Roll out the hues

I love a sunny yellow kitchen

from this

to this

Think pink. My statement wall for my bedroom is this lush shade of flamingo pink. The other walls will be just a light blush shade of this color. Going to go full Bohemian with all my tchotchkes in here.

a sunny sunday

Bruce and I took a break from our unpacking to enjoy the sunshine and do a little exploring of our new locale. Creston has a bird sanctuary not far from town. It is currently closed but I look forward to visiting when they open.

We also took a short stroll along one of the trails. Nothing says romantic date like waling past aromatic skunk cabbage.

My work list for yesterday included scrubbing the dining room floor on my knees with a scrub brush (sometimes a toothbrush), scrubbing the furnace vent (coated with the grime of ages and other things I'm not sure I want to know the source of) moving more boxes out of our storage unit, priming the dining room walls and a load of laundry. No wonder I fall into bed exhausted at night.

One little makeover, a newly acquired file cabinet got a spray paint facelift:

 

A new place

We sold our house, put our possessions in storage and moved to a new home as the C19 pandemic began to unfold. We feel very lucky that people have been so kind and helpful to us when everything has undergone such a shift. We moved into our new residence after spending two weeks with relatives that were kind enough to give us and our pets a place to stay until we received our keys.

I think most people are finding the isolation from their friends and family to be the hardest part of the pandemic response. I am just starting to feel the lack of personal interaction as I have been so focused on just getting into a house. Being an introvert and a crafty person probably makes it easier for me to deal with the isolation than some people.

Projects, boy do I have project. This is a 1974 raised rancher. The first thing we did was tear out all the carpets. I think they may have been original. We are living with our sub-floors until we can put laminate down (which will be a while). Initially, I had lots of ideas for remodeling. I am scaling that back by a large percent because our remodel budget is pretty small. I am also finding, that as I live with the house, there are lots of things I am learning to live with and appreciate. Most of the makeover will have to be created by painting.

Current project: Living room

There is a lot of paneling. It makes rooms very dark. There were lovely heavy dark drapes but they too were quite dark and both the carpet and drapes had been despoiled by a bad kitty. It all had to go.

I had to treat some floors with odor remover and painted them with three layers of odor blocking primer. This stuff seems to work, thank goodness.

I did a fair amount of research on the internet on how to tackle painting the paneling. I washed them, lightly sanded them and washed them again with a safe tsp alternative. I then used Home Hardware's Beauti-tone Stick it, a super adhesive primer, followed by two coats of Zinsser 123 primer and then two coats of Beauti-tone eggshell paint. I like how the fireplace looks against the light walls. I stuck up some temporary drapes for privacy.

Eventually, I hope to make (or have made) drapes from this ikat material I found at Fabricland last year. It was on clearance and I really love the pattern.

Back to work I go.

Crazy Ravens studio is just landing in our new digs in Creston BC. Rather excited!