Steeler Room Construction - Part 1

Painting on the Steelers room got underway this past week on Tuesday with Darcy and me ready for action. Armed with brushes, rollers, edgers, and paint we tackled the job at hand. I explained the rules of painting and handed her a wet towel telling her this would become her best friend when painting with latex.

Madison, who hates change, avoided the whole situation for quite awhile until I asked her to remove the outlet covers for us so that we wouldn't have to paint around them. She did this job and then cooked us lunch and cleaned up the mess. While she was on a roll (a little painting humor) she did a load of laundry.

We started out at the entryway to the room and worked our way away from the wall with no windows because of all the computer equipment. I did the edging while Darcy rolled. There was quite a bit of edging as one wall has 4 windows and a door and the other wall has an entryway and a window.

The hardest part of the job was moving out the furniture so that we could get to the wall. We would have to stop painting, put down our brushes, cans and rollers, clean our hands and move furniture. Then we would have to call Madison for the outlets and on we would go.

By the end of 5 hours Darcy and I had painted 2 1/2 walls with two coats of paint. Darcy was edging the baseboards and constantly calling for "her best friend". I was aching from moving furniture and climbing up and down the ladder.

Darcy jumped into the pool. I cleaned up the mess and put the furniture back. We were quite satisfied with the color and our job thus far.

The next day we were both sore. We decided to take a few days off until Kelly could help us on Friday. She arrived around 1:30 ready for action....after she enjoyed her lunch. By the time we got around to actually painting it was past 3:00 PM.

With everything ready to go I told her I would edge and she could roll. She asked what that entailed and that was when I discovered she knew nothing about painting. Had never painted a room in her life! Another novice to teach. Like Darcy, she was quick to catch on (I mean it ain't rocket science) and away we went.

By the time we got to the wall with no windows, but tons of computer wires we were slowing down in our enthusiasm, but I told her this wall would be quick once the edging was complete as we had nothing but wall. Of course we had to work our way around shelving units, a filter outlet, and a million computer wires that we couldn't unhook without the okay of the big man.

We managed to pull out everything (except my desk) enough to get behind to paint and finish the room.

The next day we moved around the furniture so that we could see if my idea of the room would actually work. Tom helped out with the unhooking and hooking back up of the computers and television. We all agreed that the color was a nice one and brightened the room and gave it a cozy feel.

One down.