Paint the exterior of my house

I won’t complete the painting as soon as I thought but I’m making progress & enjoy listening to my music while I paint. 2 years ago

Making slow progress… but its progress!

Bought some second hand scaffolding to safely paint the top level.

The weathers been great for painting. 2 years ago

The weather is good enough to make some more progress. I undercoated some of the cottage style windows – tricky & time-consuming though. 2 years ago

We completed painting the lower level today. Just the top level & windows to paint now.

I have to work out how to wash & paint the top floor. Cherry picker? Scaffolding? Ladder? 3 years ago

My son & I made some more progress, preparing the house. Some weatherboards were pretty bad too. 4 years ago

We are sanding & preparing the house. This is actually quite theraputic with the sanding & painting.

My son is helping which makes it fun too. Last time he helped me paint the house was about 13 years ago (when he was 2) & he tried to fix the window with a hammer! 4 years ago

I’m totally not motivated to do this, but we have a public holiday on Wednesday (Waitangi Day) so I have some sandpaper, putty, builders bog & undercoat to fix up some rough areas. 4 years ago

We’ve worked on this a bit more but decided to table it and finish in the spring. This turned out to be so much bigger a job than I ever anticipated. And the main work is done. I’d really wanted to finish the trim before winter hit but just ran out of time and warmth…soooo in the spring, we will finish the trim, paint the front door, paint the porch floor, paint the contrasting edge at the top of each window, and paint the foundation blocks.

Despite the fact that it isn’t completely done, the house looks SO much better now than before I started. 4 years ago

Did some more of the trim this weekend, but still have a ways to go before it is all done… 4 years ago

The painting party was a great success! We got the remainder of the main color and some of the trim and accent colors done that day. Since then, have essentially finished the accent color, more of the trim, and started on the contrast trim at the top of the windows. Cannot wait to finish… 4 years ago

Did more last weekend, and trying to organize a painting party for this weekend to get a big chunk of it done. I SO can’t wait to have this behind me! 4 years ago

I am trying this as a challenge one more time, even though I haven’t met my own deadline twice. I need to keep the pressure on to get this finished! It is taking much longer and is harder than I ever would have anticipated…but I will keep at it until it is complete! 4 years ago

Made progress this weekend, but it is going much more slowly than I’d hoped… 4 years ago

Yay! I am so thankful for the help I received from my sweetheart and some friends so we could put the primer on yesterday. Now, for the colors. I can’t wait for this to be all done!! 4 years ago

I’ve been working at this just about every day. Not the most fun I’ve ever had. Not even close. Scraping is hard work… 4 years ago

Bought electric scraper and have been using that the last few days. I’m making progress, and Thank Goodness for the help of friends! This still feels like a never-ending project but at least the new tool is speeding it up a little. 4 years ago

scraped a little more today with the help of a friend. It was really hot, though, so I didn’t last too long… 4 years ago

Have had several sessions with a friend working on the scraping. It is going slowly but in the right direction. 4 years ago

We worked on it a second time, and the progress feels good. I know this is going to take a long time to complete, though! 4 years ago

process yesterday. Oh, is this going to be a big job…

I am so thankful for my friend who came over to help me get started! 4 years ago