Musings from Left Field

I started prim­ing the grooves of my pan­el­ing today. About 6 grooves later, I was exhausted and really over­whelmed. The wood sucks up the primer like a sponge.

I’m embar­rassed to admit this, but I gave up. I put down the paint­brush, logged into Angie’s List, and sched­uled esti­mates for paint­ing the entire room. The first one is tomor­row morning.

It’s not that I couldn’t do the project. Phys­i­cally, (if spread out over a cou­ple weeks) I could man­age it. How­ever, I only planned to paint one wall. There were still 3 more walls to go. The prospect of barely fin­ish­ing the project only to still have 3 walls remain­ing leaves me defeated. I would hold a paint party if there weren’t so much room for error with the paneling.

Maybe the expense is worth it. We don’t use the room now– It’s 4 walls and a ceil­ing of dark dreary wood pan­el­ing. Chang­ing it into a bright room that is fin­ished out and usable could make a huge dif­fer­ence in my men­tal out­look and could inspire changes to other areas of the house.

We’ll see if my cheap side wins out or if my defeated un-painting self gets the bet­ter of me.