I own a house year round but there is something about spring that brings out the hidden home reno girl in me. I watch all the shows. I hang out in Home Depot. I'm not that handy but I do get the urge to try my hand at it.
The urge doesn't go away just because I've socked all my free cash into those bargain basement selling stocks offered right now so I have to find a way to do it on the cheap.
One solution?
Spending the money on paint. Changing a wall color is a relatively quick, easy, and inexpensive way to update a room. (Lucky for me, a decade after moving in, I still have the builder's primer on some of my walls… LOL, told ya I wasn't handy.)
I'll wait for sales and coupons (or even better coupons AND sales). Sometimes if I'm impatient, I'll phone paint manufacturers and ask if they have any coupons. Usually they will send me some (especially if I'm very nice about it).
I don't like buying the cheapo paint. I'm lazy. I find I have to use more coats with the cheap paints and if I have to use more coats, the savings tend to disappear.
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I agree! I am remodeling my kitchen (doing the work ourselves, yeah) and my wall colour cost $55 a gallon! Now, since there's not much wall space, I was able to use only one gallon, even with the two coats my dark colour required. We bought cheap paint when we did our living room...bad idea. It needs to be re-painted:-(.
Posted by Clean Simple | April 18, 2008 2:41 PM
Posted on April 18, 2008 14:41