Painting Advances.

Finally the front of the house was all sanded and we could crack on with painting it.

The shutters got a couple of coats of gloss white to match the window frames



and the wall got stained a very dark brown, almost black.



The painting, like the staining before it, was a slow process due to a dog constantly needing a ball throwing, a cat constantly needing reassuring affection and an autistic person constantly needing to tug at the painter for no obvious reason. Sid, by the way, has reason to fear being supplanted. As if it wasn't enough that there should be one additional cat that cat has developed a suspicious bulge amidships:



After one coat the wall looks like this:



it looks much smarter than the untouched wall to the left but, perhaps, a little austere. Reinstalling the repainted shutters will make it less formal: