Things I'm Not Going to Worry About

Okay, so still no really exciting pictures of the basement hallway. I forgot about trim.

Some people like to wait until last to do the trim. Me, I do it first - that way, I can paint up to it and the whole paint job seems to go more smoothly. So I started the paint job with the trim, and it's done. Yippee, not really an exciting time to photograph.

While I was painting the trim, though, I found a few problems. But I'm not going to obsess over them (yes, I'm a little obsessive, especially about paint jobs). Here's the list, though, about what I'm actually going to let go (this time):

• The floor. Honestly, I consider this concrete slab the subfloor - so who cares if it gets a bit of paint on it?
• The gap between the trim and the wall. Again, if I'm replacing the trim, why would I caulk the old trim? It would just make replacing it more difficult. I just want it to look decent in the interim.

• Painting the doors. This is kinda like the floor thing. These old 70's doors are so history...eventually. So I'm not going to go through the exercise of taking them down, or even wasting some good painter's tape. They do beg the question, though: why 70's doors in a 1985 house? Hm.
• The curvature on the door frame is fun, right? Yes, another thing I am not going to worry about. That would be a pain to fix (think: rehanging the drywall and doing it the right way this time).

Curvature on the left, excess paint on the right. What's not to love?

• The trim "overhang". Ugh, this is a technique used throughout the house, and I fully intend to set it right, but with new trim. The way things are speeding along, I may be cutting that new trim when Sophia is in school (still a good 2-1/2 years away).

What I am going to worry about: The outlets. I've not been very successful at getting Doug to update these to white, but maybe I can talk him into showing me how to do it...then I can replace all of them downstairs!

I know, another project to remain unfinished for who-knows-how-long. Hush those unpleasant thoughts.

At any rate, I think I'm actually (finally) ready to put color on these walls!