Painting Elsa's Room, Life

Elsa has been smoking in this room for quite a long time, so all the walls and woodwork became dirty and reddish-brown.  So Dan-san decided to paint the room.

 

The top two photos are the dirty walls

These two photos are the best effort to paint by Dan-san and Hiroko.  They painted twice.

These are the necessary things – paint, paint brushes, paint pans, lots of rags, plaster, lots of old newspaper, old sheets, and big plastic sheets

These newer paints wash off with water, so no need to have turpentine to wipe off any more.

All the furniture and things moved to the dining room.

Start to paint

Dan-san asked God to protect him from falling down from the ladder.  He put plaster on the ceiling because the ceiling wall was cracking and pilling.  Now, he would start painting the ceiling, and Hiroko did lower part of the wall.  It took us all day to finish.

But the finishing was not satisfied, so Dan-san bought another can of the same paint and painted twice.

Now, changing the rooms:

Elsa’s bed room is now in the small room by the kitchen.

The room with the just finished paint becomes the computer room.

Well, it is very good.

Hiroko wondered when the paint was discovered.  As usual, Hiroko went in the internet. 

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Paint has been very useful for many ways, cleaning outside and inside walls of buildings, using for decorative ways and advertising ways, preventing leak the water, etc.  After the paint Hiroko has always thought about the Tent made by Israelites under the instructions of Moses.

Those instructions written in the Chapter 24 – 26 of Exodus in the Bible give Hiroko goose pimples with surprising and amazing. The Tent was used by God to meet the people.  God came down to the Tent and talked to Moses and people.  The Tent made with fabrics, thread, woods, gold, silver, iron, bronze, etc.  Hiroko loves to imagine how beautiful the Tent was.  It might truly be the beautiful Tent for God existing in there.

Hiroko looked and found on the Japanese and English Internets about paint, questioning by whom, at where, what year, etc.  Hiroko couldn’t find any of that information on the English Internet.  The most English internet articles mentions that paint has been used at many counties for the long period time.  On the Japanese internet, many articles mention Japanese special paint, Shikkui and Toryo, but Hiroko found one interesting article at the web address www.asahitosou.co.jp/history.htm.  In the beginning of the article at the web-site mentioned that the origin of paint might be in the Bible.  Noah used animal fat to make the Ark, and the fat might become paint.

Thanks to the founders of the paint..  Elsa’s room became very beautiful, now.