Catching Up

Mac and I are near then end of what has been a year and a half of one house project after another.  We're both pretty burnt out from working on the house but there always seems to be one more thing that really ought to be done . . . never the less, here are a couple of photos from the last two major projects we plan to undertake for a while.

Yellow

Back in November, I blogged about Mac repairing the ceiling of this room and installing a fan.  That was just marvelous.  However, once you put up new drywall on the ceiling, it needs painting.  Since you've got to joint compound the joints, sand and paint . . . wouldn't it just make sense to do the walls . . . and maybe spruce up those (really lousy) cabinets . . . I mean, the doors don't even work right . . .

That's how these things escalate.

It finally looks great. The cabinets are actually the same ones from when we moved in with new custom-made doors (Mac, again).

Green

This is the room we refer to as "the green room."  When we first moved here we painted it a mint-ier shade of green that I never like but Mac likes "having a green room" so, the green room it remains.

For years, this was an office.  When we started renovating the basement, it became Tom's bedroom for a couple of months (yep, a full size bed takes up the whole thing).  After that, it stored to-be-installed kitchen cabinets for several months and random stuff for several month after that. The plan has been to make it a guest room. 

Before we moved into this house, we had only 30 days to get the place livable (It was a rental unit for many decades and took a real beating.  I seriously envy the woodwork of some of our neighbors houses - the whole block started out identical in 1917.).  At the end, we ran out of time to do things like paint the woodwork.  The walls and ceiling in this room needed quite a bit of repair they never got that first time around. 

It's darn presentable now.

*The doll was my mom's as a kid. It's basically the size of a 6 month old child (of course, significantly lighter being hollow in parts and stuffed with cotton in the rest.) She's in need of a bit of doll doctoring from aging plastic limbs and a half-century old skull fracture.  We're not all that sentimental about this stuff so she could also use a new home if anyone can suggest one (perhaps with a doll-nurse hobbyist?).

Comments

[Pamela]

What materials are you using? And, how do you protect Bug from harmful fumes?

[Jen M.]

We use a low VOC paint that we order from a company in Florida. The difference is amazing. When we were doing the basement, we ran out of ceiling white on a day we had friends over painting so someone popped over to the hardware store for a regular gallon - never again. Still, we keep the bird on a separate floor and ventilate well.