Painting

Oscar.  Mike.  Golf. I haven't written anything in this blog since JULY of last year.No, I am not dead.   In fact, I am feeling great and raring to get to work on Sadie! Time away was crucial to break a...

This may not be a big deal to most of you. HOWEVER: for four years I have been using a flash light to search through the four cabinets that make up my pantry. So a couple of weeks ago, I...

How can someone be so bad at hanging wallpaper, yet so confident to glue the hell out of it. I’m removing wallpaper from the upstairs bathroom this weekend. My mood won’t improve. Update: March 27, 2019 After six weeks of...

I finally got my beautiful piece, created by ceramic/mixed media artist, Linda Berman, (one of my favorite artists, ever!) put up in the breakfast nook today. Can you believe I bought this piece months before we bought this house? I...

It's super dark in here with the shades down and the lights off, but my son, Clayton's, room is mostly finished. No more pink flowery wallpaper and pink carpet. This looks like a room for a young man now. We...

Today's project: This bedroom was wallpapered with gak! It did cover some bad plaster, and the seams were well adhered. We stripped the paper from the rear wall which peeled pulled big gaps of old paint from the plaster. That...

It's almost pretty enough to leave this way....

Skim coated the walls in the breakfast nook this morning after we removed the old wall paper. The ugly papered over cracked plaster ceiling is covered. Now I just need to paint it and install the chandelier. I've been wanting...