Painting

Due to job and other issues, it turns out we are going to have to put our house on the market again and see if we can sell it to get out from under a hugely staggering mortgage. While we did pay a full 1/2 of the price down, the rest of the payment is just too much, better to cut and run now before we become yet another statistic.

Now, we are walking about the house with a running list in our head of all the stuff we need to do to make the house look marketable. Painting is on our list. Granted we only moved in last year so most all of the house was painted by us shortly after we moved in so it looks OK. Two areas are in desperate need of attention though, my upstairs hall and my deck. Both need painting, which I loathe.

I attacked the deck with the vengeance last year, getting it about 90% done. We have a huge deck and I thought that once I had it all done, I'd be all set. Turns out that latex stain on an area in which water may pool means that the paint will peel. Well, at least we know that now. In order to make the deck look good again, I should really scrape the whole thing and start over with an oil-based stain. Yeah, right. If it ever stops raining this summer, I may get to the scraping part and then just patching up with the same old stain again to see if it won't last until someone buys it and we leave. Cheesy and cheap, I know - but who would do otherwise?

The hall upstairs is going to be more problematic. We don't have staging for painting and the whole thing up there really needs it. When I look at all the painting we've had to do, I wonder why we ever bought a house in such a state. We had painted our old house in it's entirety prior to putting it on the market so it would look better. Then we stupidly go and buy a house that needs to be painted again - and I hate painting!

Somehow, hopefully it will all get done, and we can get it on the market. Then comes the hard part - keeping it clean for prospective buyers.