We’re about through painting here. I forgot how much I dislike painting, especially the tedious detail stuff. I don’t mind just rolling a large surface with paint – it’s all the nooks and crannies, crevices, corners, moldings and stuff I don’t particularly like… Well – on second thought, I just don’t like any of it really! The prep work, the actual painting, the clean-up, ugh.
Some of you sweet people left comments and were under the impression that we were undertaking a large scale outdoor painting project. Not so. We have a brick house, and have some external surfaces that did need painting every year or two. Tim was always responsible for that, so about 3 or 4 years ago, he decided we needed to put vinyl siding on our house. Which alleviates almost all of the painting (for him!). We have vinyl everywhere except some trim and the outside doors. So, that’s what we were painting.
Our exterior doors are French paned doors – 15 lovely squares of glass with small panes in between. Well, it’s one large sheet of glass, but you get the idea. Lots of detail and small spots to paint. We had all white doors, trim and “sidelights” as I call them. Now, the door is a dark brown and the trim is still white. I’ll post photos later today or tomorrow over at my Project365 blog. UPDATE , they are up now (here and here). 😛
Here’s the color we painted the doors – a dark brown. It looks more chocolate in this photo, but you know how paint is – it gets darker when it dries. I told Tim when we opened the can – now I know why I picked this color – it looks like liquid chocolate! Being the chocoholic that I am, that must be why I went for this color! It looks good enough to eat, hehehe! Oh, and it’s called “Boston Legacy” and we got it at Lowe’s.
I’m tired of painting and ready to do something else! 🙂
The actual painting part isn’t that bad. What I can’t stand is the prep work: the taping, the drop cloths, etc. Ugh!
It looks like chocolate cake batter!! MMMm, just give me a big spoon! 😉
I checked the finished pictures – it looks great. Such a pretty rich brown.
Oh, yum, I reach in and dip my finger in and eat some. It looks like Milky Way chocolate.
Did you do a QOTD one time on how people store fruit and if they use a banana hanger? I thought I read it here, but can’t find it in your posts. I just threw away some more black bananas. I can only freeze so many!
It looks good! Did you paint the back door the brown color too? And what about the garage door in the laundry room, did Tim paint it?
maybe you should paint with chocolate, might be more fun 🙂
There is quite a difference between can and finished product isn’t there? It looks lovely!
I hate all the finite work with painting. But I’ve done it both with and without taping, and taping is so much easier!
Oooh, love the paint color and name! Right up my alley!
Glad you don’t have an entire house to paint but the small details can be worse!
I love the color. I want to incorporate brown into one of our rooms inside the house, not sure which one. I hate painting too, though. We have a lot of it ahead of us here.
It looks like a big bucket of chocolate milkshake!
Yummy! Liquid chocolate! Love the color!
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