Making it our own

It has been a crazy last week and I have had no time to post.
In order to prove to you that this is not because I have been sitting around eating bon bons, I will try to get you up to speed on what we have been doing.

Janet decided to let us do our own painting at the house. This is great because it means that we can pick whatever colors we want. It also means that we have our work cut out for us. Man, the place needs some paint. Tuesday Tim and I went to the house and took care of the kitchen. At first we didn't think the color yellow in the kitchen was too bad. Hey, we like yellow for a kitchen. However, the previous yellow was so hot and intense that after about 4 minutes of standing in the room one could feel agitated enough to want to rip the heads off of small animals. SO, that needed to be taken care of. We had a gallon left of the yellow Tim had used a year or so ago for my parents kitchen. That made it much more comforting. We also cleaned up the molding and wainscotting with a fresh coat of white.

The kitchen, ahhh, that was the easy part. Now on to the dining room and living room, which as you saw earlier, without furniture could be interchangable due to the fact that they were painted exactly the same. Which would be a lovely light eggshell on the walls and, as my father and I aptly named it, trim coated lovingly with a color that can only be described as "Kangaroo Poo". Yeah, that had to go.

Thank goodness for retirement. My Dad was able to come and help me and once Tim and my Mom had finished with their days, they came to lend a hand as well. We selected a very light yellow, almost white, to paint the trim, for the living room. The walls will be a light blue which will compliment our new furniture (I didn't forget to fill you in on the whole "how we quickly filled it up" portion of my last post. Bare with me here, it will come.) We started that room first as not only does it have a lot of trim but also has the rather large bookcases to deal with. The previous owner of the house either had absolutely no color sense, or an odd sense of humor. I say this as the back of the bookcase, on the top portion only, was painted in what one would have to call Peppermint Green or Pepto Bismol green if it were green, you get the drift?
Here we are so you can see the progress...one coat of that yellow will not slay the Kangaroo Poo, we will need to do another coat!





We smartened up when we did the dining room next. We put primer on the Kangaroo Poo to help cover that. It worked much better.



Both the front and back doors have screen doors that SLAM! For me, hearing a door slam is the feeling that some get when fingernails run down a chalkboard! Tim is taking care of that for us.


The next day I painted the dining room trim, well, most of it, with white. Man, there is A LOT of trim!
From there, it was onward and outward. We left Friday afternoon with a 16' Ryder truck and the trusty moving team of Daddy, Tim and Kay and headed for Brooklyn.
That will be next, but for now I need to go eat breakfast and get ready for another fun filled day of moving...