One of my projects has been converting one of the upstairs bedrooms into a large closet/dressing room for Chelsea. The room was originally green and possibly occupied by the evil twin girls from The Shining. You can judge for yourself: Chelsea picked out a bluish-grey Sherwin-Williams color called Ice Cube. When I started painting the …
I have no idea why but one of the previous owners installed an ever-stylish bathroom mirror over the fireplace. It had to go. I just needed to wait until the time was right. That time was this past weekend. Chelsea’s stepdad, Danny came for a visit and helped me remove it. Fortunately, it was only …
One of the serious downsides to selling most of our things and moving to Mexico was having to get rid of our plants. It has taken us three months, but we are finally at a place where we can start introducing them to our new house.
In preparation for the new exterior paint job, I have been making minor changes to the front porch and entryway. One of those was to replace the broken metal numbers on the door casing. I considered lots of options but ultimately settled on transom stickers which mimic the gold-leaf versions found on old houses and …
We are about two weeks away from the estimated time to begin repainting the exterior. All colors are by Sherwin-Williams. The body will be Basil (SW 6194). The off-white trim is going to be Natural Choice (SW 7011). The sashes, mullions, and doors will be English Ivy (SW 2935). Finally, the porch ceiling will be …
I ordered a 21-inch plaster ceiling medallion for the foyer. The already installed light fixture and its 9.75-inch metal medallion felt too small for the space. Apparently, there is a formula to determine the correct size for a room — the square footage of the room divided by seven. The result is the diameter (in …
What to do with a living room TV? We don’t watch a lot of television. We’ll pick a series and watch an episode a night, but we generally only actively use it an hour a day, if that. That’s why we started buying Samsung’s Frame line. It is a regular TV, but when it is …
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbes’ …
We moved into the house just in time for the Historic Downtown Art Walk. The city closes the main street so that vendors, food trucks, and bands can set up. It ran from 11 am to 4 pm and featured over 80 local artists. I was working on projects and couldn’t get free until about …