since we started our house hunt a few years ago (it was on an off for a couple of years), andy has been talking about his big plans for the basement. he had grand plans for an ultimate "man cave" complete with a bar, Virginia Tech themed paint, football memorabilia, and a shuffle board table. all along, i have agreed to let him have his "man cave" and even agreed to help him with any of the projects he was working on. in the back of my head, i kind of knew that it would either 1) take such a long time for andy to get around to doing any of it that he would forget or 2) not happen because of our laziness. i know us well enough to know that we kind of procrastinate on pretty much everything and end up taking the easy way out a lot of the time (we both drive cars we hate because we covet our weekends and don't want to give one up for car shopping, so will most likely drive our cars until we are no longer physically able...the AC in andy's car is showing some signs of weakness, so maybe it will be sooner rather than later).
this weekend we finally got around to crossing off one of the big milestones toward having the dream man cave. we painted! and it took a really long time!
here is a photo pre-painting / post-taping:
(notice all of my measuring tools on the footstool: level, old school ruler, tape measurer, pencil and painter's tape)
and some post-painting pictures:
sorry for the iphone quality...my battery on my other camera was dead and i didn't want to wait to take pictures...again, i'm lazy.
the process of taping and measuring and taping over again took the largest chunk of our time. we started working at about 11 am on saturday and ended for the day at 4:30 am on sunday. after six hours or so of sleep, we went to the big McD's and stopped at home depot to pick up some more paint. we painted on sunday from about noon until 4:30. we finished up with some white paint details after work on monday and finished up at about 11:30 pm.
since i enjoy doing arts & crafts type things, i had a great time. i was singing along to the music blaring out of my iphone dock and was humming along at 4 in the morning. andy was not as amused at the whole painting thing and was pretty much grumpy all day sunday, but appreciative of all of the help i was giving him.
now that the pain in our backs has started to die down and the blisters have popped, we are both thrilled with the way it came out. it definitely gives us a lot more confidence as home owners and aspiring diy-ers.
this project has definitely whet my appetite for painting and decorating.
i hope to start on the office/guest room this weekend or sooner, but know that sometimes teen mom gets in the way of even the best of intentions.
this weekend we finally got around to crossing off one of the big milestones toward having the dream man cave. we painted! and it took a really long time!
here is a photo pre-painting / post-taping:
(notice all of my measuring tools on the footstool: level, old school ruler, tape measurer, pencil and painter's tape)
and some post-painting pictures:
sorry for the iphone quality...my battery on my other camera was dead and i didn't want to wait to take pictures...again, i'm lazy.
the process of taping and measuring and taping over again took the largest chunk of our time. we started working at about 11 am on saturday and ended for the day at 4:30 am on sunday. after six hours or so of sleep, we went to the big McD's and stopped at home depot to pick up some more paint. we painted on sunday from about noon until 4:30. we finished up with some white paint details after work on monday and finished up at about 11:30 pm.
since i enjoy doing arts & crafts type things, i had a great time. i was singing along to the music blaring out of my iphone dock and was humming along at 4 in the morning. andy was not as amused at the whole painting thing and was pretty much grumpy all day sunday, but appreciative of all of the help i was giving him.
now that the pain in our backs has started to die down and the blisters have popped, we are both thrilled with the way it came out. it definitely gives us a lot more confidence as home owners and aspiring diy-ers.
this project has definitely whet my appetite for painting and decorating.
i hope to start on the office/guest room this weekend or sooner, but know that sometimes teen mom gets in the way of even the best of intentions.
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