Home Reno - Part 2

Let's see.

When we last left off,

the floors were done and I 

was the proud wearer of clean underwear.

What I didn't tell you was

that when the floors were going in

I started noticing how awful my baseboards were.

They were 2 1/2 inch baseboards

painted the same color as the walls

and also textured, just like the walls.

No Bueno.

So, to follow my theme for the month,

I decided on a whim

to rip them out.

And then I just did it.

Brian was at work at this time also.

Funny how that happens.

I told him that if I couldn't have new baseboards

that I didn't want any baseboards at all.

I would love to tell you that

I am really not as horrible as I'm making myself

out to be but....well, you know.

I was on a roll.

A high, I tell you, a home reno high!!

Baseboards were my crack.

So, Brian drove to Mesa to pick up my baseboards

that I had only seen online.

I was hoping I would like them.

And I did.

The only thing is, the baseboards

only came in 16 feet lengths.

Sixteen feet is really long.

Go out and measure your car and then come back

and finish reading this.

So Brian had to take his tractor trailer to pick up

three bundles of these.

1)  You are seeing the back sides,

my baseboards are not this ugly.

2) I chose 4 1/4 inch Spanish molding

in primed MDF.

3)  I should have mentioned that all pics have

been taken with my iphone and have  not

been edited.

Ain't nobody got time for dat.

When all the flooring was finished,

our friend, John, who is a wonderful carpenter,

came in and installed out baseboards.

Love them!

I don't have any pictures of them installed

for you to see, you will be able to see them

in the "after pictures" in Part 72 or Part 87

(depending on if I start a new project).

Side note: 

We have a pocket door for our office.

We very rarely use it.

I tried to close it the other day and it wouldn't close.

I figured it had just fallen off the tracks.

It wouldn't budge.

It was then that I realized that I never told John 

about the pocket door, and when he 

nailed in the baseboards,

the nails shot through walls into our door.

So that's fun. 

Now, here's where things get ugly.

Paint.

PAINT!!!

So, yeah, I then decided that now would also be a great time to paint.

I love the paint color in my bedroom

and decided to go with it.

As you know from an earlier post, it didn't go well.

The color was horrible.

I won't go into it.

I'm still a little sensitive about the whole thing.

I decided to hire painters

because it's only money, right?

The only thing I had to do was choose a paint color.

I would rather sit on my dust covered sheets

in my dirty underwear eating Whoppers for another week 

than ever have to choose paint colors again.

This was the moment during the renovation

 that I lost it.

Everyone has their breaking point.

This was mine.

I even cried once.

I never told anyone that.

Paint does that to me.

Whomever says that paint is the 

easiest way to change the look and feel of a room

is a bad ass liar!

If baseboards are my crack,

then paint is my Methadone.

Painting sucks.

Hiring painters to paint entire rooms

of your house only to hate the color would suck more.

I had a week to pick a color since

the painters wouldn't be able to come in 

until a week after the baseboards.

I spent every day of that week

driving to various paint stores to get 

samples and slap them on the walls.

I had huge blocks of paint on every single wall

and didn't like any of them.

One would look great during the day

and then awful at night.

One would look lovely on one wall,

while looking like mud on another.

I couldn't choose a color.

I couldn't choose a finish.

I couldn't choose a brand.

I lost sleep over it.

A friend told me, "It's only paint!"

I killed her and buried her in my garden.

I finally found it.

The right color, in the right finish,

from the right brand.

I'm almost embarrassed to tell you this.

This color has gotten a bad wrap.

I chose Sherwinn Williams Navajo White 

in flat but the paint itself was Dunn Edwards.

I loved the color that Sherwinn Williams had

but didn't like the finish.

Dunn Edwards had a nice flat finish 

with good coverage.

It's a beautiful creamy light yellow.

I chose White Fever for the ceilings (flat)

and baseboards (semigloss).

We were now on month two of having strange men

in our home on a daily basis.

I wanted everyone to go away. 

I wanted to swim naked.

I wanted to pee with the door open again.

Let's leave it at that.

 I'll be back soon with Part 3.

xxx-ooo

Holly