February 19, 2005
Painting party
Shortly after Adam and I moved into our co-op, his sister said that we had to paint it and convinced his whole family to come out one day to paint our apartment. That day was today and, despite my reservations about this plan, I helped Adam prep for the big day by moving things away from the wall and trying to tidy up. Save for painting my bedroom in San Francisco when I moved in which was years ago, Adam and I had virtually no painting experience between the two of us. So we were pretty overwhelmed when his sister, brother-in-law, mom, and stepdad came in this morning carrying bags of supplies and started moving everything sans furniture out of the first room we were painting and caulking, sanding, dusting, etc. His brother and sister-in-law came about an hour after and we now had seven people prepping and painting our bedroom (even with the number of people involved, it took about four hours to complete). After realizing the same thing would have to be done with any other rooms we decided to paint, we decided to scrap any plans to paint any other rooms--the bedroom was the only room, if any, that could use a painting and we didn't see how it would be possible to move all our non-furniture items into a freshly painted room and prep and paint another. I think painting the rest of the apartment is best left as a job for the professionals, or at least when we're ready to sell the co-op.
Posted by Jennifer at February 19, 2005 10:28 PM