Rural Gardening: Building a Home part2, 3 by CricketsGarden

CricketsGarden wrote:
Brace yourself= My house looks like a Gaint Easter Egg

The deck is so ugly right now. It needs to be cleaned, repaired, more construciton, and lattice will be put back on the deck rails and all will be painted. Meanwhile, we have to deal with its ugly sight while we paint the house, construct the soffit (that is the boarding that goes under the overhang) and complete all the trim work. All one step at a time.

We started painting the main color on the house. The color does not match the color on the color deck. But it only has one coat . I say we but my husband painted the whole front side of the house and one end yesterday while I worked in the greenhouse. I like painting but I just didn't have time to help yesterday. A storm came through and blew over some tomato plants and I had to get those tied up (150 vines) Anyway, the house was and will only be painted with a brush. We have a paint sprayer and rollers but I don't like the texture that the roller nap leaves behind and paint sprayers are messy and more time consuming than you realize. You think by using a paint sprayer that you are going to save a lot of time painting something but you don't after you add up the prep time of getting the sprayer ready and protecting the windows and everything that can get over spray on it and the cleaning up time. It took hubby 2 hours to paint the front side of the house and 2 hours to paint one end of the house with a paint brush. And it only took One gallon of paint to paint all of that. Paint sprayers and rolling system takes almost twice the paint. Example....We have a couple of rental mobile homes and it takes a whole 5 gallon bucket to spray paint one mobile home with one coat of paint but when I painted my mobile home (the one that burned down) It only took 5 gallons to paint it twice with a brush..

This paint color is strange stuff. It is slightly lighter than the color deck and sometimes it looks blue and sometimes it looks green depending on the color of the sky and how the sun is shining. The closer you are to the house the more blue it looks but if you are far away from the house it looks more green.