Blather

This is the first room done. Done as in "no more needs doing." The walls are fixed and primed, the ceiling is uniformly white. I put some darker yellow, slightly orange trim along the baseboards and on the door edges, with white semi-gloss on the window casings and the single panels on the doors. I put new mortise locksets in the doors, new porcelain knobs on the built-in dresser, and even got drawer liner in the built-in dresser. The bed is my son's, stashed in storage because he broke the side rail and one of the slats. I repaired the slat, built another slat, and put a steel screw into the broken part of the side rail before re-assembling the whole thing. Bed is nice. Everything's great- lights, paint, floors, blinds, bed.

The living room is almost done. I patched the 3" hole my son made to pull wires. Getting pretty good at patching round holes in plaster walls. I'll touch-up the yellow walls, then put a coat of white semi-gloss on the baseboards. I patched holes in the bathroom, also so we could re-wire the room, and I'll try to put some light green semi-gloss on the walls. The light fixture that was there looks much better with a coat of blue-green metalic paint. (The clods that had the house before us had hit the fixture a few times with a paint roller.)

Got some yardwork to do, but I'm trying to focus on the inside of the house for now. One down, ten to go.