we painted my old room today. the walls are a kind of cream/orange color; the ceiling is white. the ceiling was the hardest. i painted it with a brush. it's completely different when you use a brush versus a roller. with a brush, you need thin watery paint. and you paint two coats each time in different directions. if the paint is thick, the second coat will remove the first coat. with roller you need the paint thick cause you get a better cover and it goes faster. i still need to do a third coat on the ceiling. that would just make it a lot nicer. and then we are changing the carpets tomorrow. hopefully someone will come by and finish the job by the end of the day. the carpets have not been changed in 25 years. i was only a year old when we moved to this house. all in all that was a successful project. well, if the carpet part goes well.


my dad was telling me that he would never paint the room this way. he was talking about how you should properly do this and that. and that it would probably take him 10 days, or more, and he would do a perfect job. he is right. the last time he painted these rooms was 17 years ago. i remember how long it took and that it came out spotless. but it took another 17 years and my imperfectness to paint these rooms again. i guess sometimes being imperfect at least gets the job done. and by my standards the place looks pretty good. i would have no problem living in that room.