Taupe Ceilings?
Do you ever wonder why we even try to make things appear nice and pretty? The bf bought a condo in the past year and has been working on improvements since. He started with painting. When I was there in September, he had taped up some of the wall that he wanted to paint but not all of it (yet). On my arrival after staying with his parent’s for a few days, it was painfully clear that he had not really gotten any where with that project since I was there last. Okay, even I hate the blue tape at this point and I have only been subjected to it for the two weeks I was there last time. Not to mention that the banisters were completely nasty. He was planning to repaint but I figured it was worth a try to just clean them.
Three days later…
The walls are now taupe. The blue tape is gone from most of the walls. There is still a section by the laundry closet that needs to be painted but that isn’t something you have to look at every time you are watching tv. The only thing… not only are the walls taupe but some of the ceiling is too. There are little blotches where we accidentally hit the ceiling. The biggest dratter of all is that because it has this “texturing” thing, if you try to clean off the paint, it removes the stippling/stucco. Aaaargh. So, great, the walls are taupe but now the ceiling looks like ass. Really, why do we even try?
On the upside, I was able to remove most of the nastiness on the handrails. I did this little cleaning job while the bf was getting a tall ladder from his brother. (we needed a tall ladder because this painting was being done on the stairwell area and he has entirely too high ceilings) As a result of my go-getter-ness, while the painting was going on, we inevitably touched the handrails and got the darn thing dirty AGAIN. At least the second cleaning only took a few minutes instead of a few hours! The handrails look so clean that someone actually thought we had repainted them, and the walls look great (except for one small spot – I’m not going into that little debacle), but the ceiling now needs some serious attention. Darn it, drat, snarf, and shit! A house (or condo as is the case in this example) really is just a work in progress all of the time! Wonder what the project will be the next time I am out there... hmmm.....
Three days later…
The walls are now taupe. The blue tape is gone from most of the walls. There is still a section by the laundry closet that needs to be painted but that isn’t something you have to look at every time you are watching tv. The only thing… not only are the walls taupe but some of the ceiling is too. There are little blotches where we accidentally hit the ceiling. The biggest dratter of all is that because it has this “texturing” thing, if you try to clean off the paint, it removes the stippling/stucco. Aaaargh. So, great, the walls are taupe but now the ceiling looks like ass. Really, why do we even try?
On the upside, I was able to remove most of the nastiness on the handrails. I did this little cleaning job while the bf was getting a tall ladder from his brother. (we needed a tall ladder because this painting was being done on the stairwell area and he has entirely too high ceilings) As a result of my go-getter-ness, while the painting was going on, we inevitably touched the handrails and got the darn thing dirty AGAIN. At least the second cleaning only took a few minutes instead of a few hours! The handrails look so clean that someone actually thought we had repainted them, and the walls look great (except for one small spot – I’m not going into that little debacle), but the ceiling now needs some serious attention. Darn it, drat, snarf, and shit! A house (or condo as is the case in this example) really is just a work in progress all of the time! Wonder what the project will be the next time I am out there... hmmm.....
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