Our sense of the passing of time is completely warped by these last few weeks. The paint we thought would take three or four weeks has now been going on for almost three months. We're on Week #11 and there's now a little light at the end of the tunnel, but my goodness it's been a long tunnel. So much prepping, priming, touching up, and in all the rooms on almost all the surfaces. Now I see the process, I suppose it was naive to think it would only take three weeks. I thought that's what the painter told me, but I wonder if I dreamt that, or misheard. Or he was kidding? Anyway, 13 weeks seems much more realistic than 3.
Paint holds up a lot of things. They can't fit light fittings, or instal hardware like taps and towel bars, or put up wallpaper, or add cabinet doors till it's done. But now, room by room, as the paint gets finished up, those other things are getting done. And by contrast they seem to work at warp speed. In the last week our bedroom, the bathrooms and the laundry room have gone from looking like construction sites to looking almost finished.
While the lighting guys were in installing our cool library light we took advantage of the scaffolding to hang a piece of art. From this angle the house looks almost ready to move in.
But it's really not.
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