Painting Begins!!!!

Can you believe it? I'm not sure I can.

8:00am this morning three painters showed up at our house with our contractor, of course. The painters went right to work covering our beautiful new flooring with resin paper and blue tape. They covered the banisters and walls, they were not going to paint (that had pictures still hung on them) with plastic. The stairs and cat walk were covered with drop cloths. Furniture (the little we have actually in the house) was covered with plastic.

By the time I got back from bringing the girls to school the painters had started cutting in the high walls and ceiling. Yes, ceiling! They painted the ceiling! That is huge. We can paint most of the other walls, even the high ones, but the ceiling. That is a different story in our house.

The painters got a lot done today. The living room and ceiling mostly. They packed up at about 4:00pm and will return tomorrow at 8:00am to finish. Tomorrow the family room and baseboard (entire first floor) will get painted. That will be it for the painters. The rest will be up to us.

I would like to finish painting a few walls before putting furniture back into the house, but after two and a half months, I really need my house back. I want furniture back in my house. A place to sit with my beloved and girls. I would like to sit at our dinning room table in the dinning room for meals. I want to start decorating for Christmas! We can paint the rest of the walls after Christmas. I think Friday we will start moving furniture back into our house. I'll see what C thinks. I don't think we'll be able to do it any sooner, with Thanksgiving on Thursday.

It will be easy to paint a few of the walls downstairs (dinning room wall and family room TV wall) after Christmas. We won't need to move too many things out of the way and they are normal walls. The tall walls that aren't getting painted now will need to wait until Spring or Summer to get painted. It will work out.

I'll take some pictures of our beautiful painted walls tomorrow and get them posted, hopefully tomorrow night. I've got to find time (and space in my kitchen) to make pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. Good thing Thanksgiving dinner is not at my house.