Today we got a late start. We were both exhausted from our ten hour days for the last two days. So, even though we bought all the supplies to tile the dining room floor…
…we decided to leave that project to next weekend when CT has a full day to do it. I work in education and am off in the summer, but have zero knowledge of tiling, so I think that’s a wise plan.
Instead we primed the master bedroom in preparation to paint. This project is just due to personal taste. Although there were chunks out of the wall here from when the previous owners moved out (just like the rest of the house), we really didn’t care for the paint color/stencils, so we knew all along that we wanted to change it. I will save the “before” picture until we have an “after” to share. However I will share the current color of the walls, which is very similar to the color “dandelion” in Crayola Crayons:
Too, mustardy for us in any case, but then there are bamboo leaves stenciled in olive green.
It’s a cool idea – a bamboo wall – but we both hate the colors. One room is a pretty lemon-yellow and we plan to paint another a light jade green, so it’s not yellow and green we dislike, just these two particular shades. And even though the idea is one we can appreciate, neither of us are totally awed by bamboo in general. So, we decided to paint our master bedroom and bath a color called “palisade blue” by Valspar.
We chose this color because I am planning on doing a nautical theme in our bedroom, CT didn’t hate it, as he hates many other colors, and we have such a pretty water view from our bedroom and we thought it would compliment the view.
I will update you when we’ve done two coats and it dries. Another, smaller, project that I did today was to spray paint our vent covers. I got the idea from http://fullofgreatideas.blogspot.com/. I decided to DIY update because while I originally wanted to buy these art deco style covers…
…but even on Amazon they are $13 a piece. With our ten vents, that’s $130, $130 we’d rather spend on…anything really. So I bought some Rust-Olem oil-rubbed bronze spray paint:
I used to to spray out ugly, came-with-the-house-in-1990, brown vent covers. At first, after a wash with ammonia and Dawn dish-washing soap, they looked like this:
Now they look like this:
Total cost: $7 for spray paint. Next I’m going to try doing the brass door knobs in satin nickel spray paint, we’ll see how that goes!
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