The hall, living room and dining room are finished!!! Let me just say cathedral ceilings are a beast. I've gotten really proficient with a paintbrush taped to a pole to do touch ups!! Plus the walls were sprayed the lovely "builders white" and they didn't back-roll it to smooth it out. The first coat was like painting sandpaper!
I've been asked how I manage the painting with the fibromyalgia since I'm doing it by myself. It's pretty much breaking it down into small tasks and taking my time. I broke the living/dining/hall into smaller areas to paint. For instance---Monday I might empty the room of accessories and pictures. I'm wiped out Tuesday so I rest. Wednesday I patch holes, move furniture, and do a little blue taping. Thursday after work I put a coat on the trim. Friday after work I put on second coat of trim paint. I'm wiped out Saturday & Sunday so I may not start the walls until Monday. It takes me FOREVER but it gets done.
I chose a color called "Peaceful Habitat"--Colorplace/Walmart (Sherwin Williams makes it) It's an odd kind of pear color that looks pale green in some light, pale gold in some and a tannish color in others. I LOVE it on the walls. It's light and bright and just pulls everything together!!! My living room furniture is a warm sage green with tiny goldish flecks so it matches perfectly.
I also switched out all of my dark primitive stuff for lighter, more cottagy stuff. Rustoleum 2X Heritage White Satin and Ralph Lauren glaze in tobacco are my new best friends.
This was my living room (yeah, I know it's xmas pictures!) before:
And here it is today:
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The TV niche was painted a couple of years in the darkest color on the strip that Peaceful Habitat was on. It helps blend in the TV. |
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Display over the sofa. I just repainted the stars and the picture frame Heritage White. The picture is an antique print called "The Gleaners". My great-grandmother's favorite hymn was "Bringing in the Sheaves". I stenciled a verse on a board I had to kinda tie everything together. |
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Niche area. I had all of the "stuff" around. I just painted anything black or dark the Heritage White. |
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I found those crosses in the trash on the side of the road (what--you don't scout out the trash on trash day?) They are metal and just needed painting. I made the curtains out of Onansburg fabric--it's CHEAP, washable, and looks pretty close to Pottery Barn's Belgian Linen. |
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I moved my pie safe into the living room. This is a family piece my dad refinished. Above it I framed several vintage postcards from my collection in repainted dollar store frames. I painted the folk-art Wool picture above it using an old Home Interiors picture as the canvas/frame. |
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| Close-up of the vintage postcards.I used ones from Sharpsburg/Antietam and nearby locations. |
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Vintage coffee table that belonged to the hubster's grandmother. The artichoke and finial were originally a HIDEOUS gold metallic and the pineapple was BRIGHTLY painted. But they only cost a total of $1. A spritz of Heritage White and some glaze and WAH-LAH. |
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Close-up of new sofa pillow I made. I found this fabric at Joann's and fell in love-PERFECT COLORS!!I love birds and gardens! I had the one behind it boxed up from our old house.  Picture of my trash-pile picked wrought Iron lamp I found many years ago. A spritz of paint and glaze, an onansburg cover on the old lampshade and some rope trim and it's a NEW lamp. I did the black metal table lamp the same way. I'll be posting the dining room pictures very soon!! Hope you enjoyed the tour and thanks for stopping by! Tamera |
