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上次寫了個陽台鋪地毯的帖子（http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200907&postID=10779），被這裏的網友們損的是無地自容，讀完了跟帖，就想去揭掉那個可惡的地毯，可惜，咱老美的產品還真有個保質期，地毯粘上就揭不下來，終於理解了什麽是一失足成千古恨。
陽台的事先按下不提，糟蹋完了陽台，就該玩室內了，總想著堤外損失堤內補，這不，又愛上了室內油漆。
美國這裏在房間牆上刷塗料真好，由於環境幹淨，牆上的塗料本來也不會太髒，哪裏有破損，有髒，就在那裏補補塗料，幹後，煥然一新，且不著痕跡。
塗抹前
剛塗抹時
塗料徹底幹後
刷塗料時，切記要用同樣顏色標號的塗料，不可存放太久，這就是上次因存放較久產生的顏色偏差。
不過，也無需太擔心，隻要再用適當的塗料一蓋，又是幹幹淨淨，省事不累，精妙之處，就在於此。
嘿！這不是寫給太太的對聯嗎，鋪在地上用於防止油漆滴落，保護地毯，什麽時候地毯變得比夫妻情誼更重要了，整個一斯文掃地嗎。“三生有幸緣未盡；一世無求願已足”，話說回來了，能為太太幹點家務，也算是有幸吧。
刷完牆後，意猶未盡，後院裏，支個架子就開油裝修材料，起早貪黑的，隻圖個涼快。
在院子裏麵油完漆，就將裝修木條一條條地晾在那裏，鋪排的簡直就像以前戰爭期間，八路軍野戰醫院中到處晾曬的紗布。
原本四角四棱，光禿禿的牆麵，有點像隻穿了鞋的裸體。
按照模式裝修，先釘上個Chair Rail，好像穿上了短褲。
再釘上個Crown Molding，帽子也戴上了，衣服穿不穿的，先就遮住了三點。嗨嗨，居然像模像樣的一小裝修就完成了，雖然安裝是別人幹的，但油漆卻是自己來的，又省了錢，又產生了成就感，可謂一舉兩得。
說到在下的油漆史，還真有點小故事，想當初在咱大婚前（剛看過大秦帝國，那裏說結婚，都叫大婚），搞到一套小房，煙筒還沒設好，可為了盡快油漆家具，趕上婚期，也顧不了那麽多了。硬將蜂窩煤爐點著，隻要不冷，油漆幹的快就行，結果差點沒煤氣中毒，今天咱的這點癡呆（去給陽台鋪地毯）也許就是那時候落下的。
記得國內最早時不玩塗料，叫粉刷，是用水將整塊的牆粉泡開後刷在牆上。國內的衛生狀態確實不敢恭維，粉刷幾年後，就算每年掃牆，也會整體變的很黑，再加上牆皮脫落，非要全部重新刷一下不可，要想如這裏一樣，僅僅在某處補刷子，那是絕對不可能，如真這麽幹，後果肯定是在‘黑’牆上有一片片白色的補丁，效果大概比不刷還差。在國內粉刷房間可是個大工程，要將所有的家具都挪至房子中間並蓋上報紙等物，用報紙疊個船型帽，帶在頭上，擋住濕漉漉的牆粉或塗料往頭上滴。幾個人將幾間房間刷完，家具挪來挪去，得要兩天，人整個要虛脫了。後來雖也用上了塗料，跟這邊的差不多，但也要全部來，想偷懶，隻補刷子，辦不到。
絮絮叨叨地，像是在憶苦思甜，但無論如何，我真的喜歡在美國這裏油牆，因大環境衛生好，簡單、不累。
謝謝！
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.