Getting the house painted in Seminyak Bali

Its been over a year since I had the house painted, and today the painters came over for a tour of duty. My landlord Nyoman, doesn’t want to pay for either the paint, or the labor, but I figured its worth it, as the place will look better.

My brother in law works at a paint shop, but his price are the same as the one up the road. I think I know what’s going on there, but in Bali, people are always looking to make a couple of bucks. The ladies who painted the house last time did a good job and are very experienced. They showed up today with their ladders, scrapers and poles. Wasting no time they sandpapered some of the flaking paint away and soon had 5 kilos of white paint spread over the walls. I picked up another can for 55,000rp on upper Jl. Seminyak. We also have 3 cans of blue paint, I’m going to color the ugly grey wall blue, let’s see how that looks! The ladies are charging 45,000rp a day each, but the way they work it won’t take long.