ace’s blog

I posted earlier today about creating a website to assist in my realtor’s selling of my house.  Well now I’m assisting in another way.  Meri and I are painting fools!  We have painted our second room in about 3 days and will tackle another room tomorrow, bringing the total to 3 rooms in 4 days!  Oh no, that’s not all kids!  We are going to paint the bottom of the living room and the bottom of the kitchen.  We are paying someone, a moon-lighting cop, to paint the top part of the living room.  Yes, the same living room that has 20′ ceilings.  This guy is only charging us $250 to do that and another $75 to paint the upstairs hallway.

How are we going to afford such luxuries you ask?  Well, we are going to paint our neighbors house: 4 rooms @ $300 per room!  Yessir, $1200 USD plus supplies.  I have a feeling that I’m going to ask the guy for more money because their bedroom is the same cobalt blue that ours was and they want it painted an insanely light color.  Can you say “Daaaamn that’s a lot of coats of paint!”  Well you’re right, it will be a lot of coats of paint; I’m guesstimating at least 4.

We have never paid someone to paint anything for us.  We are the do it yourself and go have a nice dinner with the money you saved kind of family.  We feel like there is nothing that screams homeowner than some poor sucker (me) carrying 7 gallons of paint, of multiple colors, around Home Depot because “we only came for two gallons” and nobody felt the need to get a cart.