We still have lots of remodeling to do in our house, and I've been trying to get all the walls painted. Before we moved in, I painted nearly every wall and ceiling in the place, but I used a white primer/sealer, and not a finish coat of paint. We decided to do it that way so that all the walls could be painted without cleaning the paint sprayer, and so that I could paint the ceilings as well, which were a little dingy.
Since then, we painted three bedrooms, and the two bathrooms. We also recently painted the kitchen ceiling, but only because I tore it up when I changed the light fixture. The biggest room in our house, and the one we spent the most time in, was still white, and the primer isn't as durable as a finish coat of paint, in case you didn't know.
So, a few weeks ago, we picked out a paint color, bought a few gallons, and I started painting. Most of the living/great room's walls are now painted the color of burnt almond, I think is the color's name (think of the inside of an almond, not the outside). But I was putting off doing the last wall. The last wall is covered by our bookshelves, which means we would have to move lots of books, and the lightswitch is weird.
In about 1984, the owner of the home added an overhead light, so a new switch was added, but it was a single switch, next to the original switch, for the plugs along that wall. And then the wall was patched poorly, and a crack was obvious. The two switches bothered me, so I wanted to fix it anyway, but the bad patch and the crack made tearing up the wall much easier to justify to Kelsea. So last night, I tore up the wall a little (maybe a one square foot whole). The newspaper inside the wall from 1984 let me know that's when the change was made. I'm looking forward to fixing the wires tonight, and hopefully closing up the wall, too. I'm not looking forward to moving the other bookshelves, but that's what I'll have to do to be able to finish painting, and that was the whole point, so I guess I have to. I'll try to remember to take some pictures, so you can see the difference, and I didn't take an immediately before picture, so you might have to trust me that it was a bad patch job.
3 comments:
sounds nice. I love warm taupe-y colors in the main rooms. It always warms up the house :) our house was all periwinkle blue inside (even the blinds!) when we bought it and several tries later, we have stuck with a soft gold and a cinnamon colored accent wall for the house.
While fixing the wires Dee only got a minor shock. And I think I heard three loud pops accompanying bright sparks that I could see from the other side of our large room. I am proud to say I stayed relatively calm.
yes, only one minor shock. I thought there were only two loud pops, and I know that I only tripped two circuit breakers. Why they ran power from two separate circuits through a single lightswitch, I have no idea. I admit that I probably tripped the second one because I was being less careful after the first one blew, thinking that none of the wires were live any more. Silly me.
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