I woke up this morning and it was 8:30 am! I couldn't believe it! I never sleep that late! I got up, pulled on my painting clothes, made a pot of coffee, and got to work. I worked steady with 2 15 minute breaks to eat, from 9:00 am until 7:00 pm. I'm just bagged! Knee and arm are paying the price tonight too.
I finished scraping the wallpaper off everywhere except around the back entry. It won't take me long. I got really lucky with how easily that came down! I finished sanding the cupboards, and filled the holes in the walls. Then I took out all the drawers, and took about 75% of the cupboard doors down, as that's all I have room to work on at one time. Taped off everything, and then I got about 75% of the kitchen cupboards primed. What a POKEY job! I had no idea I had so many cupboards!!
Tomorrow the plan is to remove the remaining cupboard doors, prime them, and prime the "other" sides of the doors I did today, prime the bay windowsill and any other odds and ends. I want to completely finish priming first thing. Then I want to finish scraping the wallpaper, filling any remaining holes, and wash down the walls with TSP. Then I'll be ready to paint the first coat on the walls!! When that is finished, I can start the first coat of paint on the cupboards.
Since I'm doing 2 coats of paint on the cupboards, and the walls, and then 2 coats of trim on the cupboards, I expect it to take me the better part of the week to finish, but I'm not certain.
We had garlic, shrimp fetuccini for dinner, and then Sarah and I watched "The Matchstick Men". That was a really good movie. Last night we watched "Cool Creek Manor", which was also very good!
Off to read some blogs, and then PASS OUT!
Posted by Bev on July 4, 2004 9:32 PM | Permalink