The fun never sets!

[Mik]

They really don’t t very often, but we have lots of high places for them to be on.

[Renauda]

Looks great, Mik. We refinished our kitchen cabinet doors fours years ago. We decided to do it ourselves. Turned out fine. A lot of work though. Started in June and finished end of September. Had to make a painting booth inside the garage.

[Mik]

Thanks! Yeah, I did the same thing in 2005. A LOT of work. I have since developed an aversion to that kind of stuff.

[George K]

Looks wonderful.

I will never, ever, remodel anything again.

[Mik]

I wondered. You were asking about quartz and I just thought your place is too new to remodel.

[George K]

@Mik said in The fun never sets!:

your place is too new to remodel

15 years.

I love our granite, however. It's most unusual.

[blondie]

2 of our 3 kitties (R.I.P.) used to rub up on every corner they could. Over time I could see these greasy dark rub spots. It especially bugged me in our last house where we had the white MDF cabinets. I was constantly bending down cleaning corners. My husband wants a cat again. And one cat always leads to 2 and so on with us. I gotta plan ahead with the cabinets.

[Mik]

Luna does that. She claims everything all day. Other than that she is the perfect cat - never, ever does anything she’s not supposed to. Stella, on the other hand, has two speeds - asleep and busy, busy, busy.

[blondie]

I remember putting water bottles up high on top around the periphery of the fridge to prevent our boy cats from jumping from the island or lower cabinets. Once they got on top of the fridge they’d jump to the upper cabinets and chase each other. Scary, especially when mama is cooking below.

[Mik]

“Kitty in the stew!”

[Renauda]

@Mik

I have since developed an aversion to that kind of stuff.

I have an aversion to starting a project of that sort. Once started however I have greater aversion to not doing it with at least a degree or two of professionalism or worse, leaving it incomplete. I actually convince myself I am enjoying it all.

[Mik]

I used to actually enjoy it a lot. About 60 or so a switch just flipped. Not sure why. I guess 25 years of painting, trenching, remodeling, tearing down and putting up walls, adding exterior doors and rebuilding the deck just used it up. I was a perfectionist then, but no longer.

[Renauda]

@Mik

I think I know what you mean. I’ve even noticed that my enthusiasm for major projects grows ever dimmer as years pass..

[Mik]

Sadly I just came in from staining three 8' shoe mouldings. Got a perfect match to what's there now.

But I hated it. I hated going to Menard's...I hated finding the mouldings (farthest possible corner of the store). Then I hated going to the OTHER farthest corner of the store to find wood stains. I hated the agony of picking the right stain, then schlepping up to the cash register. Then I hated setting up the saw horses. Staining them was hard on the back because my saw horses are just above knee height. But they look great.

I still hate it.

[Jolly]

Does this mean a new career as a painting contractor is not in the works?

[George K]

When we bought the house all of the woodwork, other than the crown moldings, was painted white.

We spent months stripping paint.

I woulnd't wish that task on anyone. Well, maybe on some people, but almost not anyone.

[Mik]

No one you like, anyway.

[Mik]

@Jolly said in The fun never sets!:

Does this mean a new career as a painting contractor is not in the works?

Never say never in a recession.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in The fun never sets!:

@Jolly said in The fun never sets!:

Does this mean a new career as a painting contractor is not in the works?

Never say never in a recession.

Had a first cousin that had a business fail and a divorce at the same time. He was mid-thirties, broke and everything he owned was in the truck.

And...It was during a recession.

He started by knocking on doors in carefully chosen subdivisions...One story, brick veneer homes. He told the owner if they bought the paint, he'd paint the house for x dollars and he did the first couple cheap. After that, business picked up and he was soon able to afford a contractor account at Sherwin-Williams.

He made a good living and sold the biz ten years later...

[Mik]

Any trade these days will serve you well. We have an older population that doesn’t want to do these things any more and a younger population that barely knows how to wipe their own ass.

Plus you can charge a helluva lot more these days and get it.