my parents came up to the city to help with the house this weekend.
they helped with the laborious task of paint prep, which made it possible for us to start painting this weekend. (right) here i am using a recycled dental tool to clean out the picture rail trim. it made me realize that i could never be a dental hygienist!
after i removed “plaque” and “tartar” with the dental pick, my mom followed with a good brushing with a nylon bristle brush that resembled a big toothbrush. my dad and mathew worked on plaster touch-up and scraping and sanding the baseboards.
after my parents went home mathew and i put on our respirator masks and mathew pulled back the carpet to finish stripping the baseboards of paint.
that night we primed the ceiling.
on sunday mathew stripped paint from the window sill and added more emitters to the drip irrigation system for the garden.
it’s been quite sunny and warm recently and the plants with drip emitters were doing so much better (left) than the ones without (right.) hopefully the garden will be looking more healthy in the days to come.
i spent the entire day priming the walls and in the afternoon i was able to start painting actual color! (right) here i’m painting one of the long walls but this is as far as i got because we suddenly decided to leave this wall white and only paint the end walls. we still need to paint the window and door frames, picture rail and base boards in this room. mathew put a final coat of white on the ceiling so at least that is done.
the color is called “montgomery white,” kind of a beigy, slightly peachy, cream color. this room gets a lot of light and we’re liking how subtle this color is, but it makes the yellow in the dining area seem fluorescent in comparison! we may add a lighter yellow above the chair rails in the dining area to tone it down.