Jill and Gerard's Seachange

House renovation update!

Pat the painter has started on the outside of the house. We already had some paint for the walls and he went and bought another 20 gallons of the stuff. Turns out the colour we had mixed was darker than the colour he had, so the first coat was done with ours and the second coat with his for that little bit lighter look. A lot of the old paint had to be scraped off first and made such a mess even though he had drop sheets down!

By the time he started painting some of the timber areas the blue colour, I was not home at the time. so when I got home that afternoon I got a shock cause the blue is brighter, than the paint I have been using on the back of the house and so I was not so happy. O.K. should I be so picky seeing it was only a shade different? Well yes I think so, here I am painting out the back and getting used to the slightly duller blue than what he has used. Uncanny this time My mixed paint I liked better than what he had. I was even called ?DEAR"!!!!! that tells you how unpleased Pat was with me. I thought stuff this I have to say something. Well you would have thought I had asked him to cut off his arm or leg, it was such a big ordeal.. Ended up pouring my colour into his colour tin to hopefully come to a better colour!!! Not sure about this, he has so much paint it is not funny. Well he has done one coat of blue at the front of the house, so will wait and see if we get used to the colour. He won't be back now til after Christmas.

Mark the builder was here also and ended up pulling up the floor boards at the front entrance and replaced rotten wood underneath and also at one corner of the house. It has made such a difference. It is amazing how different the house now looks. After Christmas he will be making a shelter over the laundry door, sort of like a carport to protect the steps and door from the weather and also put the kennel out there too. Also will be putting up a fence from the end of the house to the fence to give us a bit of privacy from the front street with out washing line and to also keep the dogs in and an added bonus will be that Gerard will then feed the dogs out from the laundry door and not trapes their food bowls through the house!!! At long last. Also discussing the front entrance area so hopefully by the end of January maybe February it will all be finished.

posted by Jill @ 11:09 pm