Thursday

Today we finished the inside of the kitchen in the morning and were able to start on the outside of the building before lunch. Looking back, the first couple days there were the most productive one’s we had. All the paint was right there for us, including some rollers and brushes. It was easy to get to work on it. I did have to wait a little bit on a ladder though, I needed one to use for cutting in around the ceiling of the kitchen. A couple of the workers build me a heavy wooden ladder to use. They actually build two ladders and then nailed them together, which didn’t seem like a very good idea at the time. But alas, praise God, the ladder was too big for inside and I only ended up using one half of it.

Up top was my ladder... This is Rod laughing at the greatness of his ladder.

When we started to paint the outside of the building, that’s when things got confusing. We had a 5 gallon bucked of yellow paint that we were told to use on the outside of the kitchen. Cool. We were eating lunch and looking at the building which had 1 coat on about a quarter of the outside when one of the engineers (yes, there were several engineers and also a couple architects working on this thing) told us that we had the wrong color. A trip to the hardware store after lunch yielded some more paint. I wouldn’t say the colors were ugly, I’m sure they have their place, but I don’t’ know if they really highlighted the true inner beauty of the kitchen. I’ll leave it at that.
This day marked the start of us using several different colors of paint, a couple different types of primer, and a lot more confusion as to what was to be painted with what color, and where in the world are the good brushes and rollers.

Our first attempt at painting the kitchen

Second attempt at the kitchen.