Is it worth the time, is it worth the price ...

Whew, I got the 2nd coat of paint done in the bedroom. It makes for a long day, when painting more or less takes all day.I did take a little nap during the "paint drying" phase.

Deep thought: Starting a 2nd coat is like knitting the 2nd sock. It needs to be done, but it's much less exciting, starting over for the 2nd round.

Painting is kind of a mixed bag for me. I don't mind painting, but it is a lot of effort. I find myself trapped between really wanting it done WELL and not having the time and patience to be as careful as I guess I should be. Especially when working in an almost 70 year old room that's been badly done before. It's hard to be meticulous about not having drips when you're painting over 68 years of other people's drips, blurbs, and bad plaster patches.

I do like the thrill of the change, as well as the money saving and proud feeling of having done it myself.

But sometimes when I look at the places I blorped an uneven edge along the ceiling, after trying hard to be careful, much less when I'm nursing an aching back and have worked hard all day with furniture still to haul back in, I can certainly see the appeal of hiring the job out.

So I'm glad I'm doing the bedroom, I think it will be a very nice change. Will it inspire me to ditch the ugly pink hallway with yellow feathered glaze? Or tackle scraping down the obnoxious wall borders and wall paper in other parts of the house? You'll have to wait and see.

Coming up tomorrow (or Friday) ... finishing the room by painting the trim.

THEN you can see pix.