red red red
February 28th, 2010 Posted in bathroomhere are the pieces of red that i painted…and painted…and painted. it didn’t seem that they’d take that long, but it took longer and longer. first they had to be painted with the gray primer, and then the red…and more red. Floorboards, trim for the doors and windows.
i kept thinking i was done, finally…but then kevin brought me yet another piece of wood. i’m still not done, but i’m done for the moment. i thought that putting all the pieces in place would be fast, a matter of fitting them in and nailing them down, but it has taken kevin quite a while to do it because there was all kinds of measuring and finding of the studs in the wall and stuff.
very time-consuming. but it keeps looking better and better.
this is my work area down in the basement, which is darker than it looks plus it hurt my feet to stand on the concrete floor for hours. what if you worked at a place with floors like that, like, for example, menard’s? tortuous.
kevin put in some kind of splitter thing for the furnace vent, which is supposed to go into the bedroom and the bathroom and i don’t think any heat was actually getting up into the bedroom before we bought this. no wonder it was so cold in the bedroom all the time…
we bought this new grate for the heat vent and i love it.
we bought these little blocks for the trim to match the blocks on the mirror and sink. that was kevin’s idea. i didn’t know there were so many options for just about everything. no wonder we wandered around menard’s and lowe’s for such a very long time.
soon the bathroom will be complete, and then we’ll just move into that room because it’ll be so nice. it makes me want to paint the other rooms that need it, but no room needed it more than the bathroom.
plus the bedroom is very large and the ceiling is high and needs to be painted and there are inset things in the ceiling which will be a nightmare to paint and the room is filled with many things and i don’t like to think about painting it at all. i justify not painting it thinking that well, we’re asleep there most of the time, so what difference does it make?
one room at a time.
ok then,
sunday night grace.
5 Responses to “red red red”
By Darla on Mar 1, 2010
Hello Grace, Ha ha, it is me again. We are replacing our old nasty rusty vent covers with the exact same one you picked! However, we are painting them a slightly different color called diamond dust. We also had heating issues in a bedroom here. And I have been painting painting painting. Are we living parallel lives?????. If I had the time I would blog about it all.
By beverly r. on Mar 5, 2010
Grace, I hate to ask this, but is the left end backsplash on the new sink unit extending over the lower right corner of the window?
If so, was this planned, or do you (or Kevin) have new plan to solve window framing / backsplash collision?
No criticism, just curious.
By grace on Mar 6, 2010
yeah, it’s extending, but kevin has a plan for fitting the new window trim around it. you are very observant, ms. ryan!
By grace on Mar 6, 2010
wow, you’re painting the new covers? that’s very industrious of you…the major reason i wanted to get new covers was to not have to paint them! but then again, the cover would look cool if it was painted…but i’m not gonna do any more painting than absolutely necessary!
By beverly r. on Mar 6, 2010
Have done more than my share of projects. When the security guy at the Menard’s pickup lot recognizes your vehicle by sight…
Re: the hard floors – you need shoes with cushioned soles. Crepe, rubber, etc. Or Crocs! That is why so many nurses & hospital workers wear them. The cushioning helps their feet on the hard tile floors. I cringe when people want to put ceramic tile on their kitchen floors. Hurts your feet, and anything you drop shatters.
The red looks great, and I’m sure Kevin will do a fine job on the trim.