It’s been a few weeks since I mentioned my spare bedroom. It’s all done.
Monday Crimson Quillfeather, Tuesday ejoanna, Wednesday Pam from Calif, Thursday art ah zen, Friday FloridaSNMOM, Saturday Gwennedd, Sunday loggersbrat
I had the guys who work for the oil company come and remove the old oil heater and that plus the two small closets on each side of the heater gave me a 7 foot long by 3 ft wide space in my spare bedroom. I had to get my friend’s handyman brother to help me get all the framing out ( there were 7 2X4’s in a 3 foot X 3 foot area...way too much for me to deal with because they were really well nailed in!) and reframe the opening so a piece of panelling could be put up in the hallway wall. I cleaned up and painted the space a pale turquoise/green and removed the shelving I had put up on another wall, reused the brackets and put up 5 long shelves and put all my craft and sewing supplies, tools and extra stuff up on the shelves. I then rearranged the spare bedroom to accommodate a cupboard. The room looks so big now that all the mess is contained in the closet!! I wonder how long it will take me to make it messy again. Knowing me...not long.
I had to repaint the hallway wall where the heater had been. There was a new piece of wood panelling that needed to be painted. Unfortunately, I had none of the old paint I’d used for the hallway left, so my friend suggested I paint that bit terracotta like the feature wall in my living room. I did that last night. I hate it. It makes the hallway look so skinny and closed in!! The pale green had opened it up and gave you the optical illusion that the space was large. I’ll have to go get more pale green, I guess.