Sometimes We Get Carried Away
A week or two ago we spent a Sunday afternoon giving a second coat of exterior grade paint to our new trash can-concealing fence.
It turned out looking so clean and bright that our dingy white and worn car port paint job started looking even dingier and worn out-ier.
True, we are planning on enclosing our car port, converting it to a one-car garage, but in the meantime we’ve got to maintain the paint job we have that gets beaten by the sun, rain and snow throughout the year.
That being said, we just kept going with our paint brushes from the fence to the carport. We didn’t even realize how grimey our posts were until we slapped some paint on them. You can really see the difference in the photo. The right side is of course the freshly painted side.
Yikesabee! What a great unexpected update. You could eat off those babies. You know, after they dry and all.
We used Valspar exterior paint, purchased at Lowes, and are really happy with the thick, semi-gloss results. Here’s a snippet of the “before” shot which we thought was just of the trash cans. It’s so bright out that you can’t really tell that the posts are mucho grimo until you look at the “after” shot.
This was the “after” fence photo we used from the previous post about how it all went down. You guys would have had no way of knowing but our car port posts were already freshly painted in this picture. We see a bit of a difference in the picture, but in person they look really great. So fresh and so clean clean. It’s also pretty crazy that in the “after” picture a house seems to have appeared. Chad took the first shot and I took the second. I think this is a good example of how detail oriented he is. He probably saw the neighbors’ house in the camera and moved so our home looked surrounded by trees and green. I just snapped away at the neighbor’s casa, and didn’t even notice until now.
Just for a little bit of comic relief – while painting the fencing and the outside posts of the car port we had a little visit from our fur babies, or at least their heads.
Poor things were quarantined in the back yard while we painted away, too far out of sight apparently. They took shifts keeping an eye on us.
Barton’s eye look like they are bulging out a little in that picture, but we promise his head wasn’t stuck or anything. We didn’t have to do the ol’ butter trick, or embrace our inner Kimmy Gibbler and make them smell our feet.
If there had been a few more hours in that Sunday we would have moved on to our screened-in back porch. It’s badly in need of its own paint job. For now that will have to wait for another day – we’re such dorks that we really cannot wait.
Want to read about more ways to easily maintain your casa? Check out this post from last year and the rest of our DIY page here.
Photo: Full House
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Have the car port bricks also been painted in that “after” shot or is the lighting and fresh white paint making them look darker? It looks great either way!
No the bricks haven’t been painting. They might need it next summer. They probably just look darker from the painted posts and the sunlight.
Hey, thanks for the blog.Really looking forward to read more. Much obliged.