Overexposure
Behold, a quick look at the still-in-progress bedroom, complete with new brocade patchwork doona cover purchased today at 20% off:
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How do they know?
An interview of self re the joys of home renovation. Final bedroom coat complete, although not without drama. The kind the cats sleep through.
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Fiddly bits
By virtue of abandoning good wall preparation practice, doing frankly stupid things with my nice curtains in lieu of dismantlement, and adopting lower standards to edge management I have completed the last of the first coat of paint in the bedroom.
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While I was sleeping
Some bright spark in the media changed the rules of dressage scoring today.
( A minor Olympic whinge, and I talk about other stuff I did today )
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Painting again
I have officially started painting the bedroom. Well, when I say "painting" I have yet to apply any actual paint, per se. I haven't even washed the walls. I have, however, considerably thinned the amount of stuff in the bedroom, some of which has been there since previous renovation efforts required furniture shuffling. We also cleared furniture away from the first couple of walls to be painted, and vacuumed all over. This raised several generations of departed dust bunnies from the more obscure corners, and so we've had the windows open the air everything out. Feels good.
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Curse that niggling thought
Just as I believed I'd found the colours for the bedroom, a thought began to intrude today: it's very brown. It being Taurus Red, destined for the wall initially intended to be festooned with the elusive Bordello Red. Colours. Chatty things.
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