrows when we were done with the whole project. It was hilarious.
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