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Pretty speedy painters.
The color is a grey/gray but in certain light it looks purple. Here it looks a little blue. Hm.
The completed butcher block desk before I moved it into the office. I didn't attach the top until after I moved it since it's quite heavy.
During the installation of vinyl tile one learns that the perfectly smooth subfloor is far from smooth, corners are never exactly perpendicular, and opposite walls are not perpendicular.
this was 6 years ago. I was starting to feel bad during this cure, so I wanted to see what I started out with. I guess I have come a long way. I feel better now.....
I knew it had to happen... I've joked here before about how someday I was going to find the Crackheads'™ stash that they left behind. Well, I found drugs under the stove when I moved it to clean the side of the cabinet. Okay, it's just sinus medication, not something illicit, and there was also a not-worn-at-all potholder (not 'pot') back there.
There was so much pet hair under there that Cheddar thought he'd suddenly become the single father to a litter of kittens.
after a months-long struggle with lack of motivation and paint stripper, the bike room is painted! and the nasty carpet has been removed! now all that's left is to sand and paint the window frames, the windows themselves, pull & paint the baseboards, nail in some quarter round trim, and either re-finish the floor or call it 'done'.
We got a new bathroom set (shower curtain, rug, towels, etc.) for our guest bathroom a few weeks ago and decided we wanted to repaint the bathroom. We took the plunge yesterday and bought paint and Summer painted the bathroom all by herself.
This is one of the after pictures I took today.
I think one more quick coat of paint should be enough for the window. Last thing for this area is to sand down the patches from the removal of drywall anchors and paint the wall. Then we'll have one less eyesore left in this house.
My mother's first response to the pictures of our new house (two years
ago) was "Loose the wallpaper." We just started removing it last week...
only to find multiple layers of wallpaper... and unprimed plaster
underneath.
Message to anyone putting up wallpaper. Putting up a skim coat of
plaster to smooth the walls before putting up wallpaper is cool, but
paint on a coat of primer first. When you go to remove the wallpaper
years later, the water and wallpaper paste remover will turn the plaster
to mush. It is impossible to easily remove the wallpaper without having
to go back retexturize the walls. This is the third time I've had to
deal with it... and it's getting frustrating.
Our first big project is done!
This room is directly outside our bedroom. Of the tasks performed, we:
-Replaced light fixture with ceiling fan
-Replaced blinds
-Patched all holes and painted the walls "Kalamata"
-Replaced outlets and faceplates with white ones
-Installed recessed directional halogens and put them on a dimmer switch
-4"x3/4" baseboards
Another view of the home theater showing the can lights on. This is the only lighting circuit on right now, the rest will be hooked up later.