The Self Builder’s blog

You know the old censored saying - if you can urinate you can paint? 

Well, I might just be able to blow that myth.

I’m not well known for my practical, hands-on skills.  In fact my Manuel Labor joke is one of my favourites.

More patience and less frustration are needed.  I tend to get annoyed that I can’t do things brilliantly straight away, and jobs like painting are boring for most people.

Anyway this week I decided I needed to actually get some paint on the exposed woodwork of the porch.

Since this has been constructed I’ve been umm-ing and arr-ing over whether to paint the non-oak woodwork white, or to stain it a similar colour to the oak beams.

Having seen both types of finishes on properties around this area, I plumped for white paint.

This woodwork has been exposed a while so I thought it was getting necessary to start this process.  And who worse to start it than myself.

So, off I went armed with brush undercoat and steps.  All the woodwork is painted, as well as some of the house and some of the roof felt.

I shall just have to fit some really nice front door furniture on to stop visitors looking up in my porch, and when I say fit, I mean by someone else!