Apologies for the radio silence. I’ve been traveling. Those of you who follow me on Twitter know what that’s like.
Anyway, I don’t have much of an update; I’ve been spending my weekend doing a little gardening and cooking up some fried green tomatoes. So easy, yet so awesome!
I am, however, about to embark on my next big project: a remodeling of my bedroom. Which looks something like this:
In a word: hideous. In two words: unbelievably hideous. I don’t know why I’ve lived with it like this for a full year. This particular picture of it was taken back in March, because I had anticipated I’d get around to painting it soon. Ha!
Better late than never, though.
I worked on the window trim this weekend, which involved tackling two problems:
- The windows are new and were retrofitted to the design of the house, leaving a big plastic border around each window to fill in the gaps between the new unit and the old frame.
- They were not installed at the same level. The one on the left is slightly lower than the middle window, which is slightly lower than the right one. At least if you’re judging by the ceiling. And you can’t help but judge by the ceiling when it hits the top of the right window and not the left!
So I’m doing my damnedest to re-cut the window trim in a way that conceals those flaws. And of course, a coat of white paint never hurts.
Master Plan for a Master Bedroom:
- Finish hanging the trim for the third window; caulk and prime it.
- Prime the rest of the room, including the wacky ceiling. Caulk wacky ceiling panels to their framework.
- Die, awnings! Die!
- Rip out the shelving systems in the two closets and insert something a little more aesthetically pleasing. My hope here is to eventually remove the closet doors and just frame the closets with pretty pattered curtains, as I think the bay window needs to remain curtain-less.
- Yank the light fixtures out and replace them with something that doesn’t look like Granny picked it up in the clearance section at Lowes.
- Install a shelf under the right-hand window for my makeup mirror.
- Reupholster and paint the trash-picked chair; give it a home under the new shelf.
- Pick a room color (pale gray-green?) and paint paint paint.
- Install rolling blinds in the bay window.
- Rip out the blue carpet. Install a new one in a minimalist neutral tan.
- Try to get my bedroom furniture to coordinate, somehow. Paint the bed? New hardware for the bureau? What to do with the bedside table I (also) trash-picked?
- Additions? A standing mirror, maybe? A little area rug?
That ought to keep me busy. For a couple of lifetimes.