Our house…

I do not know exactly when this old house was built but the date carved on the cement by the car porch reads 1980…and in 1988, I bought this house from its previous owner and moved in.

We had to do a whole lot of things before we could do that and that included repainting the whole house and believe it or not, I had not repainted it since! It still looked ok…not faded, black  and moldy like some houses that I see – even after a couple of years. Well, finally, at long last, I got it done and my old house now has a new coat of paint…

The people were here for a week and I ended up almost hairless from pulling my hair out. I would have got people to come around and do some renovation to my house if I do not have this phobia of the mess those people would make and this repainting job only serves to reinforce my fear! It will take a while before I would be able to get my garden spick and span again, I’m sure…and in the meantime, all I can do would be to grit my teeth and bear with it.

I specifically left instructions to follow the original colours that I had before but I had chocolate before for the wall of the fence around the house – not this temple kind of red. O.k…at least they got the black for the metal part of the fence right. I asked them to paint it black following the colour that my neighbour has used but I did not ask them to colour anything grey…

And the frame around the doors and windows and the metal rods were all the same colour as the walls but just look at them now…

Sigh! I guess I will just have to get some paint myself and do my own touch-ups here and there…or if I’m lucky enough to strike it rich, I would buy a new house with one of those stunningly impressive modern designs. In the meantime, this is…our house.