Black and Blue...and well, Sage Green too

Holy house repair Batman, we've been lacking on posting. These past few months have seen a flurry of house activity, since ultimate is done for the season and the weather is not so hot for camping, we actually have weekends to do...well, work. Yay? Anyway, we've accomplished the following during the spare time we've had:

- Added a top piece to the baseboard in the dining room (and soon the living room) to make it more than a mere block of wood.
- Painted the dining room the color we wanted, steel blue-y.
- Ripped down the wallpaper in the inerstitial hallway and painted it a slightly lighter brown than the filbert room.
- Tore off the front door frame, sanded, stripped, primed and painted the door black, cut new trim and frame moulding and re-installed it. Whew.
- Re-hung the front door and bathroom door with some fancy hinges from Rejuvination. (Expensivo)
- Created a doorbell out of a door knob plate that works with a piece of a doorbell we found at Rejuvination. (Thank you Dremel)
- Took a nap. Actually several of them.
- Made our heat bill skyrocket with the unfinished job on the front door. Hellooooo weatherstripping.
- Pruned the rosebushes back for winter (and by pruned I mean, decimated)
- Poured concrete overlay onto the crappy existing concrete sidewalk on the side of the house and embedded blue tiles in the top layer.
-Painted the living room Sage/Moss green thus eliminating all traces of what I like to call tuberculosis yellow from our house.
- Came up with 14 other projects to do...oi.

As with all the above projects, we thought, "Saturday...maybe Sunday tops to do it" and a week later we were still working on it. An onion house for sure. But it's nice to get some small victories done and feel like you're actually making progress. Plus, painting rooms means you can hang things in them now, which we've been holding off on doing until the walls were done. Now we're in the furniture buying frenzy mode of making the place comfortable to live in.

James is coming into town next week and I'll try to sucker...I mean, encourage him into helping us build a faux beam and column to separate the living room and dining room colors. Look for the future post of, "two men, one saw, so few fingers."

In the meantime, check out some more repair pics here.