Chaos, that’s what reigned at our house, and I’m a person that is greatly influenced by my surroundings. I was trying to keep it together, but it continued to slip further and further into disorder. Still, the work pressed on, the electrical and plumbing finished as much as they could, then insulation. I was overwhelmed, but we couldn’t go back, we were too far into this project!
More work to be finished, the drywall, the mudding and taping, the huge mess of sanding the mudding. We had fine dust covering every surface of our house and there was no getting rid of it! It was everywhere. As soon as I could I began painting. I had decided in the beginning that, because of our tight budget and I really wanted all new flooring throughout the main floor and in the basement, I would do all of the painting. I knew this was a big job, I just didn’t know HOW big. I had been painting most of the summer anyway, because I was re-staining our kitchen cabinets to reuse so that we could save money. I also had several pieces of furniture that needed updating and beautifying, so I was already somewhat burned out on the whole painting projects. So, at the end of September, I began painting the primer on the walls, but I soon realized that painting primer takes a lot longer to paint than just regular paint! I painted and painted and painted! Oh the primer! It seemed to never end, the need for primer. I had painted very few rooms from bare drywall and because they were relatively small, I hadn’t realized how much a bare drywall will suck up the primer and how much needed to be painted on the walls. But I eventually got the walls painted in the kitchen…
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