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Any Professional Painters Here??

timrothtimroth Posts: 215
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Kudos to you!!

I just finished painting my dining room and painting sucks.

If you can do that for a living you have my respect.
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    timroth wrote:
    Kudos to you!!

    I just finished painting my dining room and painting sucks.

    If you can do that for a living you have my respect.
    Why, yes there are.
    :)
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • pjtradekingpjtradeking Posts: 4,045
    My Uncle has done it for 40 years, and I am not quite sure how the hell he has done. PAINTING SUX!!
    Never, ever, flipping forget
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i've always enjoyed painting....but the prep and post work can fuck off.....that sucks....
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    I am a painter on the side. Working on a collection that I am going to have a website for. All watercolors of urban architecture.

    and I just re-read the topic and realized we are talking about painting houses.. haha.. way to read the first go around. Yeah, I am not a house painter, but an artist. I did paint my loft though.. if that counts.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    timroth wrote:
    Kudos to you!!

    I just finished painting my dining room and painting sucks.

    If you can do that for a living you have my respect.


    Hi, you called ;)
    Painting can be fun, it's all about perspective.
    Call me next time you need some work doing, I'll do a special rate ;)
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    It's all in the paint. Never buy cheap paint....ever. Get a can of Benjamin Moore or better (use google) and decide for yourself how much better of job the $$ paint pulls off. It's well worth it imo...no question about it.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • ForestBrainForestBrain Posts: 460
    *jumps up and down with hand raised* Here!

    You can see what I do here:

    http://www.myspace.com/spilledpainting

    And yes, sometimes it sucks.
    When life gives you lemons, throw them at somebody.
  • timrothtimroth Posts: 215
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    It's all in the paint. Never buy cheap paint....ever. Get a can of Benjamin Moore or better (use google) and decide for yourself how much better of job the $$ paint pulls off. It's well worth it imo...no question about it.


    I got top of the line paint from Colour Your World (Canadian Store not sure if their in the States). It was $50 a gallon. It still sucked.


    God Bless All You Painters.
  • timrothtimroth Posts: 215
    jamie uk wrote:
    Hi, you called ;)
    Painting can be fun, it's all about perspective.
    Call me next time you need some work doing, I'll do a special rate ;)


    Let me know next time your in Waterloo, Ontario, I'll take you up on your offer..
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    timroth wrote:
    I got top of the line paint from Colour Your World (Canadian Store not sure if their in the States). It was $50 a gallon. It still sucked.


    God Bless All You Painters.

    Yeah I think the color your world stuff does suck that much even at that price. It's something like Behr paint at home depot. Really crappy paint.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    timroth wrote:
    Any Professional Painters Here?? .


    not walls ;) painting houses is tough
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    timroth wrote:
    Let me know next time your in Waterloo, Ontario, I'll take you up on your offer..


    ok :D

    We take this
    http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd190/pearljamie1970/DSC00835.jpg
    do this
    http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd190/pearljamie1970/DSC00841.jpg
    make this
    http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd190/pearljamie1970/DSC00845.jpg
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,291
    I utterly despise painting.

    God it sucks!
  • quarterpastquarterpast Posts: 185
    I kind of like painting my house :) I've gotten really good at edges to where I don't even tape, which saves hours. I actually just redecorated my bathroom. Scraped off 3 layers of wall paper (the bottom layer being from the 70's), 3 layers of floor tiles and a few plastic wall covers. Sanded, spackled, sanded, painted, laid new tiles, put up beadboard, trim, new lighting, new sink...voila! Still need new tub/shower walls, but that'll have to wait! I had a blast doing all of this! I like home stuff. I moved into this place a year ago, but then went away on work for a long time. Now I'm back and finally making it into my home. Turned one bedroom into a study. (More sanding, spackling, sanding, painting..building giant bookshelves...) I also learned how to fix giant cracks that form between ceilings and walls.

    As for expensive paint...I bought a giant bucket of off white from Lowe's that I used on most of my house for about $60, worked fine, looks great! For my bathroom, I was walking around Walmart and noticed the clearance rack where people return paint (mostly for not liking the color, etc), bought a gallon for $7, looks fantabulous!

    I can get talking about this stuff. hgtv is the best channel ever.
    rock bands may come and rock bands may go...
    but rock n roll will live forever! - ray davies
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i LOVE painting! we've been in our home 11.5 years, and i've painted and repainted, almost every room 2x. love to change it up, one of the cheapest/easiest ways of freshening up your space. i've done color-washes, sponging, rag-rolling, etc. bit tired of the 'effects' lately, so we *just* redid our LR and hall in february.


    as cutback said, prepwork sucks....but the actual painting, FUN...and the end results....SOOOO worth it! besides, my husband is GREAT at painting edges w/o tape...so he does that. ;)


    so hereya go, LR this past xmas, walls were rag-rolled:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/christmas%202007/newsofaxmas.jpg


    and the new paint job, a beautiful, flat red:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/redLR.jpg
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/redLRdaylite.jpg
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/redhall.jpg
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/halldaylite-kitchen.jpg
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    decides2dream wrote:
    i LOVE painting! we've been in our home 11.5 years, and i've painted and repainted, almost every room 2x. love to change it up, one of the cheapest/easiest ways of freshening up your space. i've done color-washes, sponging, rag-rolling, etc. bit tired of the 'effects' lately, so we *just* redid our LR and hall in february.


    as cutback said, prepwork sucks....but the actual painting, FUN...and the end results....SOOOO worth it! besides, my husband is GREAT at painting edges w/o tape...so he does that. ;)


    so hereya go, LR this past xmas, walls were rag-rolled:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/christmas%202007/newsofaxmas.jpg


    and the new paint job, a beautiful, flat red:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/redLR.jpg
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/redLRdaylite.jpg
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/redhall.jpg
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/dreamncolor/halldaylite-kitchen.jpg

    That's a lovely place you got there :)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    That's a lovely place you got there :)


    grazie. :)


    i just love home projects. we hadn't done any in quite a long while, so it was fun to start a few up again. so sure, like to show off the handiwork. :p


    *btw - i am no *pro*....although i was an art teacher and studied design if that counts? :o haha. my mother was very 'handy', did all the painting in our house, thus how i first learned. as i got older, just got interested, and learned so much on my own by books and experimentation. :)
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Worldwidesuicide08Worldwidesuicide08 Posts: 79
    timroth wrote:
    Kudos to you!!

    I just finished painting my dining room and painting sucks.

    If you can do that for a living you have my respect.
    Im a painter, its not so bad when you get into it, ive had worse jobs
    Cant touch the bottom...


    London 96.
    Manchester 00.
    London 07.
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