Stayin' Alive
Oct. 24th, 2012 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseWhen I left the house to head for the coffee shop this morning, Loki was still alive. He's completly shell shocked and hiding under the filter, but so far so good.
I had a HORRIBLE fish dream last night, though, clearly about the recent fish-related trauma. I dreamed I had a tiny fish, like a white mountain minnow, who kept flopping out of his tank and I had to try to pick him up off the floor--except in my dream, every time I got my hands on him, he'd slip back out and fall into some horrible new place. The most memorable image? Him getting tangled in a huge spiderweb, and when I finally got him out of that he was gasping and covered in dust and webbing.
Clearly, I feel like a terrible fish mommy.
Since I was asked to provide some pictures of the recent house project, I have a couple for you:
This is a view of the picky bits. It may not be obvious in the photo, but the crown moulding is painted brown. In the furtherst room visible in the picture is what the real moulding should look like. But all of the crown moulding in the downstairs was badly mistreated by our previous owners. They used that popcorn plaster spray on the ceiling and, for reasons known only to the dark recesses of their twisted minds, they sprayed the same crap all over the lovely hardwood moulding. Possibly because owners previous to them had painted it as well. I know this because in the golden room, our dining room, I scraped all the popcorn plaster crap from the moulding and then used a heat gun to remove several layers of paint. Underneath it all is a beautiful dark (red?) maple or possibly even oak. But that's a sh*tload of work, and not anything resembling a weekend project. Shawn and I have decided that painting the moulding will work for now, and that eventually, when Mason is off to M.I.T. or Yale, we will tackle the messy, arduous project of refinishing the moulding for real.
I also painted the walls, which used to be a dirty, grayish sort of white, but are now a color that doesn't show terribly well in the photos but is a sort of creamy yellowish white.
Here, perhaps, is a slightly better sense of color. The "new" paint is the lighter colored one. The other wall of the foyer is the deeper gold of the dining room. I also painted those radiator pipes going up the wall and the crown moulding you see there. The ceiling still needs to be done at some point, but that's a little less critical because it's held up fairly well and will be repainted a very similar sort of egg-shell whitish color.
You wouldn't think such tiny bits of wall and moulding would take so long, but I spent nearly all of Sunday working on this stupid project. The upside is that it really looks quite lovely now, and it's done. We shouldn't need to repaint for several years.
And, now for something completely different:
Here's the latest of my fan art: Renji and Zabimaru. Yep. Still obsessed.
I had a HORRIBLE fish dream last night, though, clearly about the recent fish-related trauma. I dreamed I had a tiny fish, like a white mountain minnow, who kept flopping out of his tank and I had to try to pick him up off the floor--except in my dream, every time I got my hands on him, he'd slip back out and fall into some horrible new place. The most memorable image? Him getting tangled in a huge spiderweb, and when I finally got him out of that he was gasping and covered in dust and webbing.
Clearly, I feel like a terrible fish mommy.
Since I was asked to provide some pictures of the recent house project, I have a couple for you:
This is a view of the picky bits. It may not be obvious in the photo, but the crown moulding is painted brown. In the furtherst room visible in the picture is what the real moulding should look like. But all of the crown moulding in the downstairs was badly mistreated by our previous owners. They used that popcorn plaster spray on the ceiling and, for reasons known only to the dark recesses of their twisted minds, they sprayed the same crap all over the lovely hardwood moulding. Possibly because owners previous to them had painted it as well. I know this because in the golden room, our dining room, I scraped all the popcorn plaster crap from the moulding and then used a heat gun to remove several layers of paint. Underneath it all is a beautiful dark (red?) maple or possibly even oak. But that's a sh*tload of work, and not anything resembling a weekend project. Shawn and I have decided that painting the moulding will work for now, and that eventually, when Mason is off to M.I.T. or Yale, we will tackle the messy, arduous project of refinishing the moulding for real.
I also painted the walls, which used to be a dirty, grayish sort of white, but are now a color that doesn't show terribly well in the photos but is a sort of creamy yellowish white.
Here, perhaps, is a slightly better sense of color. The "new" paint is the lighter colored one. The other wall of the foyer is the deeper gold of the dining room. I also painted those radiator pipes going up the wall and the crown moulding you see there. The ceiling still needs to be done at some point, but that's a little less critical because it's held up fairly well and will be repainted a very similar sort of egg-shell whitish color.
You wouldn't think such tiny bits of wall and moulding would take so long, but I spent nearly all of Sunday working on this stupid project. The upside is that it really looks quite lovely now, and it's done. We shouldn't need to repaint for several years.
And, now for something completely different:
Here's the latest of my fan art: Renji and Zabimaru. Yep. Still obsessed.