In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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See... I love posting pics here and then noticing things I didn't notice or forgot about IRL...
It occurred to me as I was hanging that door that I never painted that header beam in the closet. And until looking at it right now in the pics, I already forgot about it.
Now I wont' feel so bad about opening up the flat paint for touch ups. I'll hit that with a few coats as well and skip primer. Then when it dries I'll make it shiny like everything else. 
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Now here's a cool thing I can point out that I didn't realize until now.
I know I've talked about the crazy walls in my house and how at one point I was convinced that they had plastered about 3/4" walls on top of drywall and couldn't wrap my head around that. All the stuff I tore out in the basement was drywall, but any original walls in the house on the top 2 floors were done this way.
And that closet was an addition at some point. There was a point in time where that bedroom was quite a bit larger and people used wardrobes if they didn't have closets.
I know all of this for a fact because the light switch for the bedroom used to be outside of the bedroom, on the left side of the stairs to the attic. So at some point they made the bedroom a little smaller to keep access to the attic outside of that bedroom and made the closet to make the loss of space make sense. And this totally explains why I have an empty door frame before getting to the small bedroom or the attic door.
But they didn't move the electric into the room. It's one of the things I was doing way back when I'd BS with Wishy and JO every night. I don't think I'd have it in me to do all that work again today, but I was pretty proud of that job and the fact it was all done with hard pipe was insane. 
So this cool shot here shows that they just eliminated most of the wall that used to be there to make that closet. Or maybe they did have a small closet in there across from the steps to the attic when it was all in the same room?
If that's the case, they opened it up much wider for bifolds.
Either way, that spot right there is the only remaining place where you can currently tell how these walls were actually done.
I learned just a little while ago on some random youtube video that popped up in my feed that this is the way they were temporarily doing things before the complete transition to drywall. It was a lot easier and cheaper to do it this way than to pay the really skilled artists that would plaster over wood lathe like all the walls in my Grams house were.
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Aah, SIX. That paint looks gray to me.
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Just FYI... If you can't see any images that I'm posting, it looks like imgbb.com might be having some issues right now. They did come back up for about 30 seconds, but then showed generic "uploading this content requires registration" images again.
Hopefully they come back up and I don't have to find another image hosting platform and reupload things.
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Yeah, everything is fine today. Will add to notes about getting a routine of starting up.
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Everything done for today. Hands are bad right now because of stretching to reach things off of very high places. One was a broom handle situation. Aarrgh!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Aah, SIX. That paint looks gray to me.
Oh... I mean on the white wall on the left with the shelves on it. It was taken in the dark, so maybe that's why it looks grey. The paint on the left wall is the same paint on the rest of that wall, which is a blue/grey.
If I wasn't painting int the dark, I would have noticed this sooner. My eyes couldn't tell the difference when it was still wet, but the camera already could.
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Heh... I knew that was going to happen.
I've got to put at least 2 coats of my good white paint on to cover up the bad paint I used for the original touchups. What a dummy. I honestly couldn't see the difference without the lights on, but they were in the pictures I snapped when the paint was still wet. All I had to do was put some lights on instead of going by the limited light from the cloudy day.
Oh well. I'm getting all that header done too, and that's probably going to need 3 coats since I didn't put primer on it.
I look at how nice I made that header in the master bedroom and I'm kind of mad at myself for not doing that in the small bedroom too before putting those doors up. Oh well. I'll just camouflage it now. No big deal...
Sun will be going down soon and I've done nothing much but procratinate all day. Hopefully I'll get something else done besides just that.
I've got some nice cardboard I'm going to cut to size for the large bedroom closet so I can start getting some stuff in there. There's a perfect spot in there for my good guitar, so that's where it's going. I'm just going to make sure to put a hand towel between the back of the case and the wall so I don't have more walls to touch up down the road.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Aah, SIX. That paint looks gray to me.
Oh... I mean on the white wall on the left with the shelves on it. It was taken in the dark, so maybe that's why it looks grey. The paint on the left wall is the same paint on the rest of that wall, which is a blue/grey.
If I wasn't painting int the dark, I would have noticed this sooner. My eyes couldn't tell the difference when it was still wet, but the camera already could.
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Oops, sorry SIX.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Aah, SIX. That paint looks gray to me.
Oh... I mean on the white wall on the left with the shelves on it. It was taken in the dark, so maybe that's why it looks grey. The paint on the left wall is the same paint on the rest of that wall, which is a blue/grey.
If I wasn't painting int the dark, I would have noticed this sooner. My eyes couldn't tell the difference when it was still wet, but the camera already could.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Oops, sorry SIX.
No worries, Brenda.
Funny story about today when I was doing the 2nd/3rd coats on those touch ups and AFTER I told you the difference in the walls.
I mentioned it was super cloudy today, and in the afternoon when the sun is on the exact opposite side of the house, apparently there are some weird color effects when coupled with my LED flashlight...
I noticed on the wall with the blue that there were areas that I hadn't touched up yet. Of course I haven't because I don't have any of that blue paint at the moment to do those touchups...
But I didn't see the blue, and both walls looked to me like they were the same color and I just did it.
Two seconds later I realized what I just did and I ran to the bathroom and got some baby wipes and fortunately was able to get all that white paint off my damn blue/grey wall.
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