I started painting the kitchen/dining room today. The main reason I am painting is that Harry is threatening to come over soon and finish the trimwork for the new slider. The Wonderful Spouse patched some holes that were around the door, and the new door was wider than the previous door so new sheetrock was added on one side. Thus, around the doorway needed re-painting. And since the kitchen hasn't been painted in 10 years or so (making color-matching impossible), the whole kitchen is getting a coat or two.
I have this horrible, sinking feeling that this means most of the upstairs will have to be re-painted. Although the kitchen/dining room is "broken" from the rest of the house by wood trimwork, you can see the color difference very clearly from the living room. If I end up re-painting other parts of the house, it will be the living room, hallway and stairway. The tough part about re-painting is that I have 70-80 collector's plates (wolves and horses) hung in the living room and hallway. These will all have to come down and stacked very carefully. Then of course there are pictures, clocks and shelves that will also need to come off the walls.
It will be an awfull lot of work, as well as time consuming! It is the fact that I really am not good at painting. Cut-in work is not my specialty (in fact I have a hard time just wielding a roller). Then there is the mess factor. I can't seem to paint without getting it all over everything - even if I cover it. Should be interesting how it turns out.
In other news, I am going in to my previous place of employment today to discuss performing some contract work for them. It will probably be about a week or two worth of work. We'll see if we can come to some type of agreement (in all honesty, I may not be able to do some of it so they may have AR do it instead). Regardless of what comes about, I should have a day's worth of work doing the drawings that are needed for templates to make the product anyway.
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