While we waited and waited for the new Studio windows to be manufactured and shipped out, I used the down time to have the same crew who painted our lovely new ladders paint a space inside the house.
Now I have tackled painting both the once-purple-now-blue-room and the boys’ space, but I didn’t want to spend a month or so with the north and linen hallways in chaos, so we decided to pay to have that space and a small half-bath painted by professionals.
So early one morning, the painters arrived and started the prep work. I had already emptied the bookcases and china cabinets and stored just about everything in the blue room so the painters just had to move things into the center of the hallway.
The first day was spent getting everything prepped for painting, though I assisted by excavating a very old phone jack from the wall. In the pictures below you can just make out an electrical outlet in the wall a few inches from the floor, behind the bookcases and to the right of the door into the blue room. It turns out the outlet was much more complicated than I originally thought, but after 20 minutes with pliers and a screwdriver, a large metal “thing” was removed.
Then our painters made a nice patch and sealed up yet another hole in the wall.
1-2. As mentioned, we were also having the linen hallway painted and this included the cabinet drawer faces and doors, so all the drawers had to be emptied and the cabinet doors removed. The door to the water heater closet was also removed so it could be painted to match. Since the Studio building was completely empty, our painters were able to use that space to paint the drawers and doors. And since we decided to play with colors in the space, we selected a very pretty pistachio green. The walls in both the north hallway and linen hallway were no longer going to be puke brown, but a nice green-tinged off-white.
3. A shot of the cabinet doors during painting.
4. Another of the drawers as they were drying in the downstairs studio room.
5. During this week of painting, the boys’ cages were moved out to the kitchen, and Thy was not terribly amused by the change in scenery but did enjoy seeing vultures soar past as they searched for fresh squirrel corpses.
6. Finally, a shot of the linen hallway prior to the walls being painted, but after the trim was done and the water closet door put back in place.
