...the kind of people who like to sand and patch and prime and tape and put down dropcloths and lovingly wash the brushes, and those who think painting is nothing more than opening the paint can and going to it.
If you are a type 2 painter and are married to a type 1, may I offer a piece of advice? Just indulge her. Don't surprise her by starting the project while she's out doing another errand and had counted on having the entire weekend to do laundry and scrapbooking. Let her plan the date, and buy the primer, and do the taping and the dropcloth and the priming, particularly if you are painting the foyer Derby Red. You'll save time -- no scrubbing Derby Red off the trim and carpet, no listening to her sighs and complaints and shrieks of frustration when she discovers that her second coat isn't adhering properly. You'll save money -- no buying of dinners and chocolate and other peace offerings and new paintbrushes because the old ones have turned into hardened paddles of latex.
Just a tip.
Ugh. Happy slappy painters are a menace to surfaces everywhere. My advice to them is to just back away from the paint brush. If they are professionals, they should go into penitential monastaries to contemplate the error of their ways. You would be surprised at how many licensed painting contractors are happy slappies at heart, and how often that shows in their allegedly professional work.
You do have an electric sander, no? It is one of the great joys of painting. I bought one when I was fixing water damage at my parents' house and had way too much surface area to hand sand. I love the thing.
Ha ha ha
I am a type A painter, who is luckily married to a type A painter, (Although we do not lovingly wash the paintbrushes... we do wash them though.)
I guess I`m "lucky" because my husband is totally hands-off (a nice word for "incompetent") when it comes to anything home-improvement related, so we hire people for whatever I can`t do myself. The downside of this is that I get no credit for whatever I do around the house -- he either doesn`t even notice, or he believes it`s all done by little elves or something...
L.,
Little Elves are unreliable. When they do show up, they drink all your booze, do a lousy job and charge too much.
But if you want your work to get noticed, paint it red. Seriously. Red is an underused color, and people notice it.
"Wow! That door is...well, red. And it's beautifully painted."
I painted my kitchen red.
I own a piece of red construction paper.
Peony:
Have you ever tried this stuff:
http://www.reddevil.com/productDetail.cfm?id=0541RT&c=pr&cat=47
It has streamlined many projects for me.
My kitchen/diningroom is also red. Actually, deep burgandy red, (almost the exact shade of the current background of your blog) the family room in the basement also has a lighter shade of burgandy. So far, we manage to have at least one red room, everywhere we live... I love colour... I would hate, hate, hate a white house...
After years of moving every one to two years due to the military it looks like we may stay put for a while. I am just dying to paint my kitchen burgandy, but my husand is balking. Years of living with neutral non-offensive shades so the next buyer or renter would not be turned off is hard to overcome. I'll post pictures if I ever get it done!
Very sound advice. (Sounds like you speak from a vast reservoir of experience :) )
Any chance we can see a swatch of Derby Red? I love red.
You have to scroll down to see it, but Derby Red can be found here. It's much nicer looking in real life. Either that or I need a better monitor.
Ooooh drooling over the derby red
We had colonial red in our previous house. The rosewood pink looks a lot like what we have in our basement
I love house-decorating.... sigh... If I only had more time and energy... sigh...