Archive for March, 2007

The floors are in, the walls and ceiling have been painted, and the trim has been painted (but needs one more coat). We’ll finish putting in the baseboard tonight, and then assemble and install my wardrobe tomorrow. My hands and wrists hurt, but soon we will have a bedroom again.

Yeah! Sleeping in the hallway is awesome! Oh, wait… no it’s not. It’s weird and awkward! Sorry for the unmade bed, but seriously… why bother? We’re putting in our floors this weekend, so we will soon have a nice bedroom. Also, you may remember that I had posted about wanting the above bed (“Dreaming of [...]

For the last three days, I’ve looked pretty much like this: Painting, painting, painting. But I finally chose a color for the ceiling! It’s “flowering herbs”, or as Brandon’s family calls it, “Cooney green”. I don’t know the whole story, but Brandon’s Grandma Cooney used that color (a lot?), and subsequently everyone else in his [...]

I’m still trying to figure out what to do for the lighting in the kitchen. There will be two halogen bulbs in the range hood over the stove, and we’ll have a light over the sink. There are also two windows and a door, so we get lots of natural light during the day, but [...]

Ugh. Our flooring came in, so Brandon and I went to Lowes to pick it up. Twas the wrong type of floor. When we ordered it, we asked plenty of questions about installation (noting that we were going to do it ourselves), and we knew that we wanted to do a floating installation. I don’t [...]