The Butcher’s best-friend-in-law (his best friend’s wife) came over tonight to help us paint. And tape. And holy sweet Jesus, she taped the kitchen. How can you not love a woman who is willing to tape a kitchen that is not hers?
Here’s where we stand:
Dining room: One more coat and some covering of some spots on the ceiling and then it’s done. Still am in love with the color.
Living room: We used primer in there and so we’re going to be able to cover the whole thing nicely with two coats. It’s a lovely manila envelop yellow–again one of the colors Mack’s wife picked out. It looks great and just needs one more coat.
My room: Taped. Um, and, due to an unfortunate revelation that I am not an artist, ready for primer on one wall.
Kitchen: Taped.
Den: Painted a lovely dark chocolate green or maybe olive brown. The Butcher and I both love it but who the hell knows what to call that color? It needs one more coat.
The Bathroom: We bought what we thought was going to be a light blue from the Habitat store and it ended up being a gray with lavender undertones. It is amazing. It looks so much better, I can’t even tell you. It’s going to need one more coat and it’ll be done.
The Butcher’s Bedroom: Nothing has happened in there. I’m not even sure he’s settled on paint.
But, all in all, I expect we’ll have at least four rooms finished tomorrow. And by we, I mean the Butcher, because he really is carrying the vast majority of the load on this, which I appreciate more than I can say.
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