We have 12 rooms with painted walls in this house.
All but two of them have several coats (many, lots, inches) of paint on them. You get the picture.
When you have nine children and they swap rooms at least yearly (Mom gets bored! Plus you really have to vacuum under the beds and dressers once in a while) you tend to do a lot of painting.
I have painted, my hubby has painted, each of the children has had a turn or two wielding a roller.
Some of the colors have been beautiful. Some challenging to live with. For example our U of M room with maize and blue walls. Or our room with the purple ceiling. We even had a pink closet for a time when our tenacious one wanted her own room and that was the only space left to put her.
This week, all that 'self' painting took a back seat.
We hired a professional.
"Wow, isn't that expensive?" I can hear you asking. Remember I said only two rooms don't have several coats of paint on them? Those two rooms would be the master bedroom and bathroom which we added on to this house when we moved in 21 years ago. The paint that was applied then is what was just covered. The bathroom has not been done yet.
So, if you figure we've only painted twice in 21 years, I would say it was very affordable...and I did not have to do it!!
I have to explain that our bedroom has a pitched ceiling and a beam running down the middle of it. That requires a lot of trips up and down a ladder and a very steady hand so you don't wreck the stain on the beam.
The gentleman we hired came highly recommended by the project manager of the company who is currently putting a new bathroom and laundry space in my mom and dad's house.
Here is his card:
I am terrible with "before" photos but great with after! Here's what it now looks like. I got a close up of the ceiling/wall seam so you can see that straight line!!
Not only did he paint, he repaired a crack in the drywall, filled all the holes from our wall art and put a bead of caulk around the base boards, and all of the door and window trim so that no paint touched any wood.
I am in awe of how beautiful it looks.
Thank you, Thoma!!
