Since we’ve moved in to our house, the room that most people call the living room has been filled with boxes of books, our wonderful leather chairs and various pieces of furniture that are in stages of fixing, putting together, home finding. It’s the first room visitors see when they come into the house so it’s always been a bit embarrassing to me to have such a craptastic room. But our plans for the room are big plans and time consuming. We’re going to turn the room into a study/library and so that means lots of bookcases need to be built.
Since I have only a couple of weeks before school starts back up, I decided that this weekend was the painting weekend. The first coat is on and I’ll finish it tomorrow morning. The color is a butterscotch khaki color and when I stand in the corner of the room and look into the dining room the two wall colors work well together. I’ve really tried to pay attention to color tones downstairs so nothing seems jarring to the eye.
The better-half wanted doors to the room so we ordered folding French doors and I’ve stained them. They are drying out in the garage. The days I stained were some of the hottest days of the year and let me tell you, I got such a headache after staining the doors. Even with the portable air conditioning unit plugged in and the dehumidifier going, it was hot and fumy work. Luckily, the afternoon I put on the final coat was wonderful and I did that coat outside.
Stay tuned to watch the room come together–hopefully this project won’t take terribly long now that we’ve started.