still painting

The room is coming together. It started as "let's put in a new floor". Doesn't sound too bad! If you are going to put in a new floor you naturally have to move everything out of the room. We have a four bedroom house with just Trudy and myself here. You would think that emptying the room wouldn't be that hard. We have to stay in one room (already furnished), Cameron's room has, for years, held the stuff he didn't want to tote around, Courtney's room was going to have to be it. But her room wasn't exactly empty. Collapse the stuff in her room, stack the stuff from our room. We are moved. I'm tired. Bring in the tarps. What? Tarps? What do tarps have to do with a new floor? Well, if you are going to put in a new floor you might as well take care of a couple of other things while you are at it. Here is the short list as it stands now. Remove popcorn ceiling. Paint ceiling. Install new overhead light. Don't forget the special primer for the closet that doesn't get enough air circulation. Paint closet, but first remove clothes hanging bars, shelves, supports. Might as well rebuild the closets in a different configuration. Remove closet doors (goes without saying) and don't loose any of the hardware that goes with the doors and curtain rods. Patch the walls, give the closet a couple of coats (after the primer, not the special primer, the other primer). Paint the walls. It could have been worse. Four walls, two colors. Trips to the paint store, hardware store, lighting store, flooring store (actually three different stores). Did I mention the new window? Did I mention that the new window will be bigger than the existing one? Did I mention that it is on the second floor? Remove the molding since new molding is required. And not just replacing existing molding but adding crown molding. And the trim paint. I hope that when I tear out the carpet that the sub floor is ready for the wood flooring and doesn't need a lot of prep. We'll see. Just finished painting two walls. So the project grows. I'll have to admit, it sounded like a good ideal at the time. Tomorrow, fetch the wood and more painting. Trudy is at her mother's. She is managing the project through facebook pictures.

Ron