home improvement - Growing Old Disgracefully

"Spackle"

fini

Published on March 20 2007

Well, it's sorta fini, lol. There are a couple more pics on the Flickr site, too. What do y'all think of some art tile to cover those yucky black bricks on the hearth? I've been trying to figure out how to get them clean again, but my mother suggested...

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The agonizing is done

Published on March 19 2007

Well, at least it's partly done. I'm sure there is plenty more agonizing in my future. This is after the first coat; it looks to me like it will definitely need a second coat. I love it. There is color in the house!! Yes, to answer your question, that...

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I swear...

Published on March 19 2007

....my ceiling was not this shade of brown when I started painting this morning. Of course, now that I'm old and (getting) farsighted, maybe I just didn't notice. Ten-foot ceilings *are* kinda far away, right?? Yeah. That's my story and I'm sticking to...

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more paint pics

Published on March 16 2007

Anybody out there think that maybe I'm obsessing about this just a *teensy* bit too much? Ok, left to right: I ragged the dark rust over yesterdays' gawdawful orange. I liked it, but not enough to do the whole wall that way. Next up is the deep rust color,...

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Terracotta and Taupe, my a$$

Published on March 15 2007

More like Blaze Orange and Pinkish-Gray, if you ask me..... I hate 'em BOTH. Back to the paint chips. I wanted deep rust and a tan. Instead I get something that looks like a fake-tan-from-a-bottle and a color that looks like my locker at work. Yuck. This...

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Another Room down.....

Published on March 6 2007

Nobody is going to recognize this place by the time I get done. :-D Yes, yes, I know. There is painting to be done here!!

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The "office" is lookin' good

Published on March 4 2007

...just in time for class beginning tomorrow morning!! (I'm itching to get back at it.) Listen to me, lol..... "office". 8-| How highfalutin' do I sound? How about "original 1920's parlor formerly used as a heavily curtained bedroom now returned to its...