Making the Great Room Great, Step Four: Painting
Making the great room great: painting.
Category: Interior
Sunday Panorama
This week’s Sunday panorama from around Purgatory.
Making the Great Room Great, Step Three: Priming
Making the great room great: priming.
Making the Great Room Great, Step Two: Paint Prep
Making the great room great: prep work, and deleting the sconces, an old thermostat and a phone jack.
Making the Great Room Great, Step One: Deciding on Paint
Making the great room great: deciding on paint, including a metallic finish.
Sunday Panorama
This week’s Sunday panorama from around Purgatory.
More Furniture Finds
More auction finds: a deco side table, a Stein daybed and a wooden rocking chair.
Blue Room Refresh, Part 2
Blue room refresh: Agent Smith assembles the Murphy bed while I’m away.
Lick the Cookie
Agent Smith demonstrates his “lick the cookie” patent.
Console Tables
Finding the right console tables for the foyer.
Teaky Teak
Repairing the teak floors with a box of matching parquet the previous owners left behind.
Craigslist, Chicago, and Lumber Liquidators
Our discontinued bamboo flooring, found again thanks to Craigslist and a friend in Chicago.
Under the House
A video tour of what’s under the house now that the furnace work is done.
The Pantry Revisited
Putting the pantry back together after the furnace work, with the shelves now secured for earthquakes.
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 1
Getting off the diesel: decommissioning our twin 1966 furnaces, starting in May 2018.
Replacing the Second Water Heater
The second water heater gets replaced, and now we’d like to move it somewhere more useful.
Last Studio Details: Blinds and Curtains
Motorized blinds and heavy drapes go up, and the studio project is finally done.
Studio Painting
Painting the studio a soft yellow and bright orange.
Sealing and Lighting the Studio
The studio saga nears its end: sealing up the space and adding lights and a pretty yellow rug.
Fast Kitchen Makeovers, Part 3
Fast kitchen makeovers: a simple shelf and coat hooks by the kitchen’s swing door.
Fast Kitchen Makeovers, Part 2
Fast kitchen makeovers: brightening up the brown kitchen without spending a small fortune.
Fast Kitchen Makeovers, Part 1
Fast kitchen makeovers: replacing the Hampton Bay fans’ chunky remotes with proper wall switches.
Finishing Touches in the North Office
Sanding and repainting my office’s wooden blinds to match the new rose walls.
Office Recoloring
Repainting my office in two shades of rose, done while I was on vacation.
Revamping and Repotting
New Lechuza trough planters for the original planters by the front door.
Finishing the Kitchen Chairs
New cushions, new glides and fresh paint for the metal kitchen chairs.
June 2017 Walkthrough!
A walkthrough video shot in June 2017, finally narrated and posted.
Purgatory Printing
Finishing the guest bedroom, and the north hall, with prints of photos taken here at the ranch.
Stuff on the walls
New prints in the hallways, posted while I sit through jury duty.
What Lies Beneath
Getting the debris and fallen insulation cleared out of the crawlspace under the house.
Fire in the hole
The old brass floor boxes in the great room, and why water and electricity don’t mix.
The Kitchen Table
My grandmother’s old kitchen table and chairs, finally refinished and in our kitchen.