We are having the exterior of our house painted this summer. It has been a very long project!! This is the start of the third week of having the painters here. The fact that it has been raining every other day hasn't helped either! It turns out that our house is quite difficult to paint because of all of the angles and stucco that sucks up paint like a sponge....all these things you never think about when dreaming about a freshly painted house!
At the end of last week, as the painters were nearing the end of the second coat on the house, one of the guys had the misfortune of leaning a little too far to reach for something while dangling 35 feet in the air on his ladder and fell to the ground. Thankfully, he wasn't hurt at all, but to make matters worse he had a five gallon can of paint attached to his ladder which spilled everywhere....all over the freshly painted house, entryway, garden....I could have cried....it was a setback I really could have done without.
Because the project has not been going as smoothly as initially anticipated, Sydney and I have been spending lots of time at home keeping an eye on our new-found painter friends. Syd has been climbing the walls wanting to get outside, unfortunately the backyard looks like this most of the time, so it isn't exactly the safest play area:
Just to add to the fun of the past few weeks, we decided to have some french doors replaced too. I feel as though I have a new career of managing home improvement projects!
In the end, it does feel good to get these long-awaited projects off of our "to-do" list and the house is looking great! I do have to say that I will be glad to have our house free of workers and back to normal though!
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