I painted the kitchen walls yesterday with our choice of yellow. It’s a friendly, inviting yellow that has mustard tones in it – not Dijon and not French’s yellow though. Once it was on the wall, Kathy began the process of changing her mind. She liked the Kitchen color but wanted to change the dining [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Time to Paint
The kitchen remodel that we are doing is going well – in fact, we may be ahead of schedule by a day or so. I’ve started to do some of the painting. Kathy and I have taken more risk than we’ve done before with color though it’s still pretty conservative. We are going with a [...]
Remodel Anxiety
Ok, when you go into a remodel of your house, your home, you are hopeful that the choices you make are the right ones. You are hopeful, that the design fits your personal style. You are hopeful, that the functionality is maximized. Ultimately, you are hopeful that the results will be everything that you want [...]
Remodel Info
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this at all or very often in this blog but Kathy and I are doing a large remodel of our kitchen, dining room, and laundry/mud room. So far, I must say that the company we hired to do this job has some really hard working folks. I think they [...]
Small Project
Kathy and I like having a white board and a place to hang things (via magnets or such). We came up with a space in our Laundry Room/Mud Room to hang it so that defined the size. I’ve taken a quick and dirty way of making something for the space by combining two inexpensive boards. [...]
Politics are aggravating!
In my few years of voting, I have rarely seen that voting for one candidate versus another would radically change things. First, most candidates have little leverage to do things. Governors and Presidents may be an exception, at least somewhat. Next, even if a candidate can do things the views of one candidate overlap the [...]