Turns out two coats of blue was mostly enough. There are a few spots that could stand to have a third coat, but since so much of the paint is covered by furniture anyway, I decided it would be ok. I'm also going to be doing a little shuffling when the chair rail goes up, so if I decide that it really needs another coat of Midnight Dream (the paint color), I can do it then.
After painting and reattaching the baseboard (in above and below pics -- quarter round will be installed at some point)...
I swept and scrubbed the floors to clean up any stray wallpaper bits and glue. Fun fact: a little WD-40 will remove dried Kilz2 primer from a wood floor. Painted the door wall white -- it too could probably do with another coat, which I might do this afternoon.
I think the blue looks really sharp. It's very crisp and dark and gives the room a nice weight.
Weight is good, since it gets so much light. Having the walls be almost completely white (if I'd done white wainscot instead of painting) would have been too much, for me anyway. I particularly love the contrast of the blue with the stripes of the curtains and patterning of the wallpaper.
And the three shadowboxes that I made a few years ago for our previous home in Pasadena finally got to come out of storage. They're on the left, and are a PERFECT fit in this room. The top has four shells, the middle is a piece of coral, and the bottom is a sand dollar.
One more...ahhh..love it!!
Ok, enough inside. This morning, I was delighted to discover one of my white pumpkins has sprouted! (Crappy pic...)
This is one of the pots next to our front porch. This flower is called mimulus (aka monkey flower) and I saw it in Boothbay Harbor a few years ago. I took a picture, but thought I'd never be able to identify it and buy some. The Grange had them a few weeks ago, and I was SO excited. The color is unbelievable, and they're just right for the part-sun location in front.
Around back again, two of my dahlia tubers have sprouted. One's picture below...
And my sunflower seeds have also sprouted. I'll give them another week or two in the bed, then transplant to the fence behind the pool and other places they can reach their full FOURTEEN FOOT height.
This is the honeysuckle I brought with from California. I transplanted it last year next to a dead tree so that it'll grow up it and look like a honeysuckle tree eventually (and attract hoards of hummingbirds right outside my office door!). It's doing quite well.
Lastly, I got a great deal on these hanging baskets, which have little red petunia starts and blue salvia starts in them. More to come on those, eventually.
After painting and reattaching the baseboard (in above and below pics -- quarter round will be installed at some point)...
I swept and scrubbed the floors to clean up any stray wallpaper bits and glue. Fun fact: a little WD-40 will remove dried Kilz2 primer from a wood floor. Painted the door wall white -- it too could probably do with another coat, which I might do this afternoon.
I think the blue looks really sharp. It's very crisp and dark and gives the room a nice weight.
Weight is good, since it gets so much light. Having the walls be almost completely white (if I'd done white wainscot instead of painting) would have been too much, for me anyway. I particularly love the contrast of the blue with the stripes of the curtains and patterning of the wallpaper.
And the three shadowboxes that I made a few years ago for our previous home in Pasadena finally got to come out of storage. They're on the left, and are a PERFECT fit in this room. The top has four shells, the middle is a piece of coral, and the bottom is a sand dollar.
One more...ahhh..love it!!
Ok, enough inside. This morning, I was delighted to discover one of my white pumpkins has sprouted! (Crappy pic...)
This is one of the pots next to our front porch. This flower is called mimulus (aka monkey flower) and I saw it in Boothbay Harbor a few years ago. I took a picture, but thought I'd never be able to identify it and buy some. The Grange had them a few weeks ago, and I was SO excited. The color is unbelievable, and they're just right for the part-sun location in front.
Around back again, two of my dahlia tubers have sprouted. One's picture below...
And my sunflower seeds have also sprouted. I'll give them another week or two in the bed, then transplant to the fence behind the pool and other places they can reach their full FOURTEEN FOOT height.
This is the honeysuckle I brought with from California. I transplanted it last year next to a dead tree so that it'll grow up it and look like a honeysuckle tree eventually (and attract hoards of hummingbirds right outside my office door!). It's doing quite well.
Lastly, I got a great deal on these hanging baskets, which have little red petunia starts and blue salvia starts in them. More to come on those, eventually.
looks beautiful! wish i could see it in person...
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