Again, I find myself covered in little specks of ceiling paint, the kind that makes the "popcorn" texture on the ceiling, albeit this time in my bedroom ( Read more... )

Over the last few days I'd taken to placing laminate flooring in my closet, and then proudly hanging brackets and a new closet bar ( Read more... )

FLOORING INSTALLED. STORAGE UNIT EMPTY.

YELLING. LOTS OF HAPPY YELLING.

Now to unpack. Haha! I'm hilarious...

3M makes a tape, cleverly marketed as "painter's tape" which one would use to tape over some pretty part of the wall that one does not wish paint to fall upon.

One would think that in removing said tape, said pretty paint would stay affixed to the wall.

One would be greatly misinformed ( Read more... )

I suppose that it should typically go without saying that painting is messy, and painting a ceiling even more so ( Read more... )

Because I like to do things in as Brownian a fashion as possible, I'm about to embark upon painting the ceiling of my living room. Yes, the walls are already painted. Yes, the curtains used to hang in the windows. Yes, it's backwards. I admit it freely. The reasons for this are that I wanted to have some textured paint on the ceiling, like a ( Read more... )

The floor is finally all here, after the initial ordering in early August, the initial delivery after I got back from Sri Lanka, and the second delivery to replace what had been broken the first go around. Finally. All here. As it is in boxes, it mocks me, since its like a set of big blocks that I can't play with, because they're too heavy, and ( Read more... )

Nothing quite makes your Sunday awesome like dumping a gallon of primer on the floor.

Mmm... painting.

Spackle... sand... spackle... sand... prime.. unpleased.

spackle... sand.. prime.

Hole gone.

Pleased.

Repeat...

Tired.

Today I spent what has to be a record amount of time for me inside of a Home Depot. I was there for over 2 hours, and have potentially committed to spending a lot of money. These things happen, but the floor will be prettyI amble along, utterly unable to select colors for the life of me, but needing to make a decision fast, as the deadline of ( Read more... )