text: Phew. It was a long hard weekend, but it's finished. the house is painted and it looks great. We primed (with rollers, because our free sprayer leaked) on Saturday, then got wise and rented a power sprayer and finished painting on Sunday. Mom came over and cooked cheeseburgers on the grill for my rag-tag painting crew ( a resigned hubby who hates painting, my sister, and my in-laws. I worked the sprayer.)
  With tool rentals and paint, it still cost us only about $500 to paint the house, about $2,000 less than our cheapest professional bid.
  I figure I'll use that $2,000 to build a beautiful patio next year.
  Doing it yourself is so much more satisfying than paying a pro. I love my house even more after every project I do.
  Hard work truly does pay off
  October 13th, 2008 at 09:01 pm