Happy New Year

We have started the year off well. Late 2005, we had a colour consultant come in and advise us on colours for our house. We started over the New Year weekend in 2006 by painting the fence, deck and other outside wood. Months later we did the downstairs passageway and one of the bedrooms. Sometime early in 2008 we did the stairwell and upstairs passageway.



Remaining prior to Christmas 2008 was the family room, dining room, our room and the bathroom. The family room was a very daunting prospect as we had loads of stuff in there, especially my scrapping stuff.



As I posted earlier, we bought a new TV so had to do something with the feature wall:

this is before

and after

That left the other three walls to do and I had sorted out all my scrapping stuff (loads on TM, lots in the recycling, and a box to go to Trina). My corner just prior to painting

And my corner after painting ( the colour is really not that yellow)

The corner where the two walls meet showing the effect of the two colours: the colours are Merlot (red) Dejavu (rich cream) both by Resene

We will buy the paint for the dining room tomorrow and hopefully finish that before the weekend is over.

Today we planned to bring in all the outside Christmas lights but that meant that the shed needed a clean out ...... yet more recycling, boxes and more for the Sallies, and a few things for TM. By this time it had started raining and we didn't want to put wet lights away. So the lights are still outside but switched off. That will be the boys task tomorrow while we unload at the Sallies and buy the dining room paint.

It feels great to start the new year with a big clean out ...... still lots to go, but a big effort already done