Following our lame HGTV debacle (chronicled here), we decided to go ahead and make a few frontyard improvements on our own dime. First up, trying out some new railings on our stairs. Now our poor grandmothers have been subjected to our inadequate rail situation before. We apologize for the challenges involved in entering our humble abode.
Our sad absent stair rails.
Since moving in, we’ve slowly painted the house room by room, using our own admittedly amateur labor (and recruiting one little sister for help). However, two room remained untouched. The stairwell, given the lack of appropriate ladders, and our office, which until recently had always had too much stuff in it to paint around.
After our recent game of musical rooms, in which the office moved upstairs, the master bedroom downstairs, the guest room to the former animal room, the animals to the mudroom, and the office on the way to becoming a nursery, we figured we’d paint both spaces — and this time we’d have someone else do it!
But first — what color?
Colors!
(Also, an apology for the grainy photos this time around. My camera died last week and so I am relegated to taking photos with my cellphone. Actually with my new cellphone, after my original iPhone made a valiant leap for freedom and gained a shattered screen for its efforts. It was not a good week for electronic gadgetry. And a word to the wise: those Applecare extended warranties aren’t worth a penny.) Continue reading
fixer with a view 