Our First Day at D.I.Y-ing

To save a few bucks, Steve and I decided to paint the house ourselves. Between the both of us, we have plenty of experience painting walls when we were younger. And of course, we have our trusty Home Improvement 1-2-3 book. No sweat....

Off we went to Home Depot, Walmart, and Osh. Took us several hours just to pick out basic and essential painting supplies- and this does not count the actual paint- which we decided to hold off on purchasing until the following day when we had more light.

We only started with the dining room and kitchen. Whoa! I had forgotten how time consuming it was to tape off all the trimmings and outlets. In order to save on time, we instituted a segregation of duties.... I took over the prepping of the walls, while Steve applied the primer.

Five hours later, at 10:30p.m., we were wiped and ready to call the next Paint Contractor in the Yellow Pages. We even - very briefly- entertained the idea of going to Home Depot to hire someone from their skilled booth area.

Anyway, we're going to evaluate our "options" (aka budget) and decide what to do before the weekend is over. After today, we're not feeling the urge to paint anymore.

Stay tuned......