I have finished doing the painting necessary to cover up the drywall patched and mudded/primed areas, hooray! It took some doing but I'm more or less satisfied with the results. Short of going out and buying more paint so I can redo the entire wall to get even coverage over old and new, it's about all I can do. I used every trick I could find on the internet plus some savvy advice from the handsome young novice painter/drywaller/mudder who appeared on my doorstep some Fridays ago just as deer hunting season was opening up north (see prior posts for back-story), to get the "new" paint to "match" the texture and sheen or "hand" of the existing paint on the walls, which was evidently done some time in 2014 before I bought the house in July of that year. I assume it was 2014 because that's the date on the leftover paint I was fortunate enough to find in the can left in the basement storage area, as most people do no run out and buy paint and then leave it sit around for 4-5 years unopened while they hem and haw about whether they (me) feel like painting. After watering the paint down with 1/4 cup of water I eeked out enough to do the job and even got some touch-ups done, too. And there is a teeny weeny bit of paint left over.
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| Fridge now sits where doorway used to be. |
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| In honor of this occasion and to make you all think I'm the world's best housekeeper in the world, I cleaned most of the stuff off the countertops that normally resides there. My house has never \looked this great, LOL! |
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| The hated corner windows, impossible to reach to clean - or open/close. |
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| This is now the entry from living room into the kitchen/dining areas - no more window! The sofa normally sits where the Christmas trees are. |
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| Looking through the opening from the living room. You can kinda sorta see all the snow piled up in my backyard/patio through the patio doors. |
The fridge is in its new home and fits like a glove next to the countertop. Sometime later today the bookcase I ordered should be delivered, and since I finally finished shoveling myself out from under 16" of snow that fell over 9 days (it ended early Sunday morning) in two heavy snowy weekends and the 35 mph winds that created yet more drifts yesterday have moved east, I was able to get back outdoors without risking frostbite in 3 minutes, I will now have time to unpack it and put it together. Well, if I feel like it. It may well until after Christmas.
