Tuesday May 3, 2011

Painting the Garage

Wednesday, April 27 to Saturday, April 30

 

One of Cerwin’s first jobs was to remove this shelf and fill in areas where something – or someone – made a dent or hole in the wall.

We have been talking about painting the garage walls and floor for the past few years – and we finally did it.

 

 

We removed the old lights before painting the ceiling.

 

 

The trap door with a rope (foreground) is our entrance to the attic.

 

 

We changed the ceiling and wall color from light blue to ivory.

 

 

 

 

I did the trimming and painted areas where the roller did not fit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Saturday morning we were ready to paint the floor.

 

 

Painting the floor was long overdue.

 

 

Look at the difference. Everything looks so clean.

 

 

We also installed new light fixtures.

 

 

My favorite new thing is that Cerwin used paneling to make doors for what was open shelves where he stores all kind of things – electric cords, jumper cables, things for cleaning and waxing our cars, plus buckets. It is also where we keep quoits, horseshoes, and bocce for the pavilion area. (You can see a bit of it on the second photo – on the right.)

When we get everything back where it belongs, I want to clean the carpet in the back room – hopefully this week.