Three Down*

I finally finished painting the "master" bedroom yesterday.



I guess the paint chip looked like a completely straight brown next to the green, this photo doesn't really show it(and the other pic on Flickr I took with the flash is a little light,) but it seems to lean just a little bit to the orange side. I think it'll be okay, but what won't be is that after finally expunging the walls of pink--and the stenciled border that took three coats of primer to hide--it's really brought out the dusty freaking rose in the carpet.

I also put up the Rubbermaid closet organizer you can see part of here. Installation was a bit of a pain--I could see how user opinions on it varied widely--but mostly just because I didn't have a stud finder and you do want to install the top rail everything hangs off of pretty precisely. And afterwards I remembered that I do have a laser that could have helped some.

I learned from Dad that the whole house is framed using only 2 X 4's(and it's not old enough to be from the "good old days" when "2X4" actually meant 2" by 4")but they're least spaced to the code requirement of 16", which was seen at the time as a ridiculous waste.




Looking around the property, I was concerned about these small spots of missing bark on a couple of the trees along the lane, but all I could find on the weeb says it's probably normal. At any rate, it probably woudn't be a bad idea to thin them out.

And finally for today, it's nice to see my collection of used tires and water tank/fire pit have survived the winter.




(*standard touch-ups disclaimer applicable)