The First Time

Congratulations!! I have never painted my house. Expect for painting a few boxes here and there I have never painted like that. It sounds so good! So now you are near expert. It certainly gives a feeling of satisfaction on accomplishing something you are doing for the first time. How I wish to send you a bandana!! BTW, what's TSP?

I bought our new house two years ago but it has no paint yet. I decided to paint it myself, Now I am proud that through my hardwork, back pains and profuse sweating I can boast to my visitors that I painted our entire house and that was my first time to do it.

Our first timer painting was a house we rented and it just needed painting so badly that we bought the paint and did it ourselves, and I sewed pretty curtains for the kitchen too. Then a few weks later our landlady stopped in as she was in the neighborhood to see if we wanted to save a stamp by giving her the rent instead of mailing it. We said ok and I while I went to get the money, she looked around and I will NEVER forget what she said: "I forgot how nice this place looked, I will have to raise your rent!" So we bought a house the next day and never gave her any more rent. And hubby got mad and cut the curtains into shreds so keep her from getting to enjoy them, and I was so mad because if he had asked me I would have told him I could have cut them down to use in the house we bought. But he said we would have store-bought curtains. He didn't realize stores don't make them as nice as mine were, but since we all grew up with hand me downs and home made stuff, "store-bought" seemed better to him. The place we are at now is the first place we ever bought that was all freshly painted when we moved. I love it! We got the house cheap because the previous owners had painted all the rooms with hideous colors and it took 3 coats to cover them, so we painted again....and again...and again. A few years later things got better for us and we could afford to move to a nicer neighborhood, so this time we painted all over again to get a better price and that was the first time I painted the outside of a house. You will never guess what we did next, lol, or will you?

PS: I remember once when I was painting my kitchen, hehehe. My boyfriend was not in on the project, he would be sitting at his desk trying to work. I loved to drive him to distraction by painting in a mini skirt... bending over to dip my brush in the paint with my back to him. I invariably got put on the kitchen table... his work temporarily forgotten.

em, your description in the first paragraph is quite interesting. at the very beginning, i almost mistake your idea. but as to paint, i know about nothing. so i can share nothing. huh~~~

i only have painted small things like projects or a small portion of a wall or a door coz i cant take the smell of paints since i have an asthma, it is very bad for me to paint for a longer period of time...

Oh tell me about it! And painting the ceiling is the absolute WORST! We end up discovering pain in muscles that we didn't even know we had! lol. I have never been a big fan of painting to be honest and although I have done it in the past I would much prefer to limit myself to a feature wall or something basic rather than go all out and paint an entire room. I just don't have the patience for one and my ability to maintain lines arounbd cornices etc is seriously lacking! If I had it my way I would explode a big can of paint in the middle of a room like in that Mr Bean episode (if you ever saw it). Quick, easy and very manly I reckon!

|Good for you that you finally experience something that we see quite outside but we didn't have the experience of doing it ourselves. The aches and pain in your body id just but a natural reaction for being exposed in a new physical activity you're not used to have.

Oh wow, I totally forgot BF was wanting to buy a house! How exciting!! I LOVE moving into a new house!! And I am very much into color so I almost always paint. I have been painting for so long I do not even remember my first time! I have done it professionally, but I really prefer doing it just for my self. Hahaha, that is really funny about wanting to put on a bandanna and wear 'paint-smeared' clothing! I want to have some 'painters whites' - a pair of white pants and a white shirt, but I doubt that mine will look like my friends who used to wear them. I don't know how he kept them so paint free, just an artistic smudge here and there... when I paint I end up covered in it! And people sure like to say "did you get any paint on the wall?" when they see me like that. That can be a little annoying. When I paint I switch hands constantly. I had to paint two ceilings here by hand and not with a roller because they were textured... that was pretty rough! I could only do a small section at a time without giving myself days of pain. And any old rag will do to tie around your hair, well, a clean one is preferable, hehehe.

I wondered what you were on about, at first I thought you were sunburned or something! It is exhausting painting, but I agree that it is relaxing and so satisfying when it is done. I think it is always amazing how a lick of paint can make a whole room look so different and so new. I have been able to paint for years but my first time was horrible, I was also trying my hand at wallpapering too and I remember I put my first piece on the wall and was so proud of myself, I started on the second piece and was just about to put it up when the first piece fell down on my head. I got so cross in the end that I just ripped the whole lot up! I swore after that day that I would never paper anything in my house again and so far I have stuck to it.

Hello SaintAnne! Job well-done on your PAINTING "session". I know it's never an easy job to do it but the thought of doing it for love really is fulfilling. I tried helping out my hubby before painting our house but I quitted because the smell of pain triggered my migraine..

Hi anne! Congratulations on your first painting experience! Isn't it fun! I love to paint! I have some paint projects that I will be starting too! We have to repaint the bedroom because it was so stained from not being painted for so many years that the one coat the painters did wasn't enough. I will be re-painting some furniture that I have. I have already re-stained 2 bookcases and stained a tablelamp brown. I will start re-painting a small cabinet, night table, and a wicker hamper that I will paint white on Saturday. Then I have to re-paint a rocker, chair and tv stand blue. I have another rocker to stain brown. I also have shelves to paint blue. I have to do all of this before I can put the apartment together and I'm running out of time. I promised bf it will be finished before his birthday and Thanksgiving which is November 24th. So I need to get a move on!

I don't remember ever painting, unless I helped to do it as a little kid. As an adult, I've lived in rentals, so there was no painting to be done in those (although, they could have used it!).

Its great seeing you making your own way of doing the new things and learning more out of it..congrats i am poor in making a strectch work at home so i always call for a labour but really it makes sense of doing some by our own. let me try something what i can do

Besides getting the pain and all, I am sure you enjoyed your first experience painting. Yes it is tedious work because many things have to be done before we can get a smooth finished painted wall. But after that you can smile when you look back at your own work. You can proudly say this is the result of your hard work. At that time all your shoulder burning, arms burning, neck's stiff would be worthwhile. I have experienced painting a wall and it is very tiring. But I didn't do it alone because I was just helping my husband at that time. He was helping a friend of him paint his new house, so I just came along to accompany him. Then I ended up helping him painting. It was such a memorable sweet event.

Im so glad that you dream finally came true. I only wish I shared the same ambition, then maybe that ugly blue wall in our bedroom would be taken care of. Oh well... I think its always wonderful to learn a new skill. Sorry you had to suffer physically. I hope you get feeling better soon.