Exterior Tidying

The winter rains did not show up in December 2018 and we were able to get our favorite painter in…

Touching up some leaves

Shortly after the floors were done and the boys had been moved back into their pace, I also retouched the…

Since all the furniture had been moved out of the guest room to allow for the furnace work, before moving…

Last January (2017) we had to address the issue of the fascia as we knew when we bought the place…

The last post covered the simple fan controller changes we did in the kitchen, which got me thinking about the…

After just a few days the painters were done and I spent a day putting things back together: books on…

To give the alcove a better sense of space, I set about framing the archway by painting two trees. After…

Once the trim was masked and the drop cloths laid, it was time to get rolling with the paint. Since…

In addition to the big exterior projects, we’ve managed to complete some interesting interior work. In January I set about…

Here are the before shots, followed by that shot or a similar one that was loaded into the Sherwin Williams Color…

The purple room is now blue! It took 2+ coats of paint plus 2 coats of primer, but it’s looking…

As written about earlier (here and here) the spare bedroom was an atrocious purple with lots of unsealed nail holes,…

When the weather isn’t so great and working outside is not feasible, I’ve been slowly prepping the purple bedroom so…