Hey, painter man!
Blogging-wise, this week has been a bust. However, having chiseled a little more off No Logo, I am back on the couch in front of the ol’ boob tube watching the Stanford-Washington game. I have not had time to neither read nor blog this, or last, week because I have been staining a deck for my parents’ neighbors.
I have been working at their house off and on since last month. First, I painted their living room. Then I was a nice guy and painted their outside doors and frames and the trim missed by a crew of college painters they hired earlier this year. I thought I was done and wanted to be done — then they asked if I would stain their deck. Sure. Money, money, money. Plus, I had never worked with stain and was curious. However, I came to regret my decision when, during a preliminary walk-through, my neighbor uttered “oil-based.”
Ugh!
It was not so bad after the first day. I finished the floorboards yesterday so I have cleaned my hands of it (literally; I hate that stuff). I also primed and painted another doorframe today and I have decided that I am done painting for them for a while. In the meantime, though, I have agreed to paint someone else’s ceiling and may also venture to Chicagoland to paint the trim at my cousin’s house next month. Needless to say, painting has become a second job, one that has proven to be very profitable (albeit, detrimental to my reading and blogging).
Here’s the thing about painting: people want it done but do not want to do it. Or they want it done and do not know how to do it — properly. It is not as easy as those Lowe’s or Home Depot commercials make it seem. (Buy some paint, a tarp, and some blue tape and you can become a master painter! Not.) Painting takes time and patience, and there is just as much prep work involved as there is actual painting. Needless to say, people shill out the moo-nay to have someone else do it. That is where I come in, to capitalize.
Bwahahaha!
I have been working at their house off and on since last month. First, I painted their living room. Then I was a nice guy and painted their outside doors and frames and the trim missed by a crew of college painters they hired earlier this year. I thought I was done and wanted to be done — then they asked if I would stain their deck. Sure. Money, money, money. Plus, I had never worked with stain and was curious. However, I came to regret my decision when, during a preliminary walk-through, my neighbor uttered “oil-based.”
Ugh!
It was not so bad after the first day. I finished the floorboards yesterday so I have cleaned my hands of it (literally; I hate that stuff). I also primed and painted another doorframe today and I have decided that I am done painting for them for a while. In the meantime, though, I have agreed to paint someone else’s ceiling and may also venture to Chicagoland to paint the trim at my cousin’s house next month. Needless to say, painting has become a second job, one that has proven to be very profitable (albeit, detrimental to my reading and blogging).
Here’s the thing about painting: people want it done but do not want to do it. Or they want it done and do not know how to do it — properly. It is not as easy as those Lowe’s or Home Depot commercials make it seem. (Buy some paint, a tarp, and some blue tape and you can become a master painter! Not.) Painting takes time and patience, and there is just as much prep work involved as there is actual painting. Needless to say, people shill out the moo-nay to have someone else do it. That is where I come in, to capitalize.
Bwahahaha!
