I’ve been doing quite a bit of painting – one of our spare rooms (if you have two spare rooms, what do you call them? This one is still also a sewing room though). It did have yellow walls, a green carpet, and blue woodwork. A representative sample of the taste of our house’s previous owners – but it wasn’t actually falling off the walls so we didn’t do it immediately. Now we have had the window, that used to have a gap an inch wide round it, replaced. With a wooden frame, not a horrid uPVC frame, I’m happy to say.
So the frame needed painting, and hence so did the rest of the woodwork, so I have done half the walls and woodwork (the hard bit of the woodwork, last weekend, the window and door frame) and then moved all the furniture and sewing stuff to the other half of the room and I’ve now done one coat of the walls on the second half. This half has the more difficult walls as there are plain wooden shelves all over one wall and I don’t want to paint them green. And the walls need an awful lot of coats (3 in places) for a fairly medium yellow being covered with a fairly medium green.
So I have a nasty feeling that the room will be left 3/4 painted when we go away for our holiday (London, Brighton and Rye for a week) on Monday. But having had my first week back at work after 4 weeks off sick, I haven’t got the energy to paint late into the night. Watching Doctor Who was much more appealing.
Speaking of which – Wow!