The Basement

The basement has been our never-ending project. We have been working on it for over a year. Yesterday and today we finally painted. My dad came up to help us because we were going to use his paint sprayer.

My dad also made us a mantle for our fireplace for Christmas. Yesterday we spent half the day putting it together and staining it. The we put the primer on the wall. It took us about 5 hours to get the first coat of paint on the wall with a sprayer. We spend the first hour just trying to get the sprayer primed. It took Dad, Cody and I all doing something to get it going, but we finally got it going. However, it still wasn't working very well so it took us a long time.

Since we still had two coats to put on the walls and the trim to paint we decided to bite the bullet and rent a sprayer. Dad and I got up early this morning and went and rented the sprayer. What took us 4 hours to do yesterday took us 1 hour to do today. By 4:30 p.m. we had 2 coats of paint on the walls and the trim and doors painted. That includes 4+ hours of drying time.

We are so glad to have the paint on the walls. We are especially glad to have my dad come help us! Monday Cody's parents are coming to help with more things. This project might get finished one of these months.