Sunday Mornings and maskign tape
Eleonore Beaudoin
woud he abolish that seventh day, one where no work woudl
be, and where only inner meditation and communication with
God was allowed...
Thanks to you all bunch of schmooks;=-);-), I find
myself today having on the program the followign itens:
-Remove masking tape from wall over baseboards that were painted
with three coatings of white yesterday.
-Remove masking tape from oak floors where baseboards were
given three coatings of white yesterday.
-Apply maskling taope on the white baseboards to paint the
wall solid dark deep green in those spots that the ex tenant
(flat mate) left white, and try and make the retouches not
show at all.
-Do launcdry for workweeek ahead.
-Go visit this person that has been waiting for a visit for
weeks, even if my schedule is too tight to do such things
right now...
-Clean first floor.
-Iron and press clothes for week (where is OB when you need
him anyway???;-):)) I do happen to love rironing, but to
hate havign to do it on the same day as painting and floor
scrubbing:(. Maybe he coudl scrub the floors while I do the
ironing??:) Why shoudl HE get the nice job, huh? Huh?:):))
-Wash freezer thoroughly before repluggign the silly thing.
-If you coudl get there, Chloe, then call it a day, cause
you'll be dead exausted.
-Oh shoots. No you don't: got to invent clothes to wear for
that supper-theater show tomorrow evening, where jeans are
no accepted, and where you don't want to so emabarrass your
son while on stage, that he would flunk his lines (sort of
a bad thing when one he has the main role I would guess...).
Whatever happened to those Sundays where,. for a quarter
thrown in a basket, the poor were fed, while we would go home
starved after mass and sit down to devoure a roast beef on a
Sunday Table, and where people had all day to relax and
enjoy, and be available for theuir neighbor, and their
neighbor for them, not to render services, but just to
socialize and invite each other over for an afternoon friendly
family or friends good simple time?
I think I will reinvent that day...
We really were given plenty then for that little quarter in
that basket...
No work meant the parents either took us to the beach, or on
a picnic, or tobogganing, and spent family quality time, the
time fo the week wehre we also woudl all sit together and
chit chat, and where the parents woudl have poeple over,
colleagues, neighbors, or even strangers stopping by to ask
for a slice of bread, where I would help my parents after a
simple eyewink from them and go fill bags in the numerous
freezers always on the farm, where all those goodsthat came
from the farm, meat, veggies, etc, were there and endless,
and woudl brign such hope in the eyes of the hungry and
depressed...But so much more happiness in ours...For feelign
lucky, for being happy to have worked so hard in the garden
to make those things grow, for knowign this cow I loved was
slaughtered, but gave her life to feed soemoen hope and
strenght...And everywhere everyone did the same...The next
time or the time before, it was that man that ahd given my
parents and others bags when they were hungry or needed to
feed their family....
Yep. Quite a life for a quarter that was....
I wish I had regular week ends off all the time instead of
being on shofts. Id recreate the day for myself...
But then again, who woudl happen to be home woudl I go and
visit them...? Who would not be working or sleeping late
that would eb avalable to visit me?
There was good in those Days....
If God rested after the seven days, who are we to think we
can do better and work all days through anyway, an still
ahve space and tiem to love instead of being frustrated,
out of breath, dead tired, stressed?
Hm. I wonder how many diseases/conditiosn we got to see
bloom after that Rest Day was gone...Heart attacks, burn
outs, nervous break downs, sleeping disorders, family fights
and quarrels born of constant stress, and who knows, even
murders over a Sunday pizza, not any different from the
Monday night ones, insetad of just peaceful chit chat over a
sunday roast...
Nah. I think I will fidn to make myself a Sunday, a Sabbath
of my own...One day of the week, each week, to live inner Love
and to bring out that love for my neighbor in the week to come.
And I will even throw a quarter in my own basket to use
when there is enough to put aside for my neighbor...
I'll make it five dollars when I can afford to without
taking it from my neighbor's wallet:)....
Have a good Sunday out there!
