{"id":3544,"date":"2009-08-12T04:59:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:06:33","slug":"looking-worse-on-the-way-to-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/08\/looking-worse-on-the-way-to-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking worse on the way to better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintAW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kalispell, Montana, Flathead Valley Painter, Andrew Rech of A&#038;B Painting, started on my house yesterday.  It is a happy day all around except for maybe Bob who didn&#8217;t think the pressure washing was his cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintB.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintBW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day one was washing, masking, sanding and priming.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintCW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Andrew left, he told me there were just a few little things that he needed to do before he would start spraying the main color today.  I&#8217;m sticking with light gray on the house, but changing the trim to a dark gray.  And then&#8230;..and then! &#8211; maybe some shrubs or plants or something around the base of the house.  I&#8217;ve put that off saying I didn&#8217;t want to be painting around shrubs and plants.  I&#8217;ve wanted to paint the house since I bought it almost 3 years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintD.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug9\/PaintDW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Andrew!  Although the house looks worse right now, it is on its way to looking much better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalispell, Montana, Flathead Valley Painter, Andrew Rech of A&#038;B Painting, started on my house yesterday. It is a happy day all around except for maybe Bob who didn&#8217;t think the pressure washing was his cup of tea. Day one was washing, masking, sanding and priming. When Andrew left, he told me there were just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-projects"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22172,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/22172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}