Changing Colors for Better Sleep
We cannot remodel the master bathroom because of the Santa Clara County Department of Planning’s inability to do its job in a timely fashion. This…
Tag: Painting
Round Table Tale
Early last year I found an interesting auction listing at a house in Connecticut with whom I’d done business in the past. When the item…
Related to the Great Room: Kitchen Touch-ups
While painting the great room, one extra thing our painter tackled for us was covering patched areas in the kitchen–where the old furnace register once…
Making the Great Room Great–Footnotes on Molding
Perhaps my favorite detail in the great room is the very subtle change in the molding. Backing up a bit to tell the story… For…
Making the Great Room Great–Before and After Painting
Some before and after shots of the foyer and great room, once the painters were done but before any furniture was put back. Even sans…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Four: Painting
As anyone who has painted a room (myself included) knows, prep work is what takes the most time. Once everything was prepped and primed, the…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Three: Priming
Once the dropcloths and plastic sheets were taped into place, the painters got busy. The four interior doors were removed from their frames for painting,…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Two: Paint Prep
In mid-August 2019, our regular house painter slotted some time to paint the great room. There was much prep work to be done–the old furnace…
Making the Great Room Great, Step One: Deciding on Paint
Once the great room floors had been refinished and the chimney column stripped of paint, it was time to make the room our own. I…
Exterior Tidying
There were no winter rains in December 2018, so we asked our favorite painter to get some much-needed exterior painting done. As mentioned numerous times…
Touching up some leaves
Shortly after the floors were done and the boys moved back into their place, I retouched the trees I painted on the walls a couple…
Guest Room Makeover
Since all the furniture had been moved out of the guest room to allow for furnace work, I took the opportunity to paint that space…
Exterior Repairs Prior to…Gutters!
In January 2017, we had to address the fascia, as we knew when we bought the place there were pockets of dry rot. We wanted…
Fast Kitchen Makeovers, Part 2
The last post covered the simple fan controller changes we did in the kitchen, which got me thinking about the powers of Amazon and the…
Painted Hallway and Bath
After just a few days the painters were done, and I spent a day putting things back together–books on the bookcases, rocks in the china…
Interior Walls (The Bird Space): Finishing Touches
To give the alcove a better sense of space, I framed the archway by painting two trees. After painting the trunks and branches, I then…
Interior Walls: Painting
1. Once the trim was masked and drop cloths laid, it was time to get rolling with the paint. Since there were only two walls…
Interior Walls: Prep Work
In addition to the big exterior projects, we’ve managed to complete some interesting interior work. In January I set about painting the boys’ space in…
Final Blue Room Pics
Here are the before shots, followed by that shot or a similar one that was loaded into the Sherwin Williams Color Snap App for a messy mockup,…
Painting Update: The trim is now done
More time was spent painting what was the purple room, but now is the blue room. Here are a few pics after the first coat on the trim.…
More on the painting
The purple room is now blue! It took 2+ coats of paint, plus 2 coats of primer, but it’s looking so much nicer. Next up,…
The end of the purple
As written about earlier (here and here), the spare bedroom was an atrocious purple with lots of unsealed nail holes, screws embedded in the walls…
Purple Update
During spells of yecchy weather, I’ve been prepping the purple bedroom so it can be repainted. All the holes–and there were lots of them as…