A Clean Coat of Paint

Dining room wall with white patch from the old air conditioner.

The past two days have been spent dolling Gladys up a bit more with a clean coat of paint in the living room and dining room.  As the pictures show, we started in the dining room with a wall that showed where the old room air conditioner once hung between the dining room and the garage.  A failed color swatch also had to be dealt with.  The pictures show how a once eye-sore of a wall turned into a wonderful backdrop for our new dining room furniture.

Dining room after the paint was completed.

Completed dining room with table added.

The former owner of the house, Jackie, had pictures hung everywhere.  Many were religious scenes and pictures of Jesus, and many were unknown because when she changed the art in the house, she never removed the old nails.  In the living room wall pictured here, we patched 24 nail holes. 

Living room with "patches" and selected color in painted swatch.

(In the Florida room, I removed 36 plastic wall anchors just above the windows where various curtain rods had hung over the years.  Again, when the draperies changed, the old anchors were just left while new ones were added to the walls.)

A brighter, cleaner living room and hall!

The old yellow (which really was more tan than yellow) was replaced with our new, bright, sunny yellow.  The pictures show how the dull rooms were brightened in the end.

Rick and I have discussed this decision for the last two days, and we have decided to return to Wisconsin early.  Lindsay is in the process of looking for a new house, and we want to be there if she chooses one and has a home inspection.  Additionally, our work is almost complete with the paint now on the walls, the summer humidity has really come in within the last week, and our money is gone.  So it is time to head north.  Tremendous storms delayed our scheduled termite treatment for Gladys yesterday, and they have been rescheduled for next Wednesday.  We will use this next week to do some last-minute tasks, and then we plan to head north on Friday, July 29 (Stephanie's birthday!).  We will be home no later than Sunday.

Pinellas County, were Dunedin sits, is known as the lightening capital of the United States, and we know why.  Yesterday we had probably the biggest thunderstorm that I have ever seen in my 57 years.  The lightening was literally in our neighborhood, and the house shook with the noise of the lightening more than once. My friend Rose would have loved it here as she says she feels snug in her house whenever storms come through.  Tonight, we again have the thunder and lightening rolling in, so I am not going to stay on this computer any longer.  Have a great day!