Have you taken your family to se a Walt disbney cartoon at
the cinema lately?
Have you invited your parents over for a sunday lunch lately?
Have you invited your neighbor?
Your colleagues?
When was the last time you gave a quarter to Life and Love...?
I hope I can one day be able to afford all that and what
comes with it again....
:)
Chloe
--
neverwasanangelagain
I'd love to help you paint! I used to paint scenery for our shows in high
school. Poorly, I might add, but it was still fun. You'd have to iron your
own clothes, though. I hate ironing.
My goals for today are:
1) Finish grading my papers
2)Plan my lessons for next week
3)Write cover letters for my resume in the big JOB HUNT
4)Clean my little corner of the world
In other words, you're definitely not alone! I miss Sundays, too. I miss
dinner at my grandparents, playing chess with Grandpa (He always let me win
; )) Going to the park...
I hope you get alot done today!
Angela
--
"Everything ends badly...If it didn't, it wouldn't end"
Eleonore Beaudoin <bc...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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<snip a wonderful message that I would carry if my computer weren't so picky
about included text>
OB
Eleonore Beaudoin wrote:
> -Remove masking tape from wall over baseboards that were painted
> with three coatings of white yesterday.
I iiiiiiiiiiiiiioooopp (sorry that was me just trying to clean some muck
from the keyboard) plan to do some painting too, quite soon. Do you have
any tips? I've never painted any walls before. Is there any kind of
paint that doesn't gradually film over with a patina of nicotine?
I remember Liz once telling me how she painted a room of her house with
tea. She said the effect was quite interesting. Has anyone else tried
that?
> -Iron and press clothes for week (where is OB when you need
> him anyway???;-):)) I do happen to love rironing, but to
> hate havign to do it on the same day as painting and floor
> scrubbing:(. Maybe he coudl scrub the floors while I do the
> ironing??:) Why shoudl HE get the nice job, huh? Huh?:):))
I am quite willing to scrub any floors as long as I am allowed to listen
to Beethoven at the same time and take frequent breaks for cigarettes
and cuba libres. I am particularly good at removing stains caused by
cats throwing up during the night.
Eleonore Beaudoin
Hi, Angie,
There are things where he hands can be busy and the mind
drift away: ironing is one of them, just like painting is...
So far, I accomplished gettign myself a few bananas to last
the week (they apparently are worth a steak, minus the bad
cholsterol:), and are also a good source of vitamins and
minerals), some eggs (to get some cholesterol somewhere!!:)),
a jar of mayo to make egg salads and pasta salads fro
lunches that will keep me going through the week, and six
cans of soup on special with coupons that I could bring to
work after cooking them here (the add milk type for some,
where I don't see myself bring the qaurt of milk at work?;-).
I also managed to call the person I was to visit and find
out she was out, and left a message saying I would visit as
soon as I can, and can never know for sure when I will have
a week end day off or not with that jobm, where the ones I
have so far barely suffice to catch up the things I must to
one day make myself have some real Sundays:). Sundays with a
cherry on top: relaxation and listenign to music and
enjoying the work done and the being able to finally be lazy
once a week on housework and chores:).
Then I came back home, having a reaction to the paint that
gives cold like symptoms, with me breatjhign and making
bubbles so irritated the sinus and throat are. Oddly, soem
water pain I find more of an irritant to the breathing
system than oil based ones...
I then made the schedule of the day be nwo the folliwing:
Paint the room after doing the masking tape job, where one
spot on a retouch on a wall does show and where I might have
to redo that wall. Dunno yet, shall see how I feel after
doing the lower part of the wall (retouches as well) how
the lungs feel by then...
After that, time tonhave a break, probably read email and asl,
and do a few light things like picking up the garbage bags
and replacing them in the house, stuff like that, of less
demanding nature on a body:).
Then, since I read there were two good movies in a row this
evening on tv, and sicne I opted for food rather then
renting a video last evening:), I will get on the
"commercial time Mode". This oen si a very productive time,
wehre one sits and watches tv, and is using all commercial
advertisement time to pick soemthign up in the house.
