Since Bob doesn't read this blog, I can tell you what I did yesterday. I painted our downstairs powder room. As a surprise for Bob. (Our kitchen/dining room will also be a surprise. The contractors finished painting it after he left on Wednesday. Yay!)
Do any of you know how freaking hard it is to paint a small room? Omg. Silly me. I thought it would be easier. Smaller walls. Smaller amount of work. WRONG. It's incredibly difficult to paint behind a pedestal sink. And dumb ass me thought I needed to paint BEHIND the toilet tank as well, you know, since people look back there and everything. And paint it I did. Let's just hope no one ever has to see the back of the toilet tank. Because it's yellow. The same yellow as the walls. Homestead Resort Tea Room, in fact. I just rolled the roller right up the back. This project took approximately 4 hours. I also had grand plans to paint our master bathroom. But after the bitch
the downstairs one has been, uh, screw that. I'll either live with
builder beige in that room or hire what my contractors call "amigos" to
do the work for me.
In addition to painting, I hung our living room curtains on Wednesday. Great little things from Pottery Barn. I hung them. Alone. With no assistance. I had to use the following: a ladder, a drill, a stud finder, a laser leveler, a measuring tape, and a pencil. And the pencil was the only thing I was comfortable handling. Yet, I got those gd curtains and rods on the gd walls. It took approximately 3 hours.
Today, I *attempted* to hang metal shelves in our closet under the stairs, which also doubles as my "office." Yeah. Do you know how effing hard it is to hang those metal shelves? Alone. With studs everywhere, which is really handy when the stud finder doesn't find them. I've recruited help to come over tomorrow to see if WE can hang them. And not put more holes in the wall. Before Bob gets home tomorrow night. I spent approximately 1 hour today, and who knows how long it will take tomorrow. Stand by for pictures. Of either TONS of holes in the walls... or shelves.
