Mark the Painter

Mark is painting the interior of our house and we are soooo happy about that! He started on Monday and will complete the job tomorrow.

Mark is (as my mom would have said) a “real dude.” He is 42 years old and has been in business for himself for about 3-4 years. He is happy to be self-employed, setting his own hours and riding his motorcycle or snowboarding when the mood strikes. And he is a lot like Mike. Mark does good work and we have had great conversations over the past two days. If you need a painter in my area, let me know!

And the house…what a difference a fresh coat of paint makes. It’s not that our walls were bad, but now they are beautiful. Mark is using a semi-gloss white paint for the ceilings and an eggshell “antique” color for the walls. And in the dining and kitchen areas he will use a higher gloss paint.

In between Jake’s drywall/texturizing work and Mark’s painting, we had John, Ryan and Taylor in to replace the shower in our bathroom off the master bedroom. Things are really starting to come together and Mike and I took our first shower in the new shower tonight!

The garage sale was successful, but we still have lots of stuff. A charitable organization called Northwest Center will be by next week to pick up the bulk of the garage sale stuff and then we’ll take the leftovers to a used items store called Value Village. Plus, I’m sure we’ll have another run or two to the dump...how did we get so much STUFF???