Most of those will be used to pick up landry:), and go throw
it in the washer, then in the dryer, etc. Then iron the
right sleve of a shirt, next commercial, the lft one:), etc,
all that so I donlt end up exausted nor overloaded with work
undone (or things that were to be catch up on to free more
time in the future week ends in the longer run).
Would be much nicer to paint in good company...I have no
artistic painting talent, but with Eloi's dad,w e used to do
decorative wall painting...Oddly enough, people prefered
what I did cause they had no artistic taste! Honest! He
woudl do soemthign with a touch of surreal, like a green sky
and blue grass, and people woudl be almost horrified, while
I woudl do the traditional blue and white sky:), and the
green grass, sort of thing:).
Our business posters were, oddly again, made from a drawing
I had made, for a first tiem soemthign resembling somethign
people could see was the same thing I drew: normally what I
drew, say a cardbox, woudl be mistaken forna fridge or car
by people:), that si how bad I am:). That time, I happened
to in a zap make that drawng that I wish I coudl put my
hands on, for the subject it was:).
It was a simple tree, with valleys below in the barckground,
and in the tree, a cow was sitting, offering her belly to
the sun, her eyes closed, and a straw of wheat stickign out
of her mouth, like oen does when they are outdoors and pick
some and chew or nibble on those?:). Her arms were crossed
behind her head...Her legs crossed, just cheatign life and
enjoying relaxing...I guess I already was missing Sundays
and was dreaming of being a big cow;-)L:), lazy and living
in a tree and escaping all the routine and so on:):).
But the sort of humour in the drawing or dreamery in it I liked.
I redid it in acrylic on a daycare wall at the reqwuest of a
customer. Apparentl all the other walls we did there were
painted over, save for that oen and one of the Little Prince
I had made...That was decades ago, by now all those must be
gone, as that daycare was sold as a private house later...
Simply, Eloi;s dad was puttign all his time ont he one HUGE
paintign he was doing, a huge swiss like cartoon like child
like painting of a little girl with braids picking flowers
of all colors by a series of huge mountains, with her bunny
rabbit friend by her. I then figuredthat at that rate, we
woudl nto eb able to feed kiddo and ourselves, as we had to
do all walls in a week end, so it woudl be dry and safe for
the kids t be there on the next Monday, so necessity made me
patch the other walls with images I replicated from books
and stuff, save fr the cow one, where I never could ten put
imagination out of the head and onto soem other medium than
words...
I do acrylic painting, but that si too expensive for me
right now, so I have not in a year or so now. The ones I did
poeple asked for and I am left with only the botched things
I did, smudges:), as a memory of what I painted:). M kid
asked forthe forst oen I did, which was representing by
memory the appletrees at the back of my parent's house, but
painted as if the view was from one laying in the grass
in the middle of them. The trees then all look like they are
leanign towards one point, the "person laying in the grass"
that is of course not present on the painting. Just the
angle of the trees and scenary represents that...:). He got
upset at me for giving the other pantings, but they truely
were nothing good at all...
One of them was a replica in acruylic of a piccie I took in
the fall of the Gatineau park, and it was so like the piccie
that one coudl not tell thenm apart:).
I then felt that one was maybe okay to give a penpal, not
too ugly, but had wuite a few nasty comments from the so
called penpal on those:). Where the day he got upset, he
wrote semthign like "And I never put your paintign on a
wall, and hid it in soem box where I hope I never happen to
accidentally see it again, nor anyoen that woudl ever see a
box lyign aroudn at my palce and happen to look through it,
there!" Pffft!:) Poeple sometimes:):). Then oen day I sent
anoher person the two I ahd at hand, that were smudged and
so on, but the best I ahd left among the smudged ones that
people did not ask for, and I never heard a word about
those:), and did not ask if they were in a box:). I also
sent that one piccies of me, wehre they were lost, probably
thrown out with the little smudged paintings too:).
