Indirect lighting

This week has been VERY CRAZY. The things that have been worked on are not all obvious. The pillars (thanks to Albert) have been smoothed and readied for painting. Most of the walls have been finished and all the crown molding painted. Thank you Albert and Michelle!! On Saturday Bill and Albert put up the crown molding. If you look closely you will see that the CM does not quite meet the ceiling. We dropped it 2" and have bought rope lighting in bright white LED which will be dropped in the space behind the CM. This will give us a nice indirect lighting effect. Bill has always favored indirect lighting and is excited to finally use it in our room makeover.
Here you will also notice another "quirky" of "this OLD house". Nothing is level or square. Putting up the CM we realized just how uneven the ceilings and floors are. The CM here is actually straight...it's the ceiling that is all over the place.

You will not see pics of any other rooms in our house for a long time. Can I just tell you I can't stand trying to live in the middle of the mess of construction!! It finds it's way into all corners of the house. But I can't wait to get my room done and I'm sure I will consider all of this well worth it.

The work continues!

The wall you are currently looking at will house our new closet. I am not sure what Albert is doing here. Our room sure looks small in these pictures, but it's really not too bad.



Here is Michelle painting the "tissue wall". She actually paints the tissue onto the wall, which creates a beautiful texture. Following this process she white washed it to lighten it a little (I was having a little anxiety over the color) It will also have gold veining through it which adds depth and elegance...beautiful!

Albert cleaned up and smoothed out the repairs Bill and I made to the heat vent. As we work we find all kinds of oddities about "this OLD house". The way they did the heat vents was one of those oddities. We were loosing a lot of heat into the wall instead of into the room.

Our exotic new room fan and light. We LOVE it!! In the back ground you can see the "tissue wall" And to the side, Michelle touches up along the wall she is "drifting".

The work moves along and we are very excited about the changes. We have a lot to accomplish
before the painting can be finished and the floors done. We are SO much further along than we would have been if we didn't have the help of Michelle and Albert. Thanks again to their talent and determination!!

Master Bedroom Progress

OK...This is the horrible ugly wall that will host our bed. The area where you see the 2 kinds of old wallpaper is where our closet used to be.

The black hole is where the chimney used to be.

Do you see the pinkish pipe that runs vertically on the left side of the room? That's our furnace vent, running from basement through our room and attic and out the roof.





Different view sporting the corner.


















While I was at work today, Bill and Albert got the dry wall up...and yes we covered the black hole, the lath and plaster, the old wall paper and just cut to the chase.

You may have guessed that the pinkish vent pipe is what will be one of our greacian columns. The other one will be on opposite wall.













Another view. Oh yeah, Albert is the one we recruited to do a lot of the work. He is 6' 5" and usually doesn't use a step stool. He's got talented, and he's fast!















When Bill and I got home from Salt Lake tonight Albert had come over and done the first run of spackling...Yeah!!

Twice in a week...could be a record!

Well...after being so beat and exhausted, we decided to call in reinforcements. There is a wonderful couple in our ward, Albert and Michelle Noppers. They are both so creative and very knowlegable and skilled in many areas. They both love decorating and painting and the like. They are helping us design and finish our room. There are of course things we are going to cut corners on so we can afford the things we're going to splurge on. On someone's blog I read about doing your floor almost decoupage style with brown paper bags and polyurethane. That's the way we'll do our floor. It makes it look like leather almost. We have some unsightly structures in our room that will be disguised as grecian pillars and we're planning on building a headboard to pull in a little grecian romance theme. The walls will be done in a faux finish, Michelle will tie in the colors from other rooms in the house so the master bdrm won't scream..."Look at me, I'm different". This is all VERY different for us....we are really pretty simple and don't do a lot of decorating beyond the very practical. I'm really excited to see how this all turns out. Thank Heaven for good friends who have great talent!!

August, September, October...

So it's been a while! I am better about reading everyone else's blog than keeping up my own...
When Wesley left for Snow (that would be August) we moved most all his stuff out of the way and moved our bedroom downstairs (basement). We are preparing for a total room makeover of our master bedroom. I did take a before picture, but am not posting it till we have the room done and you can see both before and after. That would be our September progress. October so far has seen the demolition begin, and can I just say...WHAT A MESS! As I've mentioned before, our house is 106 years old. We have gotten through a bunch of lath and plaster and finally got to the old chimney that was in our room (in the closet which was built later than the room). Black SOOT everywhere! After removing enough brick to make the chimney even with the wall we decided to quit and just cover it up! When we removed the chimney in the office we took the whole thing out clear through the attic...NOT GONNA HAPPEN! (Of course it was Wes and his friends that did that one) We are just too old and tired anymore for this kind of project. But it is started and must be finished. Bill wants us moved back into the master bdrm by Thanksgiving, so wish us luck. Right now I am going to the basement for a nap!