source for the above image
If only my studio ceiling were that easy
This was first
"Board and Batten" is where thin strips of wood molding—or “battens”—are placed over the seams of panel boards. The result is an aesthetic that is both rustic and chic, and a PAIN IN THE ASS to cut in"
So I started out finally at 1:43 pm, with ladder, small brush and 4 inch roller cutting in all those DAMNED edges.
By the time I reached that corner by the door, I was sick up and fed with cutting in.
I got the big roller, put it on the handle of a broom with screw threads, promptly broke that, had to take time to get that plastic threads out of my roller frame handle, then went inside and got a proper wooden handle and started rolling out the big spaces.
I quit and washed up when I rolled out what I had in my pan, tomorrow I will start again.
I think I will roll with the big guy first, THEN, if I feel like it I may go back and try to neaten up all those damned bloody batten edges.
This IS just a first coat, possibly the only coat, but still it will certainly brighten up that room, so MAYBE I can stand to spend more time out there working.
So it went from this:
(Looking at the opposite wall)
To this:
All the defunct florescent light fixtures are down of course.
Still lots of work to be done, all by my lonesome.
"My day of painting"
by
Jerry E Smith
©09/13/2021
All images are original but for the one up top that is sourced.