I started making it a point to send penpals some smudged
oens:), to see hwo they are for real and if they can discern
between carign and being Picasso:). Most seem Picassos:),
hten why would they need good painting anyway, rights??;-):)
Heheh:)
Well, that was my procrastinating blab again.
Wish the ears would unglue and the eardrums pop out to
where they belong, somewhere closer tot he ears than the
center of this hollow thing on my shoulders:).
Will ut music on to paint and will tell myself that si Angie
singing as shegrades her students' work, singign to keep me
company in that empty room I will be sneezing and caughing
my thyroid out from:):)
I hope that we both can soon enjoy playign chess or whatever
it is that nmakes us feel serene and happy on each our Sunday!
I am a bad chess player, but I am not a frustrating one
then: you can win all the time!:):)
If you ever visit aroudn ehre, then stop by, and we can pant
another room in the mornign and play chess in the evenigns,
and keep the afternoon to do whatever else we'd feel like:)
Maybe ironing:):):) L:):)
Take care,
Chloe
--
Nothing Face
up, they discover the house decoration to have been done in exactly the way
they wanted it to be, and not too expensive. Oh well, here we go...
OTS
Eleonore Beaudoin wrote in message <8b3bdt$ehm$1...@freenet9.carleton.ca>...
Eleonore Beaudoin
Any idea why cats wait for nightime to throw up on a floor???
Argh!:)
My collie also has this bad habit: the secodn you wash the
floor, for soem reason, he poushes all his food on the floor
out of his bowl with his noise. Makes you wodner why you go
through the troubel of washign the floors at all.
I wonder if a mix of dog food and cat stains coudl not be
done on those cushion floors to buy as is...Mayeb no oen
woudl ever see the fifference if I used those...?;-)
Oainting, well yeah, if you are serious, I can help with the
bit I know,. I used oil based in my life as well as water
based paints, and woudl recommend water base paint, but
beware: it can not be aplied ion a wall where oil based
paint was put on, without a sealer oprior to the water paint
application: else the paint woudl all peel off.
It can be woerth ther troubel though to put the sealer on
and then apply the water base paint: for one thing, the
brush marks are way easier to deal with with water based
paint: for one that never painted before, that woudl ensure
a better final result.
As for nicotuine stains, I see the painterts in this
building complex roll over it allthe time. They use water
based paint, which also has an important advantage: you can
litterally make it thicker here and thinner there: as long
as the surface is covered, you will not see differences in
the walls once done, i.e. no spots for that much (unless
you paint over a colr with a very different oen, liek
puttign green on white or vice versa).
For the smell to be less bugging, put a bit of vanilla in
the paint. A few drops will make the scent be way less
bugging or itritating.
Be sure to have the products you need before you start
nothign is more of a killer than to do it as I did, and have
to stop in the middle of a job to go get masking tape or
brushes and rolls and so on...
I wish you coudl access my ebox and ask me what you woudl
need to knbwo precisely, what color you put on what color,
if the wall is with oil based paint or not as it is,
what room it is (can make a difference in your choice of
glossy, semi-gloss or flat paint for the finish: places
where you want to wash more often, like qweashrooms and
kitchens can use a paint with a more satined finish that
makes it easier to wash. Poeple tend to avoid glossy though
then and opt for semi gloss, to avoid the sort of flash
blurs effects (too glossy? on walls. (brilliancy effects?).
Just tell em what you plan on and I will see how I can mayeb
help...
I am sure that what I woudl not knwo many in here coudl know
and asnwer you about.
Good luck!(Is that for the firethere was in your kitchen
years ago...?;-):) Or did you paint that one already?:)
Chloe
OB
(obl...@my-deja.com) writes: > Eleonore Beaudoin wrote: >
>> -Remove masking tape from wall over baseboards that were painted
>> with three coatings of white yesterday.
>
> I iiiiiiiiiiiiiioooopp (sorry that was me just trying to clean some muck
> from the keyboard) plan to do some painting too, quite soon. Do you have
> any tips? I've never painted any walls before. Is there any kind of
> paint that doesn't gradually film over with a patina of nicotine?
