Color me mud

While I was visiting friends recently we watched their neighbor speed paint the trim on his house. It was pretty inspiring. About a month earlier my neighbor had given the outside of my house a concrete skim coat and it was drying a little blotchy so when I got home I decided I should have a speed paint session of my own.

Before and afters below.

Just after Thanksgiving, 2006. Way before I bought the house. That tree, by the way, is gone gone gone. So is the green door, the awning, the flag, the plastic chair and the chain link fence.

From the real estate listing in June, 2010

Getting a little grungier last year. But those flowers were pretty.

Skim coat applied.

And the final layer.