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Our staycation was interrupted by a few “around the house projects”. We cleaned the gutters, painted one more wall a brilliant yellow and the big project ended up being the removal of carpet from the hallway upstairs.
The gutters were a dangerous but relatively quick job. You can see why we needed to clean them here:
As for painting, this was the fun part of our interrupted staycation and was done in between the much more difficult task of removing a small piece of carpet from our upstairs hallway so I am starting with this first. The last wall left to paint bright yellow runs from our dining area to the stairs by the kitchen (this looks like there is a corner on the wall, but is just because there are two photos from different angles):
As you can see by the bright yellow contrast on the upper right corner, the old light yellow was a bland, boring, pale comparison to what it would become.
Even though we had been to Hope Depot twice already within the last 24 hours, we had neglected to check our paint supply and ended up going to there for a third time to get more paint. Our errand gave us the excuse to stop at the studio and pick up another ladder which turned out to be very helpful:
Of course Shadow wants to help:
The hard part about this area was the steps. We have this folding ladder that can turn into all sort of shapes: regular ladder, scaffolding, or even scarey place to stand while painting:
Scary double ladders:
End result after one coat of paint:
We also spent a lot of time repairing the floor in the hallway upstairs. I’ll save that for the next entry.