Holy Cow!!! Looks like I could start up a painting business!! One of my CabinGirls does a lot of side jobs...I'll send her to all the cold places...but...
JOHN...I think I better come do the painting at your place...wink..wink.
I hate to prepare to paint. I am sloppy; I paint a lot of me. I am impatient. But I do alright, I guess. If you leave the lights off when i'm done it looks pretty good.
Laurie, I feel ya about the arm pain.(Ha... AND not affording stuff!!) I have tennis elbow and it's not a pleasant job.
Swindy, totally agree about going nuts with wallpaper for a while. It's paint for me now, too. Except my bathroom...I am putting a textured paper to hide panel joints and then I will paint...probably a very slight tinge of lavendar. I think lavendar. Yunno..it's hard to even find wallpaper anymore. Several stores told me everything is special order now since it is just not as popular.
I already painted the room AJ moved out of. It was steel gray and was real fun to cover. It is now a warm tan. Maroon, tan and sage green accents. Waiting on Peggy to sleep in there.
The room I just stripped got painted semi-gloss white...I intend to accent in black as this will be my office. I have one wall I want to paint a sort of grid on...we'll see how that goes. And a fluorescent light fixture. I want it "cold" and bright in there. To keep me awake.
I have the paper stripped off my back hall but it needs some spackle, etc. Then I will paint it a very light blue, almost white. Need to brighten it up.
My living room is one of my favorite...first painted flat tan and then "striped" with 5" stripes of the same color in semi-gloss. Looks really nice. A lot of work with all the taping of the stripes.
NATALIE....come see us.
Expecting a snowstorm tonight. Whoopee. Somebody get me a snowmobile.