The Home and Garden Experts Online Can
Help You Get That Home Improvement Project Started
Right now my husband and I are up to
our proverbial ears in home and garden chores. We don’t know which
projects should take precedence which means that we have started a lot
of projects. We have started a lot of projects. We have finished almost
none. We knew that we were going to have a lot of home and garden
projects when we first looked at the home. It is quite small and the
previous two owners did not care for charming little house.
When we first moved in, I felt like I was at camp. I thought that we
were in over our heads, but with a few ideas we came across on the many
home and garden shows on television, we soon found ourselves quite
comfortable. Being comfortable is not always a good thing. We were
constantly working on the home during the first three months, but things
have begun to taper off during the winter months. I am amazed by all the
projects we did finish.
We had to paint the house. This was the first major home interior
project on our task. The house was a corpse-blue hue and it was
literally crawling off of the wooden structure. Fortunately, we moved
into our new home in August, so the weather was fine for painting. The
major obstacle to the do-it-yourself project was that the house was
originally painted with an oil-based paint. Then it was painted with
vinyl paint, and again with another oil-based paint.
The home and garden experts at our local hardware store suggested that
we either have a professional blast the horrifically deteriorating paint
off of the house or we scrape the peeling paint off and use an oil-based
paint to cover it. We chose the latter for our painting feat. I was just
glad that we chose a small home. We scraped and painted around our work
schedules and our baby’s schedule. Somehow, we completed the project.
I am a little disappointed in our first home improvement task. We did
manage to scrape the old, flaking paint off of the home. We counted five
colors ranging from the corpse-blue to fluorescent green to bright red
on the flakes of paint. This was an extremely painstaking task that I
would not wish on my worst enemy. Once we finished that, we found the
actual painting to be quite pleasant. Oil-based paint is very easy to
work with.
Oil-based paint is not easy to find. Here is where my disappointment
lies: we had an extremely limited number of color choices because no one
really uses oil-based paint anymore. We originally had a peeling,
corpse-blue house. Now we have a neat, clean corpse-gray house. I wanted
a pale yellow house. The next home and garden project will have nothing
to do with painting the exterior of the house, but one day we will look
into siding in shades of yellow for our charming little home.
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