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askye at 10:36pm on 21/05/2005
askye at 10:36pm on 21/05/2005Today wasn't as productive as it should be, but I did finally pick paint colors (yay!) and now I just have to run them buy my land lady. Mom said she was surprised they were almost all neutrals, but my landlady didn't want loud or dark colors, also I'm going to make the furniture and stuff colorful so I don't want things that compete. We'll just be painting the living area and the bedroom before I move. Sometime this fall I'll probably work on the kitchen and then the bathroom. All the kitchen cabinet doors and drawers have to be taken out and all the paint sanded off since they painted latex over oil. Plus there are built in shelves.
The bedroom is going to be a very soft bluey gray, I forget the name of the color. The living room is going to be Barrister white (which is off white), the bathroom will be lilac and the kitchen will be this really preety green that's called retro kitchen or something.
I also had to go to Wal Mart to get the paint I needed for the furniture, they have pots of craft paint -- 12 ozs (I think) that I couldn't find anywhere else. And even then they didn't have the colors I wanted so I maybe mixing some together. I didn't need enough paint to justify the cost of buying regular house paint.
Today I spray painted my vanity stool and the vanity, both metalic silver --although just the top of the vanity (it's going to be skirted). Then tomorrow we make the cushion for it and recover the seats of the dining room chairs. And go over to the new place and pull out nails and start patching the wall.
I took a bunch of stuff to goodwill today, my books are packed, almost all of my videos and dvds are packed. Now I need to pack all my decorative stuff and start putting my clothes aside.
Monday I'm arranging to have a carpet cleaner come out, Wednesday the lady who cleans for Grandma will come out one last time. The baseboards really need to be cleaned -- some of the furniture had been in the same place for the past 10 years and the baseboards were rather furry in those spots. We'll paint Wednesday and Thursday. Monday I'm also getting the utlities and cable switched over to my name (and get broad band over there) and make arrangements to have my phone line switched over on Friday. For some reason I have to pay $50 to keep my number. If I hadn't just gotten a new number last summer I wouldn't pay it, but I really don't want to have to learn a new phone number.
My pots and pans still haven't turned up, if they don't I'll just start rebuilding with teh basics.
This is really happening!! Squee!
The bedroom is going to be a very soft bluey gray, I forget the name of the color. The living room is going to be Barrister white (which is off white), the bathroom will be lilac and the kitchen will be this really preety green that's called retro kitchen or something.
I also had to go to Wal Mart to get the paint I needed for the furniture, they have pots of craft paint -- 12 ozs (I think) that I couldn't find anywhere else. And even then they didn't have the colors I wanted so I maybe mixing some together. I didn't need enough paint to justify the cost of buying regular house paint.
Today I spray painted my vanity stool and the vanity, both metalic silver --although just the top of the vanity (it's going to be skirted). Then tomorrow we make the cushion for it and recover the seats of the dining room chairs. And go over to the new place and pull out nails and start patching the wall.
I took a bunch of stuff to goodwill today, my books are packed, almost all of my videos and dvds are packed. Now I need to pack all my decorative stuff and start putting my clothes aside.
Monday I'm arranging to have a carpet cleaner come out, Wednesday the lady who cleans for Grandma will come out one last time. The baseboards really need to be cleaned -- some of the furniture had been in the same place for the past 10 years and the baseboards were rather furry in those spots. We'll paint Wednesday and Thursday. Monday I'm also getting the utlities and cable switched over to my name (and get broad band over there) and make arrangements to have my phone line switched over on Friday. For some reason I have to pay $50 to keep my number. If I hadn't just gotten a new number last summer I wouldn't pay it, but I really don't want to have to learn a new phone number.
My pots and pans still haven't turned up, if they don't I'll just start rebuilding with teh basics.
This is really happening!! Squee!
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