Yes, we’re moving up in the world. We’ve now got overhead lighting in the living room and the bedroom, without any 80’s overhead fans attached, and WITH A SWITCH! Yeehaw. Because the old knob and tube “knobs” are still in the wall behind plaster and lathe, it’s not easy fishing wire around without getting caught […]
Category Archive: First-Floor Basics
Oooh, overhead lighting
A glimmer of hope
Everyone knows our floors are a mess. What you may not know is how badly this sometimes depresses me. Mostly because, no matter what we do to to the interior decor, the floors stare back at me in all their paint-spattered, buckled, worn out glory. There is no escaping them. The other day, I decided […]
Living Room, Before & “During”
Thought I’d make myself feel better by posting a before and “during” (because of course, there’s always more work to be done to ALL our rooms) of our living room. It’s not great now, but it is MILES away from where it started……. For two young newlyweds on a budget, paint is the best thing […]
Living Room, Before & “During”
Thought I’d make myself feel better by posting a before and “during” (because of course, there’s always more work to be done to ALL our rooms) of our living room. It’s not great now, but it is MILES away from where it started……. For two young newlyweds on a budget, paint is the best thing […]
Odds n’ Ends
Another week has flown by…. we’ve been hopping from project to project, including Teague’s new business (which is really taking off!). I promised a photo of the newly repainted living room, so here’s a comparison shot – you can see how much louder the first color was: I like the new color much better, and […]
Hating on my living room
We’ve had our living room walls patched and primed for about a month. The glaring whiteness was getting to me (I’m a big fan of color), but I tried to hold off on painting because we have many half-done projects I could be busy finishing. Yesterday, my need for change got the better of me […]
Reparing giant bulging holes in the wall
A few weeks ago, I got this undeniable urge to give our living room some love. It’s the room we spend most of our free time in, but we’ve spent very little time fixing it up. It wasn’t a quick-fix room, so it just got ignored. The huge bulging cracks and holes were artfully hid […]
More demolition (we’re on a roll!)
Normal 20-something couples spend their Friday nights going to nice dinners, watching movies, hitting the bars… but oh, not us. No, we spent our Friday night swinging sledgehammers in the living room. It all started when I brought home a funky green velvet couch from the Rescue Mission. The conversation that followed went something like […]