Tuesday was a freakishly productive day. It started off with a call to my luthier in New York to cancel an appointment to put my spare bass on consignment which I had made just the day before. After he heard me playing it one last time on Monday night, Doug told me that I should really keep it and not think about selling it any more. I feel selfish keeping it because we need the money, but we have other things we can sell.So I didn't drive up to New York. The weather was completely fantastic so I decided to get started painting the porch ceiling panels, a project I was NOT looking forward to at all. I was planning to paint each panel one by one on the porch, which would have taken days, but the weather was so nice that it made sense to do it out in the back yard. And since there was so much more space out there, it made even more sense to paint all 12 of them at once! So I decided to go for it.
First I set up some stuff to elevate them out of the grass slightly, and then I carried them all out there using one of those magic plywood carrying handles. I'm really glad it wasn't windy. It wasn't too bad carrying them that way, but my hands did hurt the next day. They are fine now.
After I finished all of the backpriming and the paint was dry enough, I flipped them all over and began to realize that there really wasn't enough time to finish painting all 768 square feet of paneling by myself by the end of the day. So Doug graciously offered to postpone his annual car vacation by a day in order to help me finish. It doesn't start until Saturday anyway.
So we primed the beaded part and got the finish coat on in just enough time for it to be dry enough to carry back onto the porch. And Doug carried them all back in while I gathered up the rest of the stuff. He's definitely in my good graces right now. And he'll stay there if we can install them on the ceiling as soon as he gets back from his trip!
They are blue because it is traditional for porch ceilings on old houses to be blue (like the sky) and that is the look we are after.
3 comments:
How long before it's all done?
Looks very nice! You are working very fast! and help is always great :-)) btw i really like that blue color. What is it called?
Sassy = I think 2 months might be realistic. And that's about how much longer my patience will last!
Anna - Thanks! We have fast days and slow weeks. The color is actually a little less blue than it appears in the photos. It's a color we've also used inside so it'll look good peeking in the windows. It's a Home Depot color match of a Ralph Lauren color called Faded Seafoam. We had them match the color in Glidden Exterior Semigloss which is about 8 dollars cheaper per gallon.
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