Before and after
Sunday, November 27, 2011 @ 12:04 PM
Since absolutely nothing is happening in my poker world, and because more than a few have emailed or approached to see what we've been doing with the house, I finally grabbed the camera and took a few shots.
Enjoy...
First, a question. Do you have any idea how many little sample jars of paint it takes to find the right color combinations for a 2k sq ft house? I'll give you an idea. Just look to the right...
We won't even discuss how many trips to Home Depot all those little jars represent. I think I spent more in gas to & from Home Depot than I did to & from work...and Home Depot is five miles closer to the house! Every color we ended up choosing was inspired by the desert in which we live. We wanted southwestern color. The wife used some of my photos for her inspiration in picking the colors we used.
Anyway, the first room we did was the master bedroom. We started painting prior to even being approved for the mortgage. Call it confidence. Call it foolishness. Whatever. I knew we'd be cutting it short between the time of closing on the new house and the date our lease at the old place expired. As it happened, we ended up with a two week window in which to get crap done and moved.
I opted to paint the master bedroom and one of the spare bedrooms (which would serve as the gym) first. That way, my theory went, we could move in and not have to worry about moving heavy crap to get the painting done. With those two rooms done, the bed and the 500-lb treadmill could be put in place in newly painted rooms, and we could be done with them. Our other furniture was light enough to move around as needed.
We got those two rooms AND the bathrooms done prior to the move. No photos of the bathrooms, mostly because I forgot ;)
After the move, I started on the hallway. The heavy crap was in place and I had no need to worry about scratching up the paint during the move. The wife became obsessed with the color red. Being as my only reason for existence is to make her happy, I doused the hallway in a deep red color. The red against the light brown trim turned out nicer than I expected. I even grew to really like the red once it was on the wall.
All the while, I kept staring at the kitchen. I knew the kitchen would be the biggest, most difficult project we faced. I decided to pretend like it didn't exist. I chose to paint the other spare bedroom next.
The wife ended up settling on a silver/grey combination. At the time we painted them, they were my favorite rooms in the house. We had already finished up the first guest bedroom and filled it with exercise equipment during the move. Now we finished the second guest bedroom in same fashion...and filled it with boxes. It became the staging location for any box that I couldn't find a home for. While painting it, I asked if the wife if she wanted the triangle section all one color or if she wanted part of it to match one wall and part the other. I suggested the color pattern in the photo. She immediately chose to start calling the room the Q-bert room.
Annnnnd...I hit publish long before I meant to. Ooops!
Time for bed. I'll finish up with the other half of the house tomorrow I guess ;)
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I really like the orange. Though i'm not sure I'd want to wake up to it when hungover, would need to keep sunglasses handy.
It looks so orange in the photo. It's actually more of a copper color - dark & rich. The color shows better in the photo of the office, which is the same color, so tomorrow you can get an idea of what it really looks like ;)
