... in my adult years I should say (years after 30). I had some pretty bad ones in my youth. Okay, this one is really tame, but still. Spring cleaning has begun and I started with painting my bathroom. It was looking so dingy. Oh God, if ever there was a more miserable, tedious way to pass the precious few hours we have in life--I've painted plenty of rooms in my day, but I'd forgotten what it's like.
The main thing is I couldn't reach everywhere and the room is so small the ladder only fit inside in one way, so to get all the other spots that needed to be painted, I had to teeter on boxes (filled with all my Duke research) and stretch and strain and push, and one coat looked like hell so I had to do that all TWICE.
Oh God, this post is not capturing the horror. Oh and the off-white color I selected looks too yellow-y on the walls. The one good thing is the pretty new sparkly looking shower curtain I put up afterwards.
Posted by Horn at May 5, 2008 07:27 AMAh c'mon-painting is fun !!!!
that is, when one can get someone else to do it:-)
Posted by: david at May 5, 2008 05:06 PMHopefully there will be no next time but I have successfully used a roller on the end of an extendible pole to paint the stairwell which also would not take a ladder. For the part where the wall meets the ceiling, I got a little gizmo at the paint store that also fits on the pole. It was a little pad with tiny wheels on it and I may never use a paint brush again to cut in at the ceiling, it worked so well.
Posted by: Julia at May 8, 2008 07:15 AMI had that extender pole!! But it was so unwieldy. Still, it made the job more do-able. I wish I had had that pad thing, because it was that part of getting the place where the walls meet painted, the part the roller can't reach, that made it such a nightmare.
I'd say "next time" but there will be no next time. Like David said, it will be fun when I have someone else do it.
Posted by: Stacy Horn at May 8, 2008 12:46 PM