It's been slow, but I do have a bit of new stuff to show. We haven't seen the contractor for more than a month, so we've been focusing on doing what we can on our own in the dining room. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow, we'll have all the crown molding up and the new chandelier installed. We keep joking that the original owners are going to haunt us for painting the oak woodwork in the dining room, but I think if ghosts show up, I'll lead them to the dining room and ask them if the dining room doesn't look 100 times better. Since they're ghosts, they won't be able to lie. They'll love it. They also can't complain too much because we replicated the paneled walls that were here when they lived in it. It was some dude in the 30s who ripped out the paneling, not us. We should score a few points for putting it back. If the 1930s guy weren't already dead, I'd suggest they go haunt him instead because he did lots of screwy things to this house.
Anyway.
In all honestly, we did feel a lot of guilt about our decision to paint, but previous owners had darkened the original stain to almost black (and made it so it didn't match any of the other woodwork in the house), and the north-facing room was like a cave. I *love* it now! The blue-grey is so absolutely perfect above the creamy white. It's a room I want to look at now.
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| Our super-tall neighbor-helper makes the room look small, but that's still a 10' ceiling. |
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| Our new table looks tiny in the room, but it's 10' long. The chandelier is ready to go up! |
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| And here's a shot of our kitchen from the dining room. The green tape shows where the island is going. |
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