Sand sand sand, paint paint paint

These railings needed some love. By some, I mean a LOT. Not just the railings, but the stairs, and top of the deck also were chipping, and have a good amount of water damage. The peeling paint needs to be fixed for FHA Approval, so: sand sand sand, paint paint paint.

Here's a close up of the edge of one of the stairs, most of them were cracking paint like this one.

Here's the top of the deck sanded down, you can see at this point the railings in the corner of the photo have already been painted.

The paint was still wet when we left, so I couldn't quite yet take an 'after' photo of the deck... but my guess is it'll need some touch up coat, and sealer before it's really done anyhow. 

So remember that wall from hell in the garage? We finally finished scraping the crap off of it. I had originally purchased America's Finest exterior paint base to cover the wall with... this stuff is crap. It was a super goopy consistency and just didn't roll on great. You could barely tell we'd painted the first coat. Probably a good reason it was $8 cheaper a gallon than Behr... after one coat I said fuck it and we went to Home Depot to get some nice Behr Premium Exterior Ultra White paint and it came out pretty nice.

first coat, you could still see the mint green peaking through pretty well

second coat with Behr

We also bought some light bulbs as you can see for the two sockets on this side of the garage. Helped a ton to see what we were doing over there.

It felt great to say "this wall is done" after we spent so much time and energy scraping all that crappy, flaky plaster stuff off. It looks ten times cleaner and brighter over there already.