When the window replacement crew showed up, I cringed to myself. Embarrassed about the state of the house in disarray. Not like I did when the home inspector came and said to me, “Have you done any updates since building in 1990?”
Sigh. But still, it’s a mess and I’m not done painting yet.
Doesn’t everyone decorate their kitchen with piles of stuff everywhere and ladders?
And appliances pulled away from the walls and sponges on the counters?
And a general ‘work-in-progress’ look going on?
All I know is I have a new admiration for professional painters. I bet they don’t feel like fainting after painting?
PS – A little window update…
drumroll, please…
This window with the crack is gone! Yay…but…
The new window doesn’t have a crack, it fits just fine. As they set it in place I was paying attention and watching and noticed something.
I said to them, “Is that just a line from the sticker you removed or is it a crack?”
Installer on the right (panic of ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ in his voice – the same guy who cracked it the first time): “Where?”
Me: “Right above your left hand?”
Installer on the right: “I don’t see it.”
Me: “Move your hand lower, now stop, right above it, right there.”
Installer on the left: “I can see it, yep, it’s right there.”
Installer on the right, rubbing ferociously…hoping it was just a smudge, but it didn’t budge. It stayed bright as daylight streaked against the dark trees in the background.
Installer on the left: “Your eyes will go to that automatically every time you look at it.”
Me: “Yep. What is it?”
Installers on both sides…long sighs…their arms dropped, and they looked at each other and sighed again.
Installer on the left: “It’s a scratch on the Low-E tinting inside on one of the triple panes.”
Me: “Oh…”
Installer on the left, looking up at it as if hoping it was just an illusion, “Guess you’ll be seeing us again.”
Me and Mr.: Sigh, “Guess so.”
Post Inspiration – Cee’s Black and White Challenge – Things found in a kitchen
PS – I hope your week has been grand. I’m guessing that the badge contest winner will be revealed tomorrow on the Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt? What’s the funniest or quirkiest thing you have in your kitchen? Do you know professional painters? What DIY project have you done that you found a new appreciation for those who do that kind of work for a living?
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Yes, it was not a good thing to see. (PS – this comment went to spam too, I rescued it!!)
One day that window will be sorted !
I hope so!
I’m so sorry about that window. Let’s hope the third time is a charm. Our neighbor is a painter. I don’t think he ever feels like fainting. But, when you hire him, you move everything out of the way, and you put it back when he’s done. He just comes in, paints and leaves.
Thanks, Dan. That’s what I said to them as they were leaving – 3rd time better be the charm! I think you’re on to something the moving of stuff and putting it back adds to the work!
More window woes. Oh, I am sorry. I don’t know that we have anything particularly quirky in our kitchen, except me, of course! Happy weekend, Happy painting.
Yep – the saga seems to keep on keeping on. You’re the best part of your kitchen then! That teal pitcher is nice though…! Happy weekend to you too!
I do really like the type of windows you have, letting so much light in. The house I currently live in have beautiful windows, in fact most of the houses in the neighborhood have exquisite windows…but I have no idea why, because of the extreme sun in the desert everyone have them covered at all times. I don’t think I ever can get used to that.
I often spent my summers as a teenager painting houses with my step dad, he had a painting business (on the side of being a Priest..)
I enjoyed your post very much. Have a fabulous day!
Oh, good grief…so its time you start a book on “Life with my Window”…As far as updates since 1990, you have been busy raising family, loving hubby, blogging…that’s all time consuming stuff…and you did fabulous. /:0)
I feel your pain! That kind of thing happened to me so many times. I often wondered why don’t installers inspect their products FIRST? It would save everyone a lot of time and frustration.
Good for you and your eagle eye. The window should be correct! Painting is a slog, but it will look so great when it’s done 🙂
I don’t want to be too picky, but it is a big window and I don’t want to look at it and notice a flaw everyday. I hope they inspect it before they deliver it the next time. I doubt everyone sits with their camera ready to catch the action. I’m sure I made them feel extra guilty. Mean me.
3 coats of paint takes a long time. We’re loving it so far, just one more coat to go today. I hope! Thank you for your encouragement!!
Details are important! (not mean!)
Oh, man! What a pain. Maybe they will inspect the next one better before installing?? Anyway – yes! That’s exactly what my rooms look like when I paint. Lots of stuff everywhere. It’s just part of the drill. Hang in there. 🙂
I know – my heart sank when I saw it. I’m getting my exercise climbing around things, it is nothing like the first time we painted the house when it was completely empty. It did go much faster then. I’m on the last coat today…!! On the homestretch now!
Wow–what a hassle! Good luck with all your painting–don’t faint while you’re up on a ladder especially!
That it has been. I appreciate your well-wishes for my painting tasks. I’ll be done today, I hope!!
Wonderfully fun photos for this week. Thanks for playing 😀
Thank you, Cee!!
Very ambitious painting yourself. While my daughter and I did paint her bedroom and I painted the studio, both rooms were empty at the time. I would never attempt our kitchen! Looking forward to the colored version and to using the new #SoCS badge!
Thank you, Janet – I hope to be done with the painting today. I would’ve been done if the room had been completely empty…maybe? I may do a sneak peak of the color choices. We have lots of other things to do to get it ‘ready’ for a final photo shoot.
We don’t do DIY. I inherited my father’s inability to know which end of a screwdriver to use. I’ve done some small stuff around the house (hanging shades, for example) but anything bigger and IK call someone. We had a painter that was really good, but he’s sort of vanished. We’ve decided not to do anything until all the cats are gone, and trust me, there’ll be a lot…
LOL – I’m only trusted with small tools. Mr. is in charge of the power tools and such. Our pet hair has added a layer to the challenges. You’re wise to wait. 😉
That’s just rotten luck about the window, Shelley. And I despise painting. We hired painters last time but they spilled a gallon can of paint on the floor.
Oh, my, goodness…that’s rotten luck! I hope it was fairly easy to clean up???!!
Hmm – we had a “professional” paint and paper the last three times. The last time was a woman we got because Mr. Werner did a lousy job. We were happy the first time – the second time he needed stronger glasses and was cheap on the paint used (though we bought it) and every night, we’d give the windowsills and baseboards another coat of paint after my mom pointed it out and he was disgruntled with her. The woman was a piece of work and I’d never use her again. I have no quirky things in the kitchen, but I have many ducks – my mom collected ducks and they are in all shapes and forms in the kitchen … decoys, plates, a stuffed duck … roosters are plentiful too. A country kitchen dontcha know.
Your painter story reminds me of the guy I hired to help paint my mom’s house when we updated it to sell it. I was forever following him around making sure he was working. He’d be there paint a wall then disappear to other jobs? It was maddening. Probably why I just do it myself.
I remember you have ducks. My mother-in-law and my step-sister have roosters in their kitchens. They do fit a country kitchen theme well. This remodel is more of what Mr. likes – he’s put up with some of my wildly quirky themes over the years 😉
My mom kept saying that she could see the old paint on the sills and baseboards and he waved her off. The woman was a piece of work – arrived late, had hot flashes and ran outside to cool off, or smoke a cigarette on the back porch all the time, then left for good to pick her granddaughter up at school in mid-afternoon. She came highly recommended at the paint store and BBB. There are ducks in the other rooms as well and some are small ducks that are hand-carved and very cute. Ducks and geese … forgot about them. There is one at the end of the hall that was bought at a Pendleton store, pure wool and a tartan plaid with a red bow … ducks. I must keep the country theme or lose most of the knickknacks.
I often wonder about some people’s work ethic. Where did they learn to act that way, I’ll never know. Your knickknacks sound perfect for the country theme.