Seven years ago I picked up a filing cabinet from Craigslist. It was the perfect size at two drawers that both smoothly operated and, unlike most of them it didn’t have rust creeping up the sides or golf-ball sized pocks. The only problem was that it was the drab gray powder coat…
Category: painting
We bought the place in August, 2010, moved in sometime in November and had been using the three-season porch as a pit to chuck all those weird whatcha-ma-call-its, we-might-need-thats and about $35 in empty beer bottles since day numero-uno. Yeppers… as you can imagine it was pretty dingy out there. …
So Valspar is the name of type of paint we got. In case you were wondering. We managed to get to that last room painted the following day, and scurried about to finish it while we still had daylight. Its red. Once I finish mitering the trim and we paint…
For a long ass time this whole project has been goddamned disheartening. Every project turns into three more, and invariably involved more demolish work. Our schedules don’t facilitate the remodeling very well, and we’ve been living about forty minutes away for the time being. Both of us stressed from the…