I must be weird then. I can't tell you how many times I've either helped a friend paint, or had a friend help me paint. I still say I'll paint for pizza and beer
Post by spunkypenguin on May 13, 2012 15:10:23 GMT -5
I don't think so. Most of our friends live out of state, so we had family help paint the main (larger) living areas. I painted all of the bedrooms/bathrooms myself.
If our friends lived closer, I wouldn't mind helping to paint or having them come and help us paint - we all bought houses around the same time...
My mom and friends must be weird I didn't think anything of it when he asked me to help. I probably at some point said something like "let me know if I can help in any way!" and this was the way. No biggie.
His wife and I aren't close friends but we're friendly and she was home and we all had lunch and played with their dogs together.
I thought it was weird that they thought it was weird ,too, but I wondered if maybe I was the weird one. lol.
I hate painting my house but they did all the prep work so it wasn't bad at all to just paint and then leave. The part I really hate is all the taping and I didn't have to help with that.
Wow, people here are far nicer than me. I wouldn't help. Why can't he paint the room himself? Seriously, he needs help painting a room?
When my friends and I were all in our 20's buying our first homes, or getting our first apartment, the paint party-pizza thing was fun.
Fast forward to 30s and 40s, most people are on their 2nd or 3rd house, no way. We do it ourselves or hire someone. I don't paint friends' homes and I would never ask them to paint ours.
Post by GailGoldie on May 14, 2012 10:44:16 GMT -5
I do wonder if it's different in different parts of the country.... or if it's an age thing.
In my early 20's i could see someone asking... b/c we were all poor, etc. But now in my 30s I would think it was odd if someoen asked... b/c if you can't do it yourself you just pay someone to do it.
Also, the older you are, often you have kids, etc- so it's not like you can just go to a friend's house to paint and have fun and pizza...
the only time i have been asked was when my church all got together to help my pastor and his family in the house they bought - but it was a church thing, not a friend thing asking just me for help.
Post by thatgirl2478 on May 14, 2012 10:47:54 GMT -5
no, not weird at all.
On the 'can't paint while pregnant' - you CAN but you should either use low voc paint and/or make sure you're properly ventilating the room. It's much more tiring to paint while pregnant - especially once you hit the 3rd tri. I painted 90% of our house while pregnant and DD is just fine.
I do wonder if it's different in different parts of the country.... or if it's an age thing.
In my early 20's i could see someone asking... b/c we were all poor, etc. But now in my 30s I would think it was odd if someoen asked... b/c if you can't do it yourself you just pay someone to do it.
Also, the older you are, often you have kids, etc- so it's not like you can just go to a friend's house to paint and have fun and pizza...
the only time i have been asked was when my church all got together to help my pastor and his family in the house they bought - but it was a church thing, not a friend thing asking just me for help.
This, especially the bolded part. I haven't been asked to help paint since I was in my early 20s. And, DH painted one our nurseries by himself in the evening, and definitely didn't need any help. It's not that hard.
I think it's weird. Painting a bedroom isn't really a 2-person job.
My DH painted our whole house in like 2 days.
Can your DH paint my house too? lol. I can't imagine how you could do a whole house in 2 days. Each room I've done myself has been almost a full day project!
But I agree that a bedroom isn't really a 2 person project. I've painted most of the rooms in our house myself, with the exception of a rec room that DH and I did together. Honestly it saves time to do it together but you also get in each others' way and I find DH and I are better off doing things like that alone or we'll get on each others' nerves.
Since it wasn't my house I was painting, I didn't have the same problem in this case.
I think it's weird. Painting a bedroom isn't really a 2-person job.
My DH painted our whole house in like 2 days.
Can your DH paint my house too? lol. I can't imagine how you could do a whole house in 2 days. Each room I've done myself has been almost a full day project!
He painted houses in the summers during college so he can bang it out like it's nothing. He hates painting 3 dimensional objects, though.