Monday, August 22, 2005

Some things done

Dez and I got to paint some of the rooms in our house. We got the family room and the kitchen done, as well as the powder room. We're glad that we got them done in three days. The tiring thing is the prep work; you have to tape off the base boards and the ceiling, as well as the cabinets, so that there will be minimal paint on them. We painted the kitchen a muted yellow and we faux finished two walls in the family room. For the powder room, we painted the upper half a cream-beige color called cracked wheat and the lower half a greenish hue. in the middle we placed a wall paper trim. It was very tiring and hard to do but we're happy that we got these done, as they make our house more of a home. Our next rooms for this coming weekend will be our dining room; the next weekend after that, probably Audric's room.

On a side note, I also fixed up the body of my beater car, a 92 subaru legacy. On the wheel wells it already had some rusted portions. I sprayed a rust converter on them (converts rust to a hard black material), sanded it, then puttied it with body filler (a.k.a masilya), sanded it again and sprayed primer and the auto paint. I'll need to borrow a power sander and fix it up again since it's not as smooth as I want it to be.