Home improvement

[moonwise]

To borrow a word from British English, I am knackered.

The Q's came to help us paint the house, and we got two coats on the sitting room, the den, the guest room, and the desk room; two coats of primer and one of paint on the dining room; and one coat in the bedroom up to the top of the cathedral ceiling. The place is feeling more like ours now. It was just the four of us today, but yesterday my husband's cousin came by to help as well.

So far, we have a screaming yellow dining room that will look great with black and white toile curtains, a restful light grey guest room, a sunny yellow for the desk room, light sage green for the bedroom, and a grey-brown for the sitting room. Next on the attack list are the cave paintings (really) in the powder room. The previous owner was very into Native American designs and artifacts, and there are buffalo hunters over the toilet, handprints near the sink, and a perfectly awful wallpaper to complement. We already stripped the Kokopellis out of the kitchen.

The flooring arrives tomorrow, though how much help I'll be in that department is yet to be seen. It's taking all my good sense not to order the new TV. (Priorities, yo.)

Comments

[rydain]

We're going to eventually have a light sage green bedroom, too.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

It's a nice restful color! We picked "Rejuvenate" from Behr. (http://www.behr.com)

[rydain]

Great minds think alike. ^_^ That looks similar to the Benjamin Moore Thornton Sage I'm planning to use.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Looks like a lovely color! :) May you only need one coat.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Next on the attack list are the cave paintings (really) in the powder room.

XD I have a friend who paints murals for half of her living, and cave paintings are a fairly popular design of hers - you are not alone in buying a house with them!

It's taking all my good sense not to order the new TV. (Priorities, yo.)

I always thought that was the priority. When we moved into this place, the only things set up the first day beside the bed were the TV and associated computer....

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that so many people wanted cave art in their houses. If you lived in the Southwest especially, it would look quite nice! The only unfortunate part about the paintings is that they appear to be textured, and it's going to be very difficult to sand them down.

Gotta have the computer. The router will be the first thing set up, for sure.

[scathachdhu.livejournal.com]

Man, that's a lot of work, but I bet it feels good to get it done.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Every time we make some progress, something comes along to make it feel like we barely scratched the surface!