Suddenly, surely, wonderfully … Emerald Hill is becoming “done.”
All it took was nine hours, a crew of six, sandpaper, ladders, brushes, face masks — a several five-gallon buckets of Sherwin Williams primer and sealer. White.
Ranserve has been working since 1 June toward this day. The painters have taken over the house. The structural wounds are laboriously healed. The plumbing, electrical, HVAC, insulation, windows, framing, drywall are laboriously healed. All that work to save Emerald Hill from itself transforms with the tick of a compressor, the hiss of a hose, the click of a trigger, the stream of paint emerging from the tip of a spray gun.
It is magic.
Jacquela ducks out the side door off the kitchen, trying to avoid Steven’s camera. This is the “great room” — combination of family room and kitchen.The master bedroom, made into a white slate by primer.Late afternoon sunlight defining the master bath with crisp shadows on newly-painted walls and ceiling.The stairwell in late afternoon, all its structure wounds healed behind primer.One of the buckets of primer.Things to come #1 — the eggshell satin version of Sherwin Williams paint that tomorrow goes up on the walls and ceilings of the bathrooms.Things to come #2 — the flat version of the Sherwin Williams paint that will be used to paint almost all the walls.
