Thoughts about painting

[valis2]

So the new place (1500 sq ft) needs to be painted.

I do not want to paint it. I only want a couple coats of white paint, applied by an expert.

My father is telling me he will teach me how to paint, and I can do it myself rather cheaply, or pay $$$ and have it done by an expert.

However, I'm worried about the timetable, and I am also concerned about how little time I have available for the next two months and how I have to clean out the new place and somehow get rid of all of the stuff there that we don't want to keep, clean out the apartment and transfer everything to the new place, and also pick out flooring and have it installed at the new place, and sign paperwork and get a mortgage, and do my usual eBay/shows/trips/pull out hair all the while. Also, I know how I operate, and if I am the one doing the painting, it will all end in tears.

Anyone have suggestions for getting a house painted in the metro Detroit area, without leaning on friends? I just need a nice, neat two-coat white paint job on 1500 sq ft. Well, less, actually, because one bedroom doesn't need it.


In other news, I've started posting the Riptide fic at the comm. It ended up at 26K. I might still revise the last chapter a teensy bit, but wow. I did not expect this--I thought 5K, max. *blinks* Anyway, I'm so happy to have it (pretty much) finished so that it will STOP EATING MY BRAIN.

Comments

[todayiamadaisy]

Why not get a quote from the professionals and then weigh up your options (speed and quality versus you doing it more cheaply)? It could be that doing it yourself may not save you as much money as you'd think, especially if you put a value on your own time and all the other things you could be doing with it.

My family would be horrified at me saying that: they would never pay for a painter or wallpaperer. But I hate doing stuff like that with a passion, possibly because of a childhood spent scraping and painting whenever we decorated. :-)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I am just not equipped to handle painting a whole house, not when I'm leaving in mid-January and I have people coming over on Christmas Day and Husband's grandmother is still kind of there, rummaging about in her belongings.

She even said she'd be back in another week to stay and load up more stuff, which means that I will still have to wait about getting someone in to actually paint. *cringes*