Clearly, it has been a while since I updated this. I started school. That is my excuse. I do nothing now but work, go to school, study, and listen to Georgia whine incessantly for attention (sorry Georgia)!
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| This is Georgia's default position these days |
I also spend a lot of time painting my nails. It is part of my mental process, don't ask. I did manage to make it to the Baltimore Book Festival and the Harbor East Fall Festival yesterday- Friday nights/Saturdays are my days off. I also saw "Easy A" on Friday night and it was a nice, fun little escape. All these people were lined up to see serious movies like "Wall Street" and "The Town" but these days I prefer movies that have either a) penguins b)dancing c) a lot of sarcasm or d) dancing sarcastic penguins.
ANYWAY, I promised pictures of the dining room to half a dozen people or so, so here they are!!
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| The dining room, in the beginning- notice there is nothing there... |
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Dining room round 1.
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First, we tried painting the dining room and the living room this yellow color. It stayed yellow for approximately 3 months, then turned this tan/brown/ill color. Dan insisted it was fine but it gnawed away at me. It actually looks a bit green in this picture but what do I know? Also notice the lack of dog crate in this picture...
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| There's the dog crate! Edmond decided to try it out and since I am evil (see previous post) I politely asked Georgia to join him. She kindly obliged, Edmond was confused. |
Then, I decided NO MORE VALSPAR! TO HELL WITH THEM AND THEIR CHANGING COLORS! It probably wasn't their fault. I moved on to Benjamin Moore, dill pickle. It ended up being... browny green. I don't know what it is about this house and color. It sucks it up. Granted, I also decided that the color swatch was lying to me and that the green would look greener in person. I was wrong. You can see dill pickle behind my lovely, confused, caged animals above. It did not please my delicate sensibilities. At this point, Dan decided that painting was a job I could do myself unless he was EXPRESSLY asked to help. I don't blame him. Smart man.
Third time's the charm!
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| If this isn't green, then I can't pick green out of a line-up. |
Tada!!!! Grape green by Benjamin Moore. It is green. Very. Green. I love it! Also you will notice that the furniture is different. My mom decided she didn't want her marble top Saarinen tulip table. Who does that?! I reap the benefits :).
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In an attempt to create a reading nook in the other room,
we moved this big cedar bookshelf into the dining room for storage purposes.
I think it works out quite nicely, as does Edmond.
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So the microwave had to find a new home when we moved the kitchen about. This is what happens- I try to "clean up" one room and then I find myself shifting the entire house around. It's a domino effect. The whole house is communist now too (bad history joke, sorry).
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Dan built this table out of some old shelves we had. It is a perfect tea station/dog crate cover.
Georgia likes having a cave too! |
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| Like I said, GREEN! |
After 3 different colors, multiple furniture placements and a lot of swearing at the ceiling fan for blowing dog hair around when I was trying to paint ( I wised up to its plan and turned it off eventually), I have my lovely dining room. Yay!
Next stop... the living room!
