Home improvement made easy??

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Sun May 28, 2006 3:11 pm

Let me just say this:

[shadow=darkred]OW!![/shadow]

Wagner Paint Gun (tm). Or whatever it's called. It truly is a nifty little doohickey with respect to the big hunks of wall. I'm really impressed. Sucks half a swimming pool's worth of paint up a tube and squeeshes it out a specially prepared roller cover. The paint is evenly distributed and you don't have to go back to the tray five gazillion times.

"Clean up is a breeze!"

Yeh... kind of like the breeze we had yesterday, coming out of the east where the few remaining feedlots in northern Colorado are. Eww. That same roller that holds a pile of paint... holds a pile of paint. In freaking perpetuity, I think.

Ok, so I exaggerate. What they don't tell you on the ads, of course, is that the full paint gun weighs a LOT and your arms get just as tired in a shorter period of time as a lighter roller with lots more rolling makes them.

So for the first time in many a year I have participated in the Great National Memorial Day HOme Improvement Tradition. Painted 3/4 of the upstairs hallway, which is now WHITE, instead of icky bandaid beige. ("The white wall. It says classic. It says clean. it says... we can't pick the right color.") Why only 3/4? the fourth wall gets us into Stairwell Land and I'm not quite ready for that this weekend.

Because I feel like this:

(The brown guy in the middle).

Why am I sharing this with you? I just thought it exceptionally funny that even on a weekend when I wasn't buying cels, I was STILL playing with paint!! :hitting:

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ok, so nobody else thought that was funny.

tex-chan · Post by **tex-chan** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:11 pm

I thought it was funny!

Congrats on accomplishing such a huge task. (At least, it sounds like a huge task to me! Heck, just the cleaning up part sounds like way too much effort to be good for 'ya!)

Now, all you have to do is start doodling images of your favorite anime characters onto those nice, white walls -- and you'll be all set!

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:20 pm

oooo!! Tex! great idea!!

Of course the other drawback is one that will sound familiar to Shellie, in particular -- and Perv-chan, who also has that Cat-Yack Beige carpet.

Walls = clean, white, and purdy.

Carpet = beige/gray/orange... and REALLY dirty.

Been too lazy to get the laminate, yet. Sheesh.

tex-chan · Post by **tex-chan** » Sun May 28, 2006 5:50 pm

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Yep! I have that particular "shade" of beige carpet, too ... although I call it

"CatYackDogBarfKiddoSpill Beige"

Hmmm ... I wonder if we could market this as an "official" color?

(I have yellow walls throughout most of the house, though, so that might offset the yakbarf beige carpet. *laughs* The downstairs room, hallways, stairwells, dining room, formal living room -- all yellow. For some reason, when I looked at the house just before moving in, it screamed YELLOW! at me.

So, I went with that gut impulse, even though yellow is far, far down on my "list of favorite colors" ><. I haven't regretted it, though. Kitchen & master bedroom are blue. Kiddo's room is mint green (with a dragon "princess" and stars painted on it). Office is sorta "pink" ... upstairs "extra" bathroom is really pink.

My hubby teased me when the painting was done, just before we moved in. He says we have a sherbet-colored house. LOL)

Our carpets were already wrecked when we moved into our house. We are just deciding how long we're going to stay here -- as in, will we be in this house long enough to justify the cost of redoing the floors. Given my allergies, though, I really really want to do the wood/laminate, especially in the bedrooms. We already put it in on the second floor, and I just love it. Of course, there was a lot less furniture to move on that floor, which made installation a lot easier ... *nervous laugh*

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:25 pm

heh heh
And all I did this weekend (nope, not a long one for me) was the week before's laundry, the dishes, and some rescanning of Ranma cels.

But I had so much fun seeing the results of the rescanning, that it was allll worth it.

And far less lifting than a full paint roller!!!

Oh, and our catYak carpet is also Beer stain brown.

My husband was into brewing a couple years ago, and he is truely a Water Sign, although he's really a Gemini.

He'd take over the entire downstairs for the weekend whenever he wanted to brew a batch, and I would head for the beach.

There are worse things in life.

blueheaven · Post by **blueheaven** » Sun May 28, 2006 6:47 pm

Yup, I know what you mean. I've been doing some Apartment Improvements over the last week, and it will continue through this Summer. I've got to fix some spots in the walls, hang some pictures, replace some pipes, clean the garage, and furnish the guest room. I feel your pain, but it sounds like you have gotten a lot done. Congrats on your non-icky paint job.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:50 am

This is great!! Maybe I should start a poll

Name that color!!

Sherbert House. Sounds yummy!!!

Yep, the laminate is long, long overdue. The reason I mentioned Shellie in particular is that we had a long talk about it well over a year ago now, and she wanted to know (much later) how it went. Um... it went the way of most clever ideas at our house that involve physical effort.

Then we had the Great Brazilnut Caper earlier this spring (EJ's life-threatening allergy) that looked as though it might possibly involve some degree of "get rid of the damned carpet NOW!" But since it turned out to be just nuts, the carpet is still there.

But if I step on a protruding carpet tack at the back doorway ONE more time, I may rip the stuff up myself. Laminate or no.

Now all I have to do is: replace the screen door to the garage (holey screens don't keep moths out very well); replace the storm door in the front, since the screens are falling out of it and it's butt-ugly; replace the screen door to the patio since it's falling out (do you see a theme here?

); replace the downstairs toilet that got scoured by an idiot trying to install a sump pump by pouring sand-filled water down it; replace the kitchen sink that has a nice big chink out of the enamel thanks to an idiot dropping a very hard object into it (and no, I wasn't the idiot in question); refinish the kitchen cabinets...

*rubs hands together eagerly*

*winces in pain*

*goes back to the anime*

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kittens · Post by **kittens** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:59 am

I feel so bad for you (yeah kinda funnt but... ) that you had to go thru that much work for cleaning...... But great work and congrats!!!

My hubby and I tried to clean on the last weekend and it was not easy....

Also before mving to Kentucky, we have to clean deeply..... which does not sound fun