Painting the Farmhouse

So if we're going to keep the house - we're going to paint it!

Since I had time off between a job change - I boldly informed John that it wouldn't be a problem at all to quickly paint the house. John for his part, did much to organize the needed supply and temper my enthusiasm to a realistic outlook of the project.

So on Friday October 28, 2011, John meet me at the farm and dropped on the off hotsie. A bit later, the boom lift rental arrived. The day was filled with power washing the house - filled with power washing.

While prepping, John removed the old front porch. Todd Weaver and his brother were on hand for the demo as well.

 John fixing the roof..

 Fixing the back deck..

 Teaching me to use the hotsie..

 Power washing in action

After power washing, we spent the better part of the morning prepping the windows with plastic and tape for priming and painting.

Part way through priming...

Though we worked into the night on Saturday, the priming was not quite finished. Sunday morning was wet and misting. It wasn't until the afternoon that we started with the final coat. At the end of the day Sunday, I hadn't finished all the way around the house, but here's how it looked. The finished project...almost!

John finished the paint job the following Monday and here it is! We're quite please with the outcome, but this will likely be the last house we paint!

The Farmhouse

To be completely honest, we've never had any intentions of keeping the farm house. Original to the farm, the main part of the house was built around 1874. The addition over the garage are was added about a 100 years later.

We actually never toured the house before we made the offer, as we were under the impression it was not inhabitable.

Turns out, that's definitely not the case. We walked through it the first time in September and it's in okay shape, but could use a good cleaning. Believe it our not, it actually received high marks from a home inspection conducted on the 20th! No mold, no moisture, just in need of some minor repairs, TLC, and more smoke detectors ;)

The Cats

Hannah came for a visit in late October to meet Beau & Stubby!