It seems my blogging hiatus occurred during all the painting of the apartment, and so I haven’t posted the results.
All of the re-painting has been completed now. In fact, it was completed over a month ago when I raced to finish the last room in time for when I thought the piano would arrive. I’m very happy with the result; I feel the place has gained some maturity.
Amy helped a great deal with a lot of the painting. Without her help I would not have been able to complete a room per weekend, and would most definitely have thrown in the paint-covered towel. We even got adventurous by painting stripes in the bedroom. Though at first my bedroom looked a little like a circus tent, I remixed some colours and tamed it down a little.
Brett pitched in for the final room to get it all completed. We were originally going to do a checkerboard pattern, but I was well and truly over it by that time.
I think I underestimated the amount of disruption it would cause, not to mention the huge amount of work. The living room/entrance/kitchen was a mammoth effort which started around 8am and didn’t finish until about midnight pretty much non-stop. Though, when you’re painting something like that, there seems no point to stopping as everything is bundled up in the middle of the room covered in drop sheets anyway. At the end of it, as long as I don’t think about the hours I spent in the shower cleaning brushes and rollers (and myself) only to go to bed exhausted, blistered and still feeling filthy, it was very much worth the effort.
This is why I paid people to paint my place. You’ve done a good job though.