Well, the painting of the walls is done. You’ll notice that the painting of the baseboards is not done, so they look less than tidy, and the outlets haven’t been changed to white yet, but everything in its time. The before, a sort of taupe color: The shelves that had to go: And the gash [...]
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One Guest Room Painted!
Posted in Before & After, Guest rooms, Painting on February 8, 2011 |
Update: The Piano Room
Posted in Before & After, Current Affairs, Painting on December 16, 2010 |
We’re starting to call rooms by the name of what’s in them, and the piano is staying in one room, no matter what may change around it, mostly because it took two big guys who have moved pianos for 15 years half an hour to get it around the corner. Mostly they were grateful that [...]
Update: The Treadmill Room
Posted in Current Affairs, I Need a Nap, Painting on November 26, 2010 |
The treadmill room is a work of something-or-other that definitely doesn’t count as art. The carpet is a sort of a sandy-beige, and the shelves-upon-a-shelf are slabs of wood laid across bricks, with the wood and the bricks painted a bright blue. I had to move some of those bricks for the first time last [...]
Update: The Piano Room
Posted in Current Affairs, Painting, Plans on November 22, 2010 |
We’re getting the piano room ready to paint, so the other day I emptied the filing cabinet and moved it out of the closet so I could pull up the last bit of dusty rose carpet and purple baseboards. The pink carpet, by the way, had all kinds of stains all over the back of [...]
Done!
Posted in Leave It Alone, Painting on November 4, 2010 |
Room #1, painted! Done, except for photos, which aren’t turning out well because I’ve forgotten how to reprogram my camera settings, which are set for cloudy garden photos. Anyway, here’s the closest picture we’ve got to the actual color of the room so far. It’s Havana Cream by Behr, looks most yellow at night and [...]
True Renovations
Posted in Current Affairs, I Need a Nap, Painting, The Inexplicable on November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Nothing quite turns out like you thought it might or goes according to plan. We painted our first room at 963 and then this happened. The paint peeled all the way down to the bare drywall. The best we can figure is that the drywall must have recently been replaced and hadn’t been primered, because [...]
The Painting Games
Posted in Before & After, Painting on November 1, 2010 |
The painting has begun! Room #1: We’re on our way from a pinky flesh-color to a beamy yellow (better photos to follow hopefully).
Let the Painting Begin
Posted in Current Affairs, I Need a Nap, Painting on October 22, 2010 |
We’re almost ready to paint here at 963. We took out the carpet and baseboards in one little room, picked paint colors after much discussion, filled in the holes, sanded them smooth, and are just about ready to scrub the walls. After that, paint! And after that? Flooring! And after that? Two more rooms to [...]
How to Paint a Plywood Subfloor
Posted in Before & After, Floors, Painting on July 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday the mystery project was revealed – we painted the plywood subfloor in the outdoor room! Here’s what we did from start to finish. I chose Benjamin Moore Porch & Floor paint in Patio White for the floor. It’s an oil paint, which wasn’t too bad to work with because it’s an outdoor room and [...]
The Mystery Project Revealed: How to Paint a Plywood Subfloor
Posted in Before & After, Floors, Painting on July 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Now that I’ve built this mystery project up, it seems a bit anticlimactic to tell you what it is. By this time, I probably should have built a garage, but what I actually did was paint a plywood subfloor in the outdoor room. TA-DA! The outdoor room is the room below the deck that’s screened [...]
