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上次写了个阳台铺地毯的帖子（http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200907&postID=10779），被这里的网友们损的是无地自容，读完了跟帖，就想去揭掉那个可恶的地毯，可惜，咱老美的产品还真有个保质期，地毯粘上就揭不下来，终于理解了什么是一失足成千古恨。
阳台的事先按下不提，糟蹋完了阳台，就该玩室内了，总想着堤外损失堤内补，这不，又爱上了室内油漆。
美国这里在房间墙上刷涂料真好，由于环境干净，墙上的涂料本来也不会太脏，哪里有破损，有脏，就在那里补补涂料，干后，焕然一新，且不着痕迹。
涂抹前
刚涂抹时
涂料彻底干后
刷涂料时，切记要用同样颜色标号的涂料，不可存放太久，这就是上次因存放较久产生的颜色偏差。
不过，也无需太担心，只要再用适当的涂料一盖，又是干干净净，省事不累，精妙之处，就在于此。
嘿！这不是写给太太的对联吗，铺在地上用于防止油漆滴落，保护地毯，什么时候地毯变得比夫妻情谊更重要了，整个一斯文扫地吗。“三生有幸缘未尽；一世无求愿已足”，话说回来了，能为太太干点家务，也算是有幸吧。
刷完墙后，意犹未尽，后院里，支个架子就开油装修材料，起早贪黑的，只图个凉快。
在院子里面油完漆，就将装修木条一条条地晾在那里，铺排的简直就像以前战争期间，八路军野战医院中到处晾晒的纱布。
原本四角四棱，光秃秃的墙面，有点像只穿了鞋的裸体。
按照模式装修，先钉上个Chair Rail，好像穿上了短裤。
再钉上个Crown Molding，帽子也戴上了，衣服穿不穿的，先就遮住了三点。嗨嗨，居然像模像样的一小装修就完成了，虽然安装是别人干的，但油漆却是自己来的，又省了钱，又产生了成就感，可谓一举两得。
说到在下的油漆史，还真有点小故事，想当初在咱大婚前（刚看过大秦帝国，那里说结婚，都叫大婚），搞到一套小房，烟筒还没设好，可为了尽快油漆家具，赶上婚期，也顾不了那么多了。硬将蜂窝煤炉点着，只要不冷，油漆干的快就行，结果差点没煤气中毒，今天咱的这点痴呆（去给阳台铺地毯）也许就是那时候落下的。
记得国内最早时不玩涂料，叫粉刷，是用水将整块的墙粉泡开后刷在墙上。国内的卫生状态确实不敢恭维，粉刷几年后，就算每年扫墙，也会整体变的很黑，再加上墙皮脱落，非要全部重新刷一下不可，要想如这里一样，仅仅在某处补刷子，那是绝对不可能，如真这么干，后果肯定是在‘黑’墙上有一片片白色的补丁，效果大概比不刷还差。在国内粉刷房间可是个大工程，要将所有的家具都挪至房子中间并盖上报纸等物，用报纸叠个船型帽，带在头上，挡住湿漉漉的墙粉或涂料往头上滴。几个人将几间房间刷完，家具挪来挪去，得要两天，人整个要虚脱了。后来虽也用上了涂料，跟这边的差不多，但也要全部来，想偷懒，只补刷子，办不到。
絮絮叨叨地，像是在忆苦思甜，但无论如何，我真的喜欢在美国这里油墙，因大环境卫生好，简单、不累。
谢谢！
Tool Definitions:
DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly-stained heirloom piece you were drying.
WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned guitar calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Yeouw ...."
ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.
SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
WELDING GLOVES: Heavy duty leather gloves used to prolong the conduction of intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub you want the bearing race out of.
WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 194;189; socket you've been searching for, over the last 45 minutes.
TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
EIGHT-FOOT LONG YELLOW PINE 4 X 4: Used for levering an automobile upward off of a trapped hydraulic jack handle.
TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters and wire wheel wires.
E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps neatly off in bolt holes thereby ending any possible future use.
RADIAL ARM SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to scare neophytes into choosing another line of work.
TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 24-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A very large pry bar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle.
AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.
TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105 mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. The accessory socket within the base, has been permanently rendered useless, unless requiring a source of 117 vac power to shock the mechanic senseless.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids, opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws.
AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts which were last over tightened 30 years ago by someone at Ford, and instantly rounds off their heads. Also used to quickly snap off lug nuts.
PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. It is also useful for removing large chunks of human flesh from the user's hands.
DAMMIT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "DAMMIT" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.