please don't paint while dumb.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Ok, not all of them. But man; I have never seen as many half-assed interior paint jobs as I have seen in Somerville in the last week. Seriously bad paint jobs.

So, I implore you, people of Somerville (and anywhere, really, but man, the amount of crap work I've seen in Somerville astonishes me):

If you're not going to take the nails, let alone the thumbtacks out of the wall before you paint, just leave it, mmmkay? That also goes for taking the plates off your outlets, putting up masking tape, spackle the holes and sand them after, and all these basic things you will learn from 10 minutes of watching HGTV. Painting a room is not an easy job, and if you do it half-assed, you can do a lot of damage.

The room that I'm in right now, someone left one of those $5 wall mirrors on the wall, and painted around it.

Then when they moved out, the took it with them.

And yes, I did indeed just discover the room I'm moving into has painted over thumbtacks.

So, Tenants, I know it's not your property, you feel like, 'hey, I know, I'll paint it purple', and I'm cool with that. But if you can't do it properly, just don't do it, since someone else is just going to have to clean up after your damn mess.

I'm have to go spackle more now.