Monday, May 01, 2006
Painting Boy
I've been home since Friday night but Adrian is still in DC, sleeping on an air mattress in our empty condo. He's safe, though; his mom invited herself over the first night to perform various Lao Buddhist rituals to bless the house. Then Adrian had to get up at 6 to drive her to work. Obviously, if he had to get up at 6am, there must still be some bad karma in the place.
We picked out colors while I was there and he's been applying them since I left. The primer went on first (a couple coats, in some cases) and he's been up late most nights doing it. His brother came over today to help which moved things along a bit. There will still be some left to do when we get there, but not nearly as much as we did when we moved here to Colorado, when the whole house got a paint job.
Speaking of Colorado our home inspection was last week and we had only a couple minor things to fix (I assume the gas leak outside by the gas meter is considered "minor"). Total cost: no more than a couple hundred dollars. I'd had pessimistic visions of thousands of dollars of work needing to be done to fix hidden defects we had no idea existed. However, we must have both done something nice in a past life to score points for this one because now we have more money for furniture. Oh, and for savings, too of course.
We picked out colors while I was there and he's been applying them since I left. The primer went on first (a couple coats, in some cases) and he's been up late most nights doing it. His brother came over today to help which moved things along a bit. There will still be some left to do when we get there, but not nearly as much as we did when we moved here to Colorado, when the whole house got a paint job.
Speaking of Colorado our home inspection was last week and we had only a couple minor things to fix (I assume the gas leak outside by the gas meter is considered "minor"). Total cost: no more than a couple hundred dollars. I'd had pessimistic visions of thousands of dollars of work needing to be done to fix hidden defects we had no idea existed. However, we must have both done something nice in a past life to score points for this one because now we have more money for furniture. Oh, and for savings, too of course.
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I liked both West Elm and Bo Concept's sites and inventory. However; the nice thing about IKEA is that you can get the look of those places for probably a fraction of the cost. II've never been to those other stores, and I didn't check the pricing, so I could be babbling out of my ass.)
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