Photos Of Things That Need To Be Done
Michelle on Jun 20 2008 at 2:33 pm | Filed under: The House
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Yesterday, I made myself a big pitcher of this, and seriously got to work on the room that is the most formidable.
Sage loves bright colors, and painting it yellow didn’t take very long at all. Yesterday, I did finish the parts up by the ceiling and took down the tape. However, the worst is yet to come.
Windows. Sage’s room has six old-fashioned windows. Four of the panes are broken, so I need to have that addressed. I spent a lot of time removing those plastic things that hold up mini-blinds and scrubbing 10-20 years of filth off of the sills. I mean, that water in the bucket was black! Today, I will tape them off and start painting. I’ll have to do a coat with Kilz first, though, to control the mildew.
Then there are the doors. This house has so many doors! The kitchen alone has four. If you walk through the middle of my house it is like a labyrinth. You can take a shortcut to the bathroom by walking through my closet, which has two doors. It’s pretty cool, actually. What is ick is cleaning decades of dirt off of the doors. They also have spots of mildew, which I clean and then spray with bleach before painting. The musty smell that the house had is gone now!
There are ancient fixtures on the doors, some of which have had to be totally removed, due to missing parts. I’ve saved the ones I can, however. I’m going to have to fill in where it was with some putty and put in a new doorknob. I need to buy about six sets of doorknobs. Do you have any idea how expensive attractive doorknobs are? Jeez!
The hallway between Sage’s room and mine has this cool telephone nook, which appears to have been painted in the ’60s. I kinda like it, but it doesn’t go with the rest of the house. I don’t want to paint it white (boring) but I have to be careful with colors because I don’t want the hallway to be too dark. It’s a nice light aqua blue right now. I’m tempted to just leave it, at least for the time being. (Hey, nothing shows how times have changed like having a modem where one of those telephones with the dials used to sit!)
Now that I’ve moved (again), I’m really tempted to go ahead and get a new address label to go with my new address. Vistaprint has sent some good deals (a lot of it free plus shipping) to my inbox, and I really want some. Especially since I live on Magnolia Street. Isn’t that a great street name?
Still, what with having to go and buy a sack of doorknobs and all, I don’t even know if I want to pay shipping at this point. Maybe next month…
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I love the cheery yellow. What a lot of work (and expense) but very fulfilling to see AND smell the positive changes. Beautiful!
I’m not going to ask what you will be doing over the summer! Things are coming along nicely, though. Just pace yourself and quit when you are pooped.
Sounds like you’re having fun with all the decorating…must be pretty exhausting though and cleaning all that grime sounds pretty gross!
“You can take a shortcut to the bathroom by walking through my closet”
Just don’t watch any Hitchcock films before taking a shower…
I’m so excited to see all your progress! What a whole lot of work!
This is fun to watch the changes you make…one tip though, don’t do anything “for now I will do it differently later” because it will never get changed.
As for the telephone nook, I like the way it’s kind of a light teal (due to lighting) near the top of the picture but can see why you’re not a fan of the pastel green that it actually is.
My vote would be do a light teal for the wall and the inside of the cutout (where there is pink now) and use like an off-white for the frame/trim/shelf.