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Me Musing .
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this week. . . August 7, 2009
Yowie! What
a whirlwind time! Escrow opened July 21st and closed July 31st at
9:13 a.m. and we were in the little cottage by 10:30 getting ready
to paint!
Bev, a friend
came over and decided we had to find out what was under the
living room carpet . . .
I had brought
along my 'wonder bar', a handy tool that I had bought when remodeling
the first little house here and before I knew it Bev had the carpet
up and exclaimed " fir flooring" . . .
I
was ecstatic! Then we decided to see what was under the lino that
ran from front door to the bedroom hallway . . . and it was more
wood, but with dried up old black stuff on the wood that had been
used to glue down the lino. Les, who happened to be in town on holiday
ran down to his house and grabbed a big scraper and spent the next
3 hours getting rid of the black dried-up stuff. What a guy!
It
was amazing how big the living room looked with just the expanse
of wood flooring.
Our
God-son Modesto came over that night and began painting the ceilings
for me as I can't do those anymore without lots of neck pain. I
could hardly wait to get started painting the next morning and began
in the bedroom.
The
colour is actually more a soft wheat gold than what it looks like
in the above photo. I did two walls a little darker and the rest
lighter . . .
And of course, I can't just change colours in the corner, I have
to do something interesting at the change-point!
Next
I moved to the living room and two very similar shades of sage green
which I love with the wood floor. If you squint your eyes and really
study the little wall to the right of the window you can barely
make out the zigzag design in the colour change! (Even in 'real-life'
most people miss it!!!!!)
A little more
pizazzzzzz
behind the front door
The colour I picked for the kitchen walls is an aqua and the cabinets
will be a little darker aqua with the door/drawer fronts a pearlized
aqua. Unfortunately before I can paint them (or the many doors and
door/window trim in the house) Eb has to sand sand sand as they
were painted years ago with high gloss enamel. I have never seen
a house with as many painted surfaces as this one has.
Looking from 'breakfast
room'
into living room . . . and
no, that's not an oversized can-opener on the wall!
It is the 'art-deco'
doorbell
(here with its cover on it)
This house was built in 1948
and has great 'bones'. Many of the
original fixtures are old, but stylish
and still in good condition . . . made
in USA and built to last!
I have more photos to take, but wanted to at least keep you posted
as to what we have been up to! I am really amazed at the 'pastel-ish'
colours that this house picked for itself. Not my usual rich tones.
I must have been having a pastel overdose, as I decided that one
small wall in the laundry should be orange; however, the paint computer
at Walmart must not have been calibrated correctly as the colour
that came out on the wall was really 'construction-vest orange'!!!!
I
can hardly wait to get up to the cottage in the morning to see if
I can mix a few colours together and get something more 'cottage'
and less 'construction'!!!!!!
Oh
. . . we have lots of deer here in Cheeseville and there are just
as many, if not more, walking the streets of Aetna! This big one,
I am sure, will leave town before hunting season. (I hope!)
He
likes to hang out between the back garage and neighbor's house.
Until soon,
Che'usa
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