After our first couple of experiences of decorating in this house, we'd normally be waiting until a room had been skimmed before painting, but this is a special case. Not only has the bricked-up-doorway-and-replacement-window area already been plastered, but it's likely to be a while before the rest of the room gets the same treatment and before then we have a fireplace to rearchitect, so painting was called for. Not to mention the fact that we chose and bought the paint about two years ago, and wanted to use it before it dried up in the tin.
It was a close call. As it was the colour had settled into a 2-inch thick gloopy layer on the bottom of the tins (we bought two), requiring a good 20 minutes stirring to restore the emulsion to its rightful appley greenness.
After that, we were off. Cutting in and rollering for all we were worth. And trying, against the odds, to get enough coverage from a single coat to avoid having to do any more painting tomorrow. It almost worked.
Knowing that tomorrow would bring only a relatively small amount of repainting, we repaired to the Marble beer house for a well-earned pint or two. Ever noticed how beer tastes funny when you've the smell of emulsion up your nostrils?
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I'm worn out just reading about it!
I got a secondhand bookcase today and spent a fab afternoon shoving it round the kitchen, it is now home to knick knacks. Monty doesn't like it one bit on account of me having to move his favourite chair. As I admired the scarily balanced paraphanalia my eyes shot around the walls and up to the ceiling...Oh dear...The kitchen desperately needs doing (again) but the thought of getting plastered and splattered gives me the pip!
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