So the home remodeling is getting to the end

unless i decide to paint the other 6.5 rooms(including the laundry room...thinking a great $5 can of apple green....and the hall downstairs...)


I am sticking to neutral colors and taking down levolors because we will probably sell the house in the next five years and really DONT want to have to paint over my fav colors LIKE CHARTREUSE...I am painting lighter colors to make the rooms look as big as possible and NOT have cream colored walls...or PINK walls...also trying to give the house a beachy look since its a hilton head style house built in the late 80s-89 I think...ICKY GREY AND WHITE STRIPED HALL WALLPAPER

which still has the icky wallpaper that the den had...off white and grey stripes...WHY would anyone put up wall paper that color??? I mean WHY??? I do know the previous owner was color blind and his wife told him that she decorated the house in browns and beiges...when she was really into all kinds of PINKS...mauve wallpaper, peptobismal pink bathroom and stairs to the garage(Thank goodness they painted over that) and wait till you see the color of the master bedroom....and we still have to deal with the miles of odd colored pink tiles in the kitchen...i hear from my good friend Connie that they are really easy to demolish:> and quick too!:>

BARELY BLUE WALL PAINT

this is a picture of the fireplace and the new bookshelves now that the walls are painted...I am thinking about getting a mirror...a round one for over the fireplace...The blue paint is a very soft sky blue...its from the white section...it really brings out the best in the new bookcases...makes the white pop..and most amazingly is how huge both of the rooms look now that the walls are light blue instead of the old ICK wallpaper...

THE OLD MAUVE WALLPAPER

Same shot with THE Barely Blue Walls(notice lovely yuck pink tiles! which limited What you could paint the kitchen!) NOW If anyone can think of WHAT can be done to these cabinets to get rid of the off white laminate on them...let me know...they are right up there with the pink tile and levolors on my list...but anything i can think of is HIDEOUSLY expensive...as it involves all new doors and door fronts...thats all hand routed oak trim on the cabinets...part of the doors...

The guest room...still has it custom levolor blinds(..they are either going or being covered up with curtain panels and a valance.....)and since it has pink carpet ...not too many colors you could paint this room...so i painted it a barely pink...it really brightened the room up...since the older color was a dingy peachy pink...this one is almost an orchid color...sooner or later i am going to paint the furniture all white i think..well at least its on my to do list one day!
This is the first pair of curtains i made for the master bedroom(and yes there were levolor vertical blinds in this room too!)...and yes arent the walls a beautiful umm is it plum pink? Funny it was the only hideous color she painted in the house that I could live with...it looks great with our cherry furniture-think rice bed and tall boy and chest of drawers...pictures of it when i get done! Still have to make one more set of curtains and the duvet cover...and pillow shams...
The small lr wall..this is really a very pretty sagey green...NOT grey lokke it looks in this picture...
Taupe stair well wall...I am going to repaint this one i think be cause it looks like cafe au lait AKA MUD brown:> THe lr drapes...well they are not made yet...BUT soon...sometime in the next week...and the levolors are COMING DOWN...then i will call habitat for the humanities to pic them up...cant give them away I have tried!!!

...and more paint in the lr dr which is a kind of L shape...but what about those two story walls in the LR...scary hanging out on that ladder...although my friend Connie says you get used to it...and I have done it before....soooo i may be a ladder monkey as she calls it yet:>

oooh ten days has gone by without a post

ONE OF THE TABLES IN OUR CLASS

my bad...i will try to do better but I have been painting EVERYDAY since i got home from athens...or plastering or repainting...and then there are the curtains i started...and i read HPotter 6 and checking the mailbox shortly to see if the Hedwig the owl delivered HP7 yet...slight snafu at Amazon ...as in i clicked on my old Credit card ## not the new one that replaced it...soooo its not here yet....wahhh.... and i stayed up all nite reading HP 6 so i would be ready to see how it all ends!!

In the meantime I have painted four and 1/2 rooms in our house in the last ten days...i couldnt stand living in the chaos of taking down wallpaper while i was gone...DID I SAY I HATE WALLPAPER...the plaster dust..the mess...YUCK>...now i can paint without getting paint allover me or all over the ceiling or floor...i actually learned to house paint...

ATHENS CLASSMATES

Here are some of the things i learned...well it might be obvious to you but my dad who we all learned to house paint with espoused the slap the paint on the mullions and MAYBE scrape it off later attitude...so what did we know??

• I learned to use a damp rag to clean up as i go ...wrapped around a small putty knife its FABULOUS!!!
• I learned how to keep my brush from dripping everywhere as i painted...duh...you dont use the bucket...you get a wide mouth cup with an inch or so of paint in it...
• I learned how to cut in ...well most of the time...when it didnt work out as planned I had my trusty wet clean up rag...and wet is really better than damp!:>
• I also learned that those silly plastic sheets DONT work very well...the paint falls off them when they are dry....
• OH and i learned that the little rubber maid cups and bowls were perfect for painting...and MUCH cheaper than those fancy things they sell at Lowes ....
• And did you know that light switches in bedrooms have DIRT behind them...now how does that happen??? so did the plugs...
• BLUE tape stinks...it leaves a nasty edge on the paint when you use it on the molding and it also LEAKS....WHO needs that??? and it sticks to you and everything else...I think its much stickier than masking tape...OH and pulls paint off the walls...ask me how i know??!
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• HMMM I know i learned other things...like its always hot at the ceiling:> but i cant reemmemebrere r what else...

so now for some eye candy:> what you came to see right?

OUR CLASS TABLE CENTERPIECES

When i was in athens i drew during class...i know ...bad right BUT they were reading books to us verbatim...word for word....and fed us like we were feeder pigs going to slaughter...we got really sleepy and really bored...so i started drawing almost everyone in the class that i could see to draw! and here are some of them!