[Insert Cliché about What Homeowners Do on Friday Nights Here]

Yes, yes, once you have a house, you start finding fairly mundane things to be exciting, we've all heard it before. But that's the thing about clichés – as boring as they can be, they often carry a grain of truth.

And that is why we found ourselves spending our Friday night painting the basement wall. Willingly, even happily.

When we had our house inspection, inspector Val (Walter really, but he's from Austria, so all bets were off) recommended that we paint the basement walls with a moisture-blocking paint. It is already a decently dry basement, but we do feel it necessary to run a dehumidifier there in order to be able to store things and keep them from getting too damp for comfort. Hopefully the paint will keep us from having to run the machine as much as we do now (or did, until our recent dry spell here). But I digress.

The drag of it is that the first of the two required coats pf paint must be applied with a brush in order to get in all the nooks and crannies a cinder block has to offer. Thus, it is a slow, and somewhat tedious process.

Here's what E had done before I got involved:

This isn't a true before shot, but it gives you an idea of a wall we have yet to tackle:

E felt this picture had a Soviet, triumph-of-the-worker feel to it:

Action shot:

 

Our night's work:

Unfortunately, this is one of the short walls of the basement, but still, progress!

Now for a sneak preview:

Intrigued? More soon.