38 Elm Street
2 Winters later...We've begun to work on this place in earnest. After selling Hough Street, we took some time off, but now we're slowly getting back into it.
In the last year, we've put on a new roof (standing seam), and added a second pellet stove to the front living room. We're also replacing four windows, as the front of the house the windows were all sealed shut, and we can't open them for ventaliation. It figures that they did a good job on that , but crap everywhere else.
Master Bathroom
Karen got reallly tired of simple splashing water staining the walls. Why? Can you say crap paint job? So besides priming all the walls (which we doubt they did), two coats of decent paint did the trick. Next up was Wainscotting in the bathroom toilet area. |
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Kitchen
The same paint problem in the bathroom pervaded the kitchen as well. I started off by covering all the knot holes in the trim; again, thier idea of painting apparently consisted of rubbing white out on raw wood and calling it "done". I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I hope thier attention to detail doesn't carry through to their professional lives.
Once that was down, we hit the wall color with new paint.
Karen's back at work, painting the kitchen Above the door you can seee the new paint, vs the old on the rest of the wall The old paint. Note the lack of sheen. It marked up so easy it wasn't funny. And the new paint. All it took was two coats, just a couple of afternoons after work. Dining Room
(October 2008) After a couple of years of waiting, Karen finally found her dining room table at a new store that opened in West Lebanon - Earth Deco. Naturally that meant new paint.
We opted for a darker tone for the dining room, to go with the table. Well it was delivered before we could finish. You can see the new color on the wall with the windows, and the old on the wall behind Karen. First champagne! We still need to decide on chairs. The table is made from reclaimed teak scraps, assembled in this amazing pattern. We're thinking the new color goes well. Next up, some original artwork by one of our favorite local artists, John Kemp Lee.