>
> I remember Liz once telling me how she painted a room of her house with
> tea. She said the effect was quite interesting. Has anyone else tried
> that?
>
>
>> -Iron and press clothes for week (where is OB when you need
>> him anyway???;-):)) I do happen to love rironing, but to
>> hate havign to do it on the same day as painting and floor
>> scrubbing:(. Maybe he coudl scrub the floors while I do the
>> ironing??:) Why shoudl HE get the nice job, huh? Huh?:):))
>
> I am quite willing to scrub any floors as long as I am allowed to listen
> to Beethoven at the same time and take frequent breaks for cigarettes
> and cuba libres. I am particularly good at removing stains caused by
> cats throwing up during the night.
>
>
--
neverwasanangelagain
Eleonore Beaudoin <bc...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:8b3bdt$ehm$1...@freenet9.carleton.ca...
> There are things where he hands can be busy and the mind
> drift away: ironing is one of them, just like painting is...
That's probably why I don't like ironing...my mind drifts enough on its own
lol : )
<snip about food>
Well, at least you got the important bases covered...bananas and eggs, eh?
An interesting combination ; ). Didja pick up some Ben and Jerry's ice
cream for me for when I come help you paint? ; ) Or the next best thing,
anyway, since they probably don't have B&J there.
I know what you mean about working on the weekends. I used to hate it
passionately, though Sundays usually weren't TOO terrible...they were short
days, at least, and we never got busy until about 2 or so.
Sundays with a
> cherry on top: relaxation and listenign to music and
> enjoying the work done and the being able to finally be lazy
> once a week on housework and chores:).
AH, sounds great! I managed to get some school stuff done and just finished
cleaning my room...took 2 hours, for one room! Maybe I should clean more
often. lol
About the paint...I used to have those reactions, too. Make sure you open
enough windows. They've been painting in my house recently, and the smell
was really unbearable for awhile!
Don't forget to take time out to relax...extremely important. Otherwise,
when you start working again, it will feel like you had no weekend
whatsoever!
About traditional painting...I can't do it. Something always goes
awry...Good thing I never had to paint any people! I can't even draw stick
people with legs the same length! At least you can do traditional...it's
better, anyway. I used to get to paint trees and bushes...those were
fun...swirls of green, my favorite color! I had ten greens to choose from,
and was in heaven!
> It was a simple tree, with valleys below in the barckground,
> and in the tree, a cow was sitting, offering her belly to
> the sun, her eyes closed, and a straw of wheat stickign out
> of her mouth, like oen does when they are outdoors and pick
> some and chew or nibble on those?:). Her arms were crossed
> behind her head...Her legs crossed, just cheatign life and
> enjoying relaxing...I guess I already was missing Sundays
> and was dreaming of being a big cow;-)L:), lazy and living
> in a tree and escaping all the routine and so on:):).
> But the sort of humour in the drawing or dreamery in it I liked.
Seems very peaceful...Cows have got to be my favorite farm animals, though
they're kind of scary looking, up close.
<snip all the description of your wonderful art, so I can send this. >
I am jealous, though, that you have that talent. Drawing was never one of
my strongpoints, though I often wished it were.
> Wish the ears would unglue and the eardrums pop out to
> where they belong, somewhere closer tot he ears than the
> center of this hollow thing on my shoulders:).
I hope so too...Hopefully, you'll be better when you finish the painting.
>
> Will ut music on to paint and will tell myself that si Angie
> singing as shegrades her students' work, singign to keep me
> company in that empty room I will be sneezing and caughing
> my thyroid out from:):)
Careful! Don't cough out any lungs! Papers are done. Only things left are
the planning and the resume stuff, neither of which are going to get done,
because I just don't feel like it.
>
> I am a bad chess player, but I am not a frustrating one
> then: you can win all the time!:):)
> If you ever visit aroudn ehre, then stop by, and we can pant
> another room in the mornign and play chess in the evenigns,
> and keep the afternoon to do whatever else we'd feel like:)
> Maybe ironing:):):) L:):)
I haven't played since my grandpa died, about 15 years ago...I don't think I
could win ; )
No ironing for me, thanks. I won't even put my clean clothes away! I go
through life very wrinkly...; )
Angela
ric
Eleonore Beaudoin wrote in message <8b3fqf$ki5$1...@freenet9.carleton.ca>...
