naladahc | tripping along the golden path

The ceiling of the Jay Kulpa Suite™ of the House of Love™ III has its first coat of paint on it.

The walls have some additional primer as well.

I'm thinking that I'm going to buy a better ceiling paint tomorrow for the 2nd coat.

One thing that I can say is that I'm not getting freaked out about how good or bad I'm doing painting. I've accepted the fact that the walls and ceilings of many rooms of this 90+ year old house are plaster and very old and have been painted and repaired many times.

After all the patching and sanding I did this summer it really burnt me when I saw the living room had all cracked again in exactly the places that were cracked before. There's no point in getting worked up about it really.

The only way that this would not happen would be for all the plaster to be ripped down and the walls and ceilings totally be redone. That will not be done by me here in this residence at any time in the future.

So. Clean coat of paint. Hope the cracks don't get worse. And that's that.

I'm guessing that the 2nd floor ceiling cracks are worse because I am in the attic a lot. In fact, many of the ceiling cracks in the Jay Kulpa Suite™ are directly under where my computer and chair are so no doubt my rolling above has caused or worsened existing things.

I will say that the sanding on the walls seems to have improved them. I went over parts of them with my hand and the primer smoothed out a lot of the shitty lesbian-painted crap. Shame on those ladies in comfortable shoes who did such a shitty job in this room. But all their disintegrating roller bits are gone and such.

I feel confident that once the 2 or 3 coats of wall paint go up, the 2 coats of semi-gloss trim, and the ceiling touch-up is done the room will at least look nice. The carpet is shitty and we'll probably clean it good but other than that it has to stay.

So. I'll work again tomorrow but I really need Saturday and Sunday day light to work in there. Daylight Savings Time's disappearance has made a big difference in a room without a ceiling light. I needs me all the daylight I can muster.