Not Entertaining, Part II
Greetings!
Our houseguest remains here, despite our boring ways, so not a whole lot got done in the last week. And that means this will be another short post.
We might be back to the regular chaos next week, but I don’t control that at this time. Still working out the details.
So, what happened this week?
Well, you might recall this, my old office:
I had a comment last week wondering if whatever had happened to the walls was a result of my moving out of the office. The commenter actually assumed that wasn’t the case, but I can see how she read it that way, so just to be clear…
That room was probably a kid’s space before we bought the house. The walls were full of pinholes (from thumbtacks holding up posters), and the drywall work in there was (and remains) a disaster. As a result, there are a lot of patches all over, as I fixed various holes and issues. Then there’s the big window at the far end, which was replaced three years ago, but the inside drywall work was never painted. Finally, the glass brick windows were also reworked three years ago, and while their trim work was all finished, they also still need paint.
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Anyway, now it looks like this:
That’s two coats of primer followed by two coats of paint to make all the blue ugliness disappear.
Aside: The second photo is much brighter for several reasons. Most notably, the ugly blue paint is gone. But secondly, there were two 60-watt incandescent light bulbs in that ceiling fixture, and they were replaced with 100-watt equivalent daylight LED bulbs. In addition, the new paint is eggshell sheen, which means it reflects the light a lot better than the old, flat paint. In total, the room is dramatically brighter now, which we appreciate.
There is still some trim left to paint, and I am going to replace the outlets and the light switch since they are all installed with backstab wiring, which is awful. (I’ll try to include photos of that next week, as I know some people don’t know what that means.)
We’re not going to worry about painting the baseboard or the trim around the door and closet, as I suspect that will all get replaced sometime this coming winter, but I will paint the trim around the windows and inside the closet. From there I can get the room reassembled, and we can move Anne’s music and sewing gear in there. After that, we need to rearrange the desks in her office to give her better, more usable space. She’s been living with two laptops and three external monitors on a six-foot folding table since last November. That has to stop.
Meanwhile, life doesn’t end. Our guest is still here, and I’ve got to write three more articles for the community email before Monday night. The proofreaders need to get that issue on Tuesday to give them the time to go through it before it goes out on August 1st.
So that’s the state of the world at the moment. Next week I should be back at it, working on a few more things, and the contractors might be back as well, working on the bits they need to finish up. Fingers crossed!
Happy August!
