.

We chose a local company and our big barn will finally get some color in his cheeks.

An oil based stain was matched to baby barn’s red paint… and white trim will finish him off.

I’ve been waiting 8 years for this…  so, yay.

The painters showed up the other day to pressure wash off the black mold. They thought this would be a quick prep, saying it would only take a few hours.

.

.

10 gallons of bleach, one broken pressure washer, an auxiliary pump and 8 hours later…

.

.

They recalculated and said they wouldn’t be able to get it all off as promised.

Which we told them would be the case, as we’d tried ourselves and failed.

But they got a lot more than we managed, and it looks better.

Before :

.

.

After:

.

.

Before:

.

.

After:

.

.

Before:

.

.

After:

.

.

Of course they had to move all the trim wood we’d bought to do the porch, so this is now my afternoon cocktail view.

.

.

Not ideal.

.

.

But hopefully it’s more temporary than my husband’s so called temporary doors.