I spent almost the whole day painting. Since we got the house, the garage has been in extreme need of paint. The last people started different colors here and there and then didn’t finish. Then we replaced the door with an ugly brown one from the house. And the paint was really badly peeling and they had caulked around the door and that was all pulling away. It looked really awful. So I painted the garage today and the transformation is amazing. It actually makes the house look better because the garage now matches the house, color-wise, and looks just so cute. You can’t even tell that the siding is really getting old and a bit rotten here and there.

I guess, at this point, I should admit that I didn’t paint the whole garage. I actually just painted the front and the side you can see from the house, but not the whole side, because the bushes hide part of it. The back is pretty much covered by the wood pile right now. And we don’t care about the side to the neighbor’s on the east, because he’s hardly ever there and his place is a wreck. We’ll get to it later this fall. It was the front, the garage door and the part around the other door that were bothering us, and that is all finished except one more coat of white to do on the door that was brown.

I also finished the porch area where I painted the ceiling joists white (2 coats of Kilz and a coat of semi-gloss), the trim and the support posts. It looks cute now, but is still too small to block much sun. But it is out of the rain and has a concrete floor, so is a nice solid place to put chairs and sit.

Dad worked all day on the laundry room and that is pretty much all sheetrocked and he has the light wired in – just needs a switch. So, we’ll be moving on to the living room tomorrow.