Showing posts with label painting our house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting our house. Show all posts

December 12, 2008

The Painted Roof


The painters are now finished and all the scaffolding is gone. The color of the roof is called coconut shell brown. It reminds me of a Malaysian saying "like a frog under a coconut shell." It describes a person who hasn't seen or experienced much. So here we are, living under a coconut shell in Japan!

P.S. Little Brother thinks the roof looks purple. It does look different at different times of the day.


A view of our house from the street.

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December 11, 2008

The Box in the Garden


The painters brought this box with them.



Can you tell what is in it?
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November 19, 2008

Shower Caps for Cars

They had to wash the house again so they covered the cars again.


This is our car. Note the elastic band.



The workers strapped and taped this one on the car next to ours.


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November 17, 2008

Looks like Darth Vadar with hat pins


But, no, it's our house wrapped up for a bath and a paint job. The house was washed yesterday. The roof will be painted tomorrow. Why all the bars on top? Are they going to wrap the roof? I'm not sure. They used to spray paint onto houses, but I think they've stopped doing it that way. Maybe we'll find out tomorrow. If I can make it outside to take a picture!


This is the view from the street. When the workers washed our house, they put huge shower caps on the cars in the parking lot behind it. They will probably do that again tomorrow. Today they taped around the windows and shutters.



This is the view from across the field. We have to keep the shutters closed. We don't have shutters on every window. The cats and dogs are bouncing off the walls with men walking the planks around the house outside the second floor. It's a circus under this tent. But it's not fun!



This is the view at the front gate. That's the top of a car. The white round thing is the light on the gate. That gives you an idea how tall the house is!

P.S. They used brushes to paint the house and they didn't wrap the roof.

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November 15, 2008

Scaffolding

Workmen have been putting scaffolding around our house for the past two days. They will put cloth on it. Then they will wash the house before they paint it.



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