[speaker001:] I've done more painting than I want to talk about in my uh in my time I had a uh um three bedroom two and a half bath two story town house in Atlanta about ten years ago that I started I was just going to touch up paint in a couple of rooms before it was over I wound up painting the entire thing because the more I did it the worse it made everything else look
[speaker002:] the rest look
[speaker001:] so anyway but that included ceilings walls woodwork and everything and and you know I found out number one I can do it you know and I was I was really pleased with the results after it was finally finished but gosh it was a lot of work
[speaker002:] yeah but you feel good about it when you've done it yourself and you do save a lot of money
[speaker001:] yeah you really do yeah
[speaker002:] but it's a mess and it's hard to find the time
[speaker001:] uh-huh it is and well I was fortunate at the time I had a job that uh I uh
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] it was restrictly an eight hour job and uh so I but that really cut my social life out for gosh I don't know about a month and a half it seems like all I did I mean every spare minute I had a paint brush in my hand or a roller
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but like you say it it made a difference and it really increased the value of my property when I sold it I'm sure
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh yeah it does yeah I've painted inside I haven't painted outside and that's what I need done now
[speaker001:] yeah well my brother and sister-in-law in Austin uh are just finishing painting the entire outside of their house their house is almost all wood
[speaker002:] but um
[speaker001:] and what a lot of work that was and they had to scrape it and then
[speaker002:] yeah that's the work yeah that's it
[speaker001:] yeah and then putty and caulk and paint and I was up there about a month ago and what they had done looked marvelous but I mean the work was tremendous
[speaker002:] yeah yeah I don't think I'll attempt that myself I I know I won't yeah I'll hire somebody to do that but in fact I had a workman here for a leak that he had to fix and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] for ten dollars he was willing to paint my daughter's ceiling so I said go ahead you paint the ceiling and then I'll do the walls and that was that was nice
[speaker001:] listen you got a great bargain for ten for ten dollars let
[speaker002:] yeah for ten dollars he was saying he was chatting and we were having a good old time so he just said all right ten dollars I'll do the ceiling
[speaker001:] uh-huh I that's incredible I because painting the ceilings is absolutely the worst thing and and especially
[speaker002:] yeah it is
[speaker001:] especially so so many ceilings have this horrible you know this horrible texture that's just like you know popcorn blown
[speaker002:] right right well hers didn't it was just a smooth ceiling but
[speaker001:] yeah but but the place that I had in Atlanta that I wound up painting the ceilings everywhere it had a pretty pretty much a lot of texture on and it just was a nightmare to paint and I just you know I
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] just I I got it now I accumulated a lot of drop cloths and I had my painting gear that you know the same clothes I'd just throw them in the washer and you know wear them again and pretty soon they were just you know tie-dyed with paint
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but you know painting the ceiling if it's not smooth can really be a nightmare
[speaker002:] oh yeah I have that in my living room and dining room but we had a leak and the insurance company's gonna pay to do the whole area
[speaker001:] wow that's good
[speaker002:] so that's gonna be a good deal I won't have to worry about that
[speaker001:] yeah what was so funny with my my brother and sister-in-law in in Austin when they started uh talking about you know they knew they needed to paint their house and they got some estimates and they were just you know exorbitant so they started going around and and looking at paint colors and they must have looked at five hundred different paint chips and then they finally settled on white
[speaker002:] white oh no oh no
[speaker001:] uh but you know there again I you can't go wrong with your good basic white
[speaker002:] yeah I guess I I think I'll go with an off-white
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I'm changing everything so
[speaker001:] well that was the other thing too after I painted then I had to go in and uh change the window treatments because I you know got rid of some old uh uh wallpaper and you know so it went you know not only the paint but I wound up doing quite a few things so uh and changed out some lighting and and so forth and so on put some dimmers in
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah yeah it's all challenging that's for sure I've the whole year it's taking me to redecorate my bedroom and my daughter's bedroom
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but it's pretty I love it I've upholstered walls and made curtains and
[speaker001:] who did did you do the walls
[speaker002:] I did yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] did you really I'm impressed
[speaker002:] and it looks so nice because you just take sheets and then everything can match
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and it looks really pretty I love it it's just real feminine and just real pretty
[speaker001:] yeah I like wall upholstery but uh that's something I would never even dream of
[speaker002:] so oh it's easy oh if you can do all that you could do walls oh there's nothing to it
[speaker001:] really huh
[speaker002:] you can do a wall in half an hour
[speaker001:] you're kidding
[speaker002:] huh-uh staple gun is all it takes
[speaker001:] oh okay did you put anything behind the sheet
[speaker002:] I did I put the batting uh-huh and just staple it up there and staple your sheets up and then
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh and that's all it is to it
[speaker002:] yeah and then you can glue a little edge around if you want to like I took some eyelet lace and I just hot glued it around the edge
[speaker001:] yeah well
[speaker002:] but it's nothing and it's just beautiful I love it
[speaker001:] well I'll be well I'll have to keep that in mind I I just I don't
[speaker002:] after just do the rest and