MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

So, if you recall, the paint that was used on our main floor and stairwell was the correct color, but the wrong finish. When we brought this up, we were informed that the paint had to sit for a MONTH (!!!!) because there are magical paint fairies who visit in the night and change the finish of your wall paint, one sprinkling of fairy dust at a time, or some other such nonsense.**

My suspicion is that this month-long waiting period serves no-one other than the painters themselves. After 30 days, people either get used to the mistake and decide to live with it, or get used to contractors NOT being in their house, love it, and decide to live with it.

I am not one of those people. As it turns out, neither is our fantastic Eiffel rep, Lori (aka THE HAMMER).

She told the painters on Monday that we would wait out the month, but that the paint would not be accepted, so they would be redoing it. And, they wouldn't see payment until it was done.

The painters said they'd be showing up today (which they have).

I told our project manager that we wanted the walls primed out first- if you keep layering paint over paint, even if it's the same color, the wall gets darker. I wanted the walls to match, so the 4 underlying layers of paint needed to be primed out. The painters said it was an unnecessary step. I said fine, but if the walls are too dark, they'd be coming back again to redo it, and they wouldn't see payment until we're happy.

They're priming as we speak.

The painting will take 2 separate trips- priming and first coat today, and second coat either Thursday or Friday (depending on the painters and when the project manager can let them into our house). Once this is done- it's SO HARD not to get ahead of ourselves- we just have to finish the cabinets, and get the sound guys come back to explain our setup, AGAIN. When we tried to set up our home theatre, things weren't working properly, and we couldn't figure out why...so clearly we missed something when we were being walked through our system. I feel stupid for having to call them back, but spending the money to install it and not being able to use it is even dumber!

But....the end is near! Really, really near!


** I do realize that paint does change as it cures- colors will alter and finishes may tone down. However, we needed a matte finish. We got semi-gloss. No amount of curing will get those to match.