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I recently received an email from Costco hawking a product called “COOLWALL.” It’s an exterior paint that the manufacturer promises will keep your home cooler and never requires reapplication.As removing the aluminum siding will be our big proj [Read More]

With the completion of a major overhaul to the house, the neglected garage has just served as a hideous reminder of what used to be.  After spending May through August working on the bungalow’s exterior, I finally turned my attention to the g [Read More]

All the stonework has now at least one coat of paint on. The top row of stonework is halfway through to getting its second coat and have used up about 12 litres of paint. A lot of time has been spent cleaning up the paint on the lower level, a power [Read More]

The rear side back door and window have been finished. The other windows at the rear side,first floor, need to be started. First was to take out the lower section of the window to work out how to paint it from the inside. Six screws were taken out a [Read More]

The scaffolding is going to be erected in two weeks time. Two levels, one at the first floor windows the other about 4 foot below the gutter. It will have to be about 50ft wide by 30 ft high. The scaffolder said that we could have it as long as we li [Read More]

So, all the painting finished at ground level…but no! The rear side to the house and stables still need to be done. The side has three windows the same size as the front bedrooms but one on each floor, ground, first and second. There are two other [Read More]

The stonework around the garage(coach house) door and the side entrance has been done. This stonework actually continues inside the doors and reaches to ground level. Some further finishing work has also been done on the front door, so, now it is fin [Read More]

I think we're getting somewhere :) March 20, 2009 August 6, 2009We were able to get the flag up right on the 4th of July. It had been my goal to get it up by then (we had it by the front door of our previous house), and we made it! Sam made the mou [Read More]

I thought this was momentous.I've been working on painting our exterior shutters little by little over the last several weeks. There were ten total to paint, two coats each. We're finishing up the second coat on the last four shutters tonight! :) Hop [Read More]

This wasn’t a planned shot…it just struck me as funny when I opened up the fridge. Mixing work and leisure [Read More]

The sprayer came out today for the foundation and the porch ceiling.  The foundation needed to be sprayed, since most of it is an incredibly rough texture that couldn’t possibly be brushed or rolled, and the porch ceiling would have been too m [Read More]

I cannot believe how far the paint goes when you’re brushing.  We have used only 2 1/2 gallons to finish nearly 3 sides of our house.  Tomorrow I am going to spray the funky textured foundation, so that will probably eat through a lot more pa [Read More]

No, sorry, there were no exciting ladder incidents today, but I couldn’t think of another catchy title with the word brush.  Instead, you get more pictures of paint.  Working with a brush is definitely slow, but I’ve actually been enjoy [Read More]

I know our loyal readers are eagerly awaiting our next post, so I wanted to share a few projects that we have going on. First up is the veggie garden. It has grown quite a lot with all of the rain. (Scroll down the page to see the photo when we pl [Read More]

We've been staying busy while Greg is out of town. Ian and Shepard are almost finished painting the outside, Jay Brown is making his way throughout the inside with his brush and my family came down for an entire week to help out with it all. Lots and [Read More]

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When I first started painting the stonework – back door surround and two window sills it started to rain. We seem to be having a continual cycle of sun and rain often 5 or 6 times a day. At last have finished all the stonework, it looks much better [Read More]

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Hooray! The painting is complete on the north side of the house as well as the garage (which I did) so we can get our whopping $300 back from escrow. Of course, this doesn't nearly cover what we paid the painters but it will be nice to have all the F [Read More]

It has FINALLY stopped raining so we can get our house painted - at least the one side. They primed about a third of it today and it's starting to look less like a crack house and more like a nice house. Progress! [Read More]