Moving and shaking?

by chuckofish

Last weekend the DH and I got busy painting our son’s old bedroom. We took down the LOTR and Gladiator posters along with additional sundry pictures, washed and taped the walls, and got to work.

The carpet is not as bright, nor the room as small, as it looks.

Originally, the idea was simply to repaint the room white and put everything back, but as soon as I started painting I realized that the carpet sported too many tea stains to keep. Lacking the energy to come up with a new color scheme, we trundled off to the local home store and chose a suitable blue carpet. It’s more subdued as befits a grown-up room, but it is still blue. Expect ‘after’ pictures in early July.

Next I decided that the heavy, heavy desk had to go (that’s it in the photo above). After prolonged huffing and puffing, we managed to get it down the stairs and out to the curb where we plopped a “free” sign on it and abandoned it. Moving the desk is not a chore I’d like to repeat, but within 24 hours some enterprising citizen managed to maneuver it into his car. Success!

Still deluded as to my physical prowess, yesterday I helped our local food pantry move to a new, improved location. Of course, it was in the low 90s — a temperature guaranteed to make us cold-climate types wilt, and I did. The face mask didn’t help either, although now I feel more prepared to teach in one come August. What joy.

In other decorating news I ordered this material from Spoonflower.com to make into curtains for the kitchen and so add a little color.

“Chinoiserie Cactus in Blue”

Perhaps with a slightly more colorful rug and new curtains, the room will look less cold. I’ve put up a print to the right of the sink, but haven’t taken a photo yet. Stay tuned….

That’s my uninspired post for this week. I leave you with something to make you chuckle.

Have a great weekend!