Monday 23 May 2011

DIY: Dances with Ladders

Two weekends ago, I spent some quality time in Charlottesville, about 9 and a half feet up in the air.  The ceiling of my parents place new place desperately needed some paint (soot stains are quite distracting, as it turns out.) and Brandon and I volunteered.

This is what the living room looked like before:




To get the ladder we rented back to our house, I literally held onto it through the sunroof:






And these are some goofy shots of us painting:

 
 


We spent more than 16 hours painting, over two days, but somehow... halfway through painting, I decided that we MUST paint the end wall some crazy colour.  Brandon's initial response was: "No scope creep!" and I was so impressed by his professional terminology that I almost conceded.  Almost.  No one ever accused me of being that restrained, however.  So we painted one wall blue, too, just for kicks.


After.  With the blue wall.  I don't know that you can tell from this photo, but the ceiling is soooo much lighter than before.
And then when we finished, we treated ourselves to this:



Delicious cheese crackers :)  Good weekend.

1 comment:

  1. i can't believe how resourceful and talented you are, lady!

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