Porte au Chocolat
Sep. 29th, 2010 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_lupusAmazing what a couple coats of paint will do...
So, Max and I have spent the last several days in what is soon to be the Master Bedroom, putting up the beautiful quarter-sawn oak molding he has been kind enough to make out of a pile of wood we found in the basement of the house. I've stained it a lovely reddish-gold, and through much effort and a bit of cursing (why, oh why, are there no straight walls? And why are the drywall screws not where they should be, neatly in the center of the studs? sigh...), have nailed it to the walls. It goes with the laminate oak floors beautifully. The end is near. I am so happy.
This room, directly at the end of the hall, was formerly the dog's room. The previous owners of the house had two rather poorly-behaved pit bulls, and it was rather... not good. Among other things, they'd scratched the heck out of the backside of the door, and were none to kind to the front of it. The door itself is a solid door, but made of relatively cheap, ugly wood. Spruce, pine, whatever, and stained a boring brown. Looked positively awful next to the gleaming new oak.
Max had the brilliant idea of paint. Found the darkest brown paint with just a hint of red in it that Home Depot had (kinda matches the furniture... it's pretty close), and asked the fellow at the mixing counter for a quart of it, in the shiniest, glossiest paint they had. It is glorious. The color is Behr 'Warm Brownie', and it has turned the door to my bedroom into a Hershey Bar. I love it.
Painted also the inner doorframe, the closet trim (that was an adventure in itself... see previous statement about no. straight. walls. ARGH.), have so far put one coat on the formerly disgusting and slightly rusty heat register cover, and once we get to rebuilding the window frames, the inner parts of those will be the same glossy brown, trimmed in more beautiful oak.
Only bad part, really, is that now the rest of the molding looks positively awful... I didn't want to paint everything... but I might.... project for later... after I finish the second coat of green on the bathroom upstairs, and get that back together...
So, Max and I have spent the last several days in what is soon to be the Master Bedroom, putting up the beautiful quarter-sawn oak molding he has been kind enough to make out of a pile of wood we found in the basement of the house. I've stained it a lovely reddish-gold, and through much effort and a bit of cursing (why, oh why, are there no straight walls? And why are the drywall screws not where they should be, neatly in the center of the studs? sigh...), have nailed it to the walls. It goes with the laminate oak floors beautifully. The end is near. I am so happy.
This room, directly at the end of the hall, was formerly the dog's room. The previous owners of the house had two rather poorly-behaved pit bulls, and it was rather... not good. Among other things, they'd scratched the heck out of the backside of the door, and were none to kind to the front of it. The door itself is a solid door, but made of relatively cheap, ugly wood. Spruce, pine, whatever, and stained a boring brown. Looked positively awful next to the gleaming new oak.
Max had the brilliant idea of paint. Found the darkest brown paint with just a hint of red in it that Home Depot had (kinda matches the furniture... it's pretty close), and asked the fellow at the mixing counter for a quart of it, in the shiniest, glossiest paint they had. It is glorious. The color is Behr 'Warm Brownie', and it has turned the door to my bedroom into a Hershey Bar. I love it.
Painted also the inner doorframe, the closet trim (that was an adventure in itself... see previous statement about no. straight. walls. ARGH.), have so far put one coat on the formerly disgusting and slightly rusty heat register cover, and once we get to rebuilding the window frames, the inner parts of those will be the same glossy brown, trimmed in more beautiful oak.
Only bad part, really, is that now the rest of the molding looks positively awful... I didn't want to paint everything... but I might.... project for later... after I finish the second coat of green on the bathroom upstairs, and get that back together...
