Lori’s hearing problem has caused many changes in our household, and we’ve figured out ways to work around most of the problems that it causes. Hanging wallpaper isn’t one of them. It’s very hard to do sign language when both …
Today Lori and I started in on woodgraining the office woodwork. This was one of those rare painting projects that I enjoyed her help. Not only did it add variety having two different people painting, we also learned tricks from …
Last night Larry Martin came over to give us a quick demonstration of his graining technique. He makes it look so easy. We’ll find out this weekend when we try it outselves. As Lori noted though we have a nice …
The last bit of pink has finally been banished from my office. I still need to do a second coat on the trim and then let that dry for several weeks before I can start doing the graining. But that …
Larry Martin, who grained our parlor and the Main Street Studio, has been busy so I’m going to take a stab at doing the woodgraining myself. First step is to paint the woodwork with the undercoat, which in this room …
After a couple of coats of the Clay Pot, it was time to paint the bottom section which is getting treated with a darker terra cotta they call School House Brick. The picture rail has also received it’s touch of …
Those of you who have visited my childhood room know I had a thing for orange back then. I guess in some ways I still do. Although this orange is more subdued than the bright orange the 70s were famous …
Bit by bit my office at home is becoming less pink. That’s a very good thing. Finally got all the walls fixed after removing the old wallpaper so it was time to prime.
We pulled up the old carpet in the office room today and found a layer of particle board under that. As we pulled up the particle board, we found that the original flooring was in pretty good shape, which was …
The biggest chore I had for today was redoing some of the electrical in my office at home. Like the garage, I’m finding that the electrical in the house must have been done by an amateur, with no knowledge of …
I was thinking there wouldn’t be much to redoing the office because it was pretty much cosmetic. However, when we got the old wallpaper off it was obvious we had had some water damage under the window. It was hard …
Phil came back today to put the finishing touches on the ceiling. We were trying to decide what paper to put in the cove when his wife Diane suggested the fill we used in the bay window. Not only did …
Once they finished putting up the borders, it was very apparent that the light fixture is going to have to be moved so that it will be visually centered with the wallpaper, even if that means it won’t really be …
In addition to the ugly pink walls, the office also had a very ugly green ceiling. About half of it was covered by paint last month, but today the fun part started. Phil and Diane came over and started putting …
I spent the whole weekend stripping the wall paper in the room that’s going to be my office. Got rid of the ugly black, pink and green wallpaper, only to reveal beautiful pink walls. I can’t wait until that bit …
Working on my room at home, trying to get it ready in time for moving the office back home. Here’s the ceiling medallion that will be going in that room. I took this picture so I can experiment with the …
The rain continued today so it was a perfect day to finish up the crown molding project in the music room. Previously I put up the middle section, and today I put up the top and bottom sections. Everything went …
Well one thing breaking my toe last week did was to motivate me to install the molding in my room so it wouldn’t be a hazard in the hall anymore. Now that I have a compound miter saw I could …
