Mar 9 2009

Master bedroom - repainted

It’s taken way longer than it should have, but I’ve finally finished painting the “master” bedroom. I put this in quotes because it’s as small as the other bedroom, it just has a french door to the back deck.

When we bought the house, the color was a very dark blue. When you’d turn on the light, it felt like the light was being swallowed up.

Dark room

Dark room

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Mar 9 2009

Pruning

I spent part of this weekend pruning. I ended up filling the entire green waste can and didn’t get close to finishing. I took a picture of the bushes in the front. It cracks me up. At least half our house looks lived in!

Half-pruned

Half-pruned

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Feb 23 2009

Living room wall

Patching - Early stages

Patching - Early stages

In the living room, we had a few places that needed patching.  Millou (our agent) recommended Peter as the master texture/patching guy.  He came by on Thursday, and I showed him what needed to be done.

On Friday I left him in the house and when I came back, I found a lot more patching than I realized was required.  (Our sheet rock is starting to buckle and seperate, and these places needed to be scraped and patched.)

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