Latest House Pix

Again, more house stuff. We took pictures of the new paint, along with our cardboard decorating theme. Just imagine all those boxes are emptied, crushed and removed from sight.

The yellow study is the first room you see as you enter, and the least furnished (with the exception of the living room). We hope to put lots of black and white and maybe red things in it. Right now it is the study, perhaps we will move the computer upstairs and make it a real library. The archway is part of the entryway, and is painted in "Shark", a soft grey blue. We liked having two paints called "Shark" and "Flipper." Sort of like Godzilla vs. Bambi.

The entry has our favorite slate floor. You can see the yellow study and the dining room shooting off to the right. The shark color is a bit washed out from the flash, I guess.

The dining room is sort of bordello-red. Technically, Heartthrob from Sherwin-Williams, but HomeDepot custom mixed it for us. Red is supposed to stimulate conversation, and we love to have dinner guests. We heard red was tricky on walls, so we used the grey primer. I think it took more effort to cover up the primer than the walls. Dad worked tirelessly on this one, but when he was done, he was done, if you know what I mean. We found this dining set at Eurway and both really liked it. The wood is dark espresso with a frosted glass center square. The dining chairs are padded dark brown leather for long-lasting comfort. When we eat, we don't eat quick, so we wanted something for the long haul. We'll be trying this room out tomorrow. The long slubby silk red curtains are forthcoming. The fabric is here, but the seamstress is not; Granny is in training to prepare for the task, and we hope to knock those out before Christmas.



Sort of hard to see, but this is the living room. Our friend Chuck came out last Sunday and painted all the highest elevations in this room. Unlike the other rooms, we all voted NOT to paint the ceiling in this room. The part you see is 14 feet high, but if you turned around, the ceiling actually juts up to almost 22 feet. Not for the faint of heart. Chuck basically spent 8 hours on a ladder cutting in the cleanest of lines possible on this nastily textured wall. All our walls have that blown-on texture that is completely unavoidable in Texas (another charm). It was so extreme on some of the walls that we actually had to sponge on the paint. Let's just say it definitely created a learning curve we desperately didn't want. This room is painted entirely in "Flipper", the darker grey-blue. I love it. A lot.