Monthly Archives: June 2014

Bedroom – Before and After Painting

Published June 30, 2014

There are still several unfinished projects in this room, but until I get all those done, here are some before and after photos of the unpainted/painted walls.

Bedroom before painting Bedroom after painting

Above the bed, we plan to build…

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Finished Painting the Bedroom!

Published June 29, 2014

I finally finished painting the bedroom walls and the small closet, the casings, and the baseboard. I still plan to remove the doors, strip them down, and then paint them, and to paint the inside of our main closet.…

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Bedroom Painting Progress is Going So Slowly!

Published June 26, 2014

Got the priming done on the bedroom yesterday, and got the ceiling painted today. It looks so dark in these pics! Anyway, walls tomorrow, and hopefully the mini-closet and woodwork, too, but I’ve had so many distractions this week,…

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How to Organize Food in a French Door Refrigerator?

Published June 26, 2014

Well, this is challenging: trying to figure out where what foods should go in our new refrigerator (#firstworldproblems). I’m so glad they included two retractable shelves, or we’d have no place for tall stuff. We still have way…

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New Shiny Refrigerator

Published June 25, 2014

Woo-hoo! Our new refrigerator arrived today (during the storm). It’s so awesome; it beats the pants off of our crappy old white cheapest-refrigerator-available when we moved in. It has an icemaker, filtered water, freezer on the bottom, French…

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One Wall Primed — Woo-hoo!

Published June 23, 2014

Doing this kind of backwards…Got one wall primed and the window trim primed and painted yesterday. Funny how the flat trim on these windows disappears when primed. And then when painted, that wall looks so tiny!

These are the only…

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Still Prepping the Bedroom for Painting(!)

Published June 21, 2014

Day 3.5 of prepping 1 room to paint. Jeez, this part takes so long. Got the crack-patching done and retextured; pulled door casing off to do a little modification. Mostly did a lot of small wood-mongering on…

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Preparing to Paint the Bedroom with Vaulted Ceiling

Published June 20, 2014

I am embarking on the painting-the-bedroom project. So tired of white walls! We moved out all the furniture except the bed, as there really is no other place for it, especially if we still want to sleep in…