It's Sunday afternoon and I'm sitting on the sofa with a cuppa, watching the national voting results until Ray changes the channel for the soccer match in a few minutes. I'm taking a break from the painting today, I have some pretty hardcore cramps in both hands where the thumbs go down into the palms. So far we’re very pleased with how it’s turning out, but it’s taking quite some time to get done because we’ve been trying to pay attention to a lot of small details, and we’re also painting doors that we had to sand down, meaning they take quite a few layers of paint. Here are some “before” and “during” photos of what we’ve been doing. I’ll post “after” photos when we’re completely finished, hopefully by the end of this next week.
This is the hallway looking from our bedroom into the kitchen. The door on the left is the downstairs bathroom. We’re painting it red with white trim and all of the doors in the hallway will be white as well, which you can see in some of the photos (we only have 1 coat on 1 door thus far.)
These next photos are looking from the opposite direction, down towards our bedroom which is at the back of the house. There’s another hallway that goes off to the right and leads to the backdoor. We haven’t started to paint it yet because we’ve stuffed a lot of crap back there while we’ve been painting.
When you walked down this hall, it was so dreary and depressing! The idea now is to use the wall on the left to hang a lot of pictures of our family and friends. You cannot tell in this photograph, but to the right, before you get to the bathroom door is a large cubbyhole. We’re going to install shelving done in a dark wood with things like lamps, a radio, books, etc.. I really love how the red paint also makes that doorway kinda thing that hangs down from the ceiling really pop out now. We’re also going to have a shelf up there that you walk under when you go down that hallway. Our plan is that when we’re done with this project, we’re repainting the bedroom and moving our tv room down there.
The next photos are from the bathroom, which has always creeped me out because everything in it was white and clinical. Even up until Rita died, there was a white shower curtain hanging up in there. I started out painting the ceiling, but I don’t think I let it try enough before I taped it up so I could paint the walls. So now I have to go back and do a lot of touching up along the edges.
The problem with this color is that it doesn’t really match my shower curtain, which I didn’t buy very long ago. Getting rid of it is going to depress me because I love it. I might try to find some accessories that could tie the shower curtain and walls together, but I really don’t think it’s going to happen.
This is a wardrobe I stuck in there for all of our towels and such, and the weird thing at the top is a really tiny electric heater that actually does nothing for the room. I still need to get into the back of it with a small paintbrush.
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