Painting the Garage

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When we bought this house we knew the garage was packed to the ceiling with old furniture and junk. We could have insisted that the owner (actually it was their son) clean it out but it would have delayed the closing for the third time. We told them we would take care of it. The packed garage was both a blessing and a curse. Some of the furniture was in remarkably good shape. We hauled some of it back into the house and let both our sons go ‘shopping’ in the garage. The remaining pieces that were in good shape were donated to the Goodwill or Habitat for Humanity. We figured once the stuff was out of the way all we would have to do is paint and install garage door openers. We were wrong. There were holes in the walls and most of the baseboards were water damaged. My husband patched the walls and replaced the baseboards. Now it’s my turn. Chris HATES painting. I painted one wall last weekend, but the job I was dreading was painting behind the hot water heater. It’s hard to reach around the stupid thing. As I wanted to get it done, I tackled it this morning. On impulse, I duct taped the paintbrush to a thick dowel. It worked. The worst is behind me. It shouldn’t take long to finish now. Have you ever ‘extended’ your paintbrush to make a tedious job easier?