>Any idea why cats wait for nightime to throw up on a floor???
>Argh!:)
they hope you won't notice it in the dark...
>My collie also has this bad habit: the secodn you wash the
>floor, for soem reason, he poushes all his food on the floor
>out of his bowl with his noise. Makes you wodner why you go
>through the troubel of washign the floors at all.
well you don't expect him to eat off a dirty floor, do you?...
>I wonder if a mix of dog food and cat stains coudl not be
>done on those cushion floors to buy as is...Mayeb no oen
>woudl ever see the fifference if I used those...?;-)
if you get a dog and cat that licks a lot, nothing will be left on the floor...
>Painting, well yeah, if you are serious, I can help with the
>bit I know,. I used oil based in my life as well as water
>based paints, and woudl recommend water base paint, but
>beware: it can not be aplied ion a wall where oil based
>paint was put on, without a sealer oprior to the water paint
>application: else the paint woudl all peel off.
>It can be woerth ther troubel though to put the sealer on
>and then apply the water base paint: for one thing, the
>brush marks are way easier to deal with with water based
>paint: for one that never painted before, that woudl ensure
>a better final result.
<I have no attempted amusing comment for this space>
>As for nicotuine stains, I see the painterts in this
>building complex roll over it allthe time. They use water
>based paint, which also has an important advantage: you can
>litterally make it thicker here and thinner there: as long
>as the surface is covered, you will not see differences in
>the walls once done, i.e. no spots for that much (unless
>you paint over a colr with a very different oen, liek
>puttign green on white or vice versa).
I wonder if anyone has ever tried painting with nicotine...
>For the smell to be less bugging, put a bit of vanilla in
>the paint. A few drops will make the scent be way less
>bugging or itritating.
mmmmmmm, vanilla <drool>
>Be sure to have the products you need before you start
>nothign is more of a killer than to do it as I did, and have
>to stop in the middle of a job to go get masking tape or
>brushes and rolls and so on...
I've done that... then, when I bought the house and had the funds and space, I
turned my garage into a wharehouse and had extras of everything I could ever
think of playing with or creating with or building with or making a mess with :)
>I wish you coudl access my ebox and ask me what you woudl
>need to knbwo precisely, what color you put on what color,
>if the wall is with oil based paint or not as it is,
>what room it is (can make a difference in your choice of
>glossy, semi-gloss or flat paint for the finish: places
>where you want to wash more often, like qweashrooms and
>kitchens can use a paint with a more satined finish that
>makes it easier to wash. Poeple tend to avoid glossy though
>then and opt for semi gloss, to avoid the sort of flash
>blurs effects (too glossy? on walls. (brilliancy effects?).
I like blurs... sparklies too :)
>Just tell em what you plan on and I will see how I can mayeb
>help...
Chloe helps everybody, that's why I love ya :)
>I am sure that what I woudl not knwo many in here coudl know
> and asnwer you about.
obviously not me ;)
>Good luck!(Is that for the firethere was in your kitchen
>years ago...?;-):) Or did you paint that one already?:)
fire?... ouch... all better I hope...
> Chloe
> OB
>(obl...@my-deja.com) writes: > Eleonore Beaudoin wrote: >
>>> -Remove masking tape from wall over baseboards that were painted with three
coatings of white yesterday.
>> I iiiiiiiiiiiiiioooopp (sorry that was me just trying to clean some muck
from the keyboard) plan to do some painting too, quite soon. Do you have any
tips? I've never painted any walls before. Is there any kind of paint that
doesn't gradually film over with a patina of nicotine?
enamel?... paint corners and baseboards with a 3 or 4 inch brush first, even
strokes to maintain consistent paint thickness... it won't look completely
smoothe until it dries... then roll 9 inch roller in roller pan half full of
paint so the entire roller is covered with paint... roll once on upper part of
pan to remove excess... careful about drips as you roll roller on wall in long
even roll-strokes... as roller gets drier, the paint will be applied thinner, so
sometimes go over the last few strokes as you start with a paint soaked
roller... usually two coats of would be good to cover dark colors or nicotine
stains... cheaper paints might take a third coat...
