Painting the house

Yes, in a brave attempt to save the cost of renovations, we spent over $100 on paint, brushes, paint trays etc... (hmm, wished they had sold the paper hats for painting houses... maybe even the "magic" way to fold papers to get the hats would have helped!)

the setup:


We started late on wednesday afternoon, after a big lunch, we quickly laid the floor with newspapers, plastic sheets etc and Ad started with the celling. (The most challenging part of the house.... man, I tell you, its super neck breaking!)



Unfortunately, we had to stop painting by evening to attend a dinner "date" which was pre-arranged months ago... Sad to leave the "unfinished" job, in the short 4hrs, we have painted the living room twice and the kitchen once. Not too bad for a start I guess.



We've got two extra hands that night. YEAH! Thanks the the great support of our MJ kakis, they got roped in to help us with the painting, Jas proclaim her experience painting skills at the 5yr painting of her own room. Even offered the "tools" for the painting ha ha ha... sadly, she could not recall how to fold us that "painter's hat" which we all bad needed. So Cav have to make do with his make-shift "shirt" by tearing a hole in the papers and putting his head through it hee.... He's "fashionable" wear often suffered from sweat-drenching and hence require a make-over or should it be change-over? hee...

We started work at 10pm that night and we realised that the two bedrooms had walls full of DUST! yes, again we were bugged by dust! So under Jas's supervision, we all took rugs and went on all fours to clean the walls, celling from the dust that had accumulated due to the years of neglect behind wardrobes, tables etc. It was a pretty yucky sight I tell you. Within a few short mins, we all felt like we are getting the "workout" that anyone need for 1yr. Hee.... can excuse from exercise for a while liao! *yipee*

At 3am, we surrended to the exhaustion and decided to take the night off. We took the opportunity to look for supper as we sent the duo home and guess what? The hunt for supper took us from macpherson to thomson to jln kayu. My goodness, if jln kayu's prata was not available, you might see 4 adults squating outside some HDB blocks ordering Macs! ha ha ha... We almost made it to the 5am breakfast by the time we found our prata. So being a long night, we settled the makan and sent everyone home, we quickly settled into bed.... *snooze*

So thursday, after a short recovery from our first day at painting, we started to touch up the kitchen, living and give the bedrooms another coat of paint.... woah... after 50man-hours. The house is finally painted. ;)

*happy*

thank you Cav & Jas for your hard work. You guys did a great job! We'll always remember YOU (for future paint jobs! ha ha ha....)