The barn gets a face lift

The barn got itself a make over this weekend. I am happy to say that is is now ready for the wedding... well maybe not 100% ready, but I would say about 90% ready.

Saturday morning, we were up and at 'em. I stayed in the house and finished my chores, while Ryan headed to the barn to start moving stuff out of the barn.

Mission 1: cleaned everything out of the barn so we could sweep and clean because everything had concrete dust on it. This task took about an hour just getting everything moved out and swept. Next step, start start cleaning the walls. One word for that - NASTY! And I thought our house had tall ceilings, well I quickly realized that the barn is even taller... about 13 or 14! up and down the ladder, and up and down the ladder.

THE BEFORE PICTURES

 

While I scrubbed the walls, Ryan started working on the wall in the other bay. It needed some serious mudding before we could even paint it. He is one awesome mudder!

Mission 2: Go to Lowes and buy paint. What a process. Buy a color that might match the color already on the walls. Yeah, right! The color I bought that looked like the swatch I took it, only matched that spot, because the rest of the walls were so discolored that it was next to impossible. And then also buy a light gray color to paint the rest of the walls. After a long process, I decided on Gravity (which is a shade lighter than the gray in the basement) and Sawyer White.

Mission 3: Prime and Paint. Paint. Paint. Again with the 14 foot ceilings. So I started priming the blue stripe and the D. J. Wheeler & Son.

And got rid of that and then painted the wall white. I am going to put a custom paint job on it, but that will get revealed later. I also did my first cut in job without painter tape. Figured it was a good chance to do it, since it was only the barn. And I did it! Then 2 more walls I painted gray. The last wall became my nemesis. Pipes, tubes, furnaces, everything that needed to be painted around and between. But we finished it.

THE AFTER PICTURES

After Ryan finished mudding and sanding his wall, he primed it with Kilz and then painted it the same gray color. One coat and it looks awesome!!

Mission 4: Sit on the couch and veg out and try to not think about how sore we are. 2 days of up and down the ladder, reaching, stretching... oh my!

But mission accomplished! Check it out!