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Renovation Retrospection: The Upstairs Guest Room

We are headed to Florida at the end of the week and it’s time to get a guest room completed for our house/dog sitter. I’ve had all the “pieces”. I just need to put them all together.

I took down all of the decorations from the room and donated them to Goodwill. Except for the giant tree. I saw someone selling one on Craigslist for $275 and thought maybe I should do the same.

The room is now empty so that I could remove the wallpaper border and paint it. When I moved the tree, this is what I see.

Advice to the home seller: I’d strongly suggest that when you do a bad patch job on a wall, you at least use the same color paint to cover it up because when the new buyer removes the big ass tree you put in front of it, they will see your shoddy workmanship.

I guess that the reason the wall paper border was put up was to hide the really crappy paint job.

The good news is, I was able to pull most of the wall paper down by grabbing the loose edges. It took me around an hour to get the super stuck pieces off with a steamer.

Advice to the home seller: If you decide to put up a wall paper border to hide your crappy paint job, be sure not to do a really good job at sticking that stuff up, either. That way, when the buyer wants to get this hideous stuff off the wall, it won’t take them as much time as it will if you do a really good job.

The room is now ready for some fabu paint! 🙂

Color my world

So we’ve been back in Bartlesville for about a month now and it looks like at least I will be here for a little bit longer. I decided I wanted to paint the doors. It was time! 🙂

I had seen a picture of a teal door in a magazine and I thought it would look great with the dark green trim and shingles on our white house.

Yesterday, we went to get some paint. I had teal in mind but was faced with this:

Oh pretty, pretty, pretty colors. Do I really want teal?

I love color and I’m also a Libra which makes me both very happy with a huge selection of colors and frustrated and my inability to pick just one.

I grabbed the teal but there was a most yummy blue called Turkish Tile.

Complete indecision. So I took the paint chips back to the where the shingle samples were and laid it all out.

Both colors look great with the dark green. ::sigh::

I have nothing blue except temporary navy curtains that are on all of our windows to keep the eyes of prying neighbors out of our house. One day, those will be replaced with something that makes more sense.

I started thinking that perhaps the blue would look garish if it were any bigger than the paint chip so in the end I went with the Lake Teal.

I like the way it turned out! 🙂

Ugly, Uglier and Extra Ugly

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So we’re living in a corporate apartment here in Little Rock and they furnished the apartment for us. The lamps that were brought in are, in a word, extra ugly.

Okay, two words, but they really are extra ugly. And they are not color coordinated. With my personal motto being “color coordination is everything” the lamps could not be allowed to remain.

I spent so much money just outfitting the kitchen with glasses, pans, dishes, etc. that I balked when I saw the price for new lamps. Do you know they don’t sell them all together? You buy the lamp base and then the shade separately.

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve bought a lamp.

Anyway, I decided I was going to check out the Goodwill. I had seen a big store when we were out to dinner one night.

I found two lamps.

Ugly

and

Uglier

For some reason the gal who checked me out told me she was going to give me 85% off of Uglier. I felt kinda bad for him but who am I to argue with an 85% discount? Besides, I was going to make him gorgeous.

So I paid $6.50 for my two lamps.

Then I headed to Hobby Lobby and got some paint and Wal-Mart to get lampshades and the hardware to attach them to the lamp.

I started painting Uglier and look!

He looked like a gorgeous chocolate fountain. Yummy! 🙂

Once he was dry, he still looked gorgeous but not so much like a chocolate fountain. Doesn’t he look great by our bed?

Next I had to paint Ugly. He was going to remain in the living room with the black and tan furniture. I’ll never understand why they put a green lamp in here.

Anyway, I think he turned out beautiful, too.

Now our house is color coordinated and we can sleep nights. Ahhhhh. 🙂