>> I remember Liz once telling me how she painted a room of her house with tea.
She said the effect was quite interesting. Has anyone else tried that?
nope, but it sure sounds interesting... say hi to her next time you drop her a
line and thanks for reminding me I should too...
>>> -Iron and press clothes for week (where is OB when you need
>>> him anyway???;-):)) I do happen to love rironing, but to
>>> hate havign to do it on the same day as painting and floor
>>> scrubbing:(. Maybe he coudl scrub the floors while I do the
>>> ironing??:) Why shoudl HE get the nice job, huh? Huh?:):))
I'm just loafing around here today...
>> I am quite willing to scrub any floors as long as I am allowed to listen to
Beethoven at the same time and take frequent breaks for cigarettes and cuba
libres. I am particularly good at removing stains caused by cats throwing up
during the night.>>
and I heard you are you're housebroken (I'm still working on that ;)
honest butting into conversations, ric
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ric
white might require a third coat... sometimes even more in dirtier spots...
might help to scrub some, but then allow enough time to dry thoroughly... ...
OB wrote in message <38D565A1...@my-deja.com>...
>Eleonore Beaudoin wrote:
>> For the smell to be less bugging, put a bit of vanilla in
>> the paint.
>Chloe, you are an angel. Whole pods?
>> Good luck!(Is that for the firethere was in your kitchen
>> years ago...?;-):) Or did you paint that one already?:)
>No, the effects of the fire are still visible. I plan to paint all the walls,
>inside and out. I will be painting them white. This is the colour they are
>supposed to be, although now they are the colour of a stained toilet-bowl in a
>public loo.
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OB
Eleonore Beaudoin
Then if the walls are not white (tobacco and just the normal
yellowing after time, say), it is worth it to buy a more
expensive pant that can allow you to give only two coatings,
or at times even just one.
Here, I dunno what was on the walls before I moved in, I
think saw dust from the floors being sanded and varnished
before I moved in, which they painted over in oplaces. The
result was desastrous: whatever it was woudl sort of make
leakign marks on the walls, woudl sort of come out of the
paint and slide down like drops of stain, totally
disgusting. I had to argue with them after two weeks as the
whole hoiuse was that way, to get them to please coem and
see: the painters said they ahd never seen that happen
before, and on seign it, did repaint the whole house, save
one wall under the dining room window that I might just redo
myself. Somehow it did nto have that yukky stuff on it...
BTW, Ric;'s words about how to paint are excellent advice.
I was thinkign of you while painting and trying to put nots
in my swisschese brain on howto not make the strokes show
on the wall, in what direction to paint to not affect the
"gloss" to look dull in one spot and shiny in the other..
It truely is way simpler than it all sounds...
For startes, it can be a good thing to try on quiote a few
layers of newspapers, to get to see how it goes whenthe
roller is not as full of opaint and so on, but really...One
gets the hang of it after just two ft of it on a wall,
and they can then go back to the forst two feet that are
still wet (water base dries in a matter of hours:). However
do not put furniture or objects pushed back on it (liek a
bpx, a couch, etc) for five weeks they say, to not get the
paint to peel off when you move the couch again or box, etc).
Really, I am sure yu can do a good job of it, and after half
a wall know all of the things you have to know, and again,
be able to retouch whatever you woudl nto have known as you
started before it is dry, so...
And in case you wodner if you shoudl or not pain the walls:
DO IT! I remember painting white walls white again and
wodnerign if it was worth it, and feelign like a million
dolalrs after I did repaint it, not belivng the difference
it made.
Again, Ric;'s info was excellent and soemthign oen shoudl
knwo too t start the right way.
Best to you
Chloe
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