Big ass room done.
posted by Carina @ 7:13 PM
Saturday, March 24, 2007
I've been a painting contractor since 1979, with forays into other ventures along the way. I have painted shopping malls, Victorian mansions, new builds, striped parking lots, thousands of homes and businesses, freeway retaining walls and underpasses...pretty much anything that stands still long enough to be painted. I've run crews and been a foreman (forewoman, I guess) and taught many people the craft.
About Me
- Name: Carina
- Location: United States
Dogmuse is recently reincarnated. In my 16 month absence, it continued to get a fair bit of traffic, according to sitemeter. Oh dear, another abandoned blog? Nope. I am 50 and live in Michigan with two Rottweilers, a Nottweiler and three accidental cats. I do agility and paint houses and write sometimes. My favourite icecream flavor is peanut butter. I can probably beat your ass at Scrabble. How's that for succinct?
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8 Comments:
Hon, it doesn't matter who said a quote, or who it is attributed to, most quotes are thousands of years old and only attributed to current folks.
If it fits, wear it.
Oh, nice work, and fast also, I've worked alone for the last nine years, it would have taken me weeks to do that.
But I've gotten lazy and only work about four hours a day. It took me a month to paint the exterior of the last house I did. LOL
BBC - I could have done this alone (did walls only) in four days if all I was doing was regular paint....but I did this with Lisa my faux painter expert friend, it's a textured woolly double roller glaze finish and took six people working on & off to finish.
Still I thought that was pretty darn fast, even so!
Hey, do you think I could do a faux if I split the work with a professional painter to do the high part of the walls and I do the lower?? I don't know how to do a faux, but I am sure I can learn.
That is absolutely beautiful!! I would love to learn how to do faux finishes. Maybe that's a winter class I can take next year. Or, I can save my money and hire you. . . LOL!!
You do wonderful work my friend!!
BTW: Babs is OK!!
That is a large house, isn't it? You do great work. How is Pedro?
Tabor, I'm sure you can. The only hard part would be getting the techniques to mesh, which can be a bit tricky when there's two people working...depends on the technique I guess. This was done using double woolly rollers, two colors with glaze added.
Lauren, come work with us for a week. :D (Actually some paint stores, home despot etc, do free classes.)
Glad to hear Babs is good.
TechnoB - yah that was a very large McMansion!
Pedro is good, enjoying the warmer weather. He rides inside the truck now, instead of the bumper. I've become attached to the little fella.
Thanks for sharing home improvement idea's with home improvement post with us.
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