What color?

Not too much going on around here, other than the 'vehicle curse' that has been placed on us. We have four, yes four cars broke down at the moment. One isn't even ours! And it has all happened within 3 weeks. It's so ridiculous all we can do is laugh about it now.

I really need to start getting ready for work. But instead I'm thinking I want to paint the office. Not at this moment of course, but soon. For some reason I'm drawn to bright pastel colors right now. And would kind of like to put one on the walls in here. BUT, it's really going to clash with the rest of my house (well, except Devony's room).

Most of my house, with one exception, is painted warm dark colors. I like barn reds, mustard yellows, pumpkin orange, colonial and navy blues, browns and dirty looking greens. And black. Oh I can't forget the black. Not shiny, modern black. I'm talkin old fashion, dull and worn, wicked looking black.

So, how do you think bright meadow green is going to look? I'm thinking it's going to look funny next to all of my antiques and old stuff. I'm thinking that as soon as the painting is done and the room is put back together I'm going to say, "This isn't right. Let's repaint." And since I've done that before, a couple times actually, and know what a pain that is, I'm thinking....."How about Tan?"

This Old House

Built in 1897, this old house has stood the test of time. It's witnessed the turn into two new centuries, depression, recession, two world wars, made it through the remodeling of the 50's, survived the neon 80's and to much surprise of many saw that the world didn't stop at 12:01, Jan. 2000.

Now, if it can just survive me.

Purchased 4 1/2 yrs ago, we vowed to take it back to its glory days. That means tearing out blue shag carpet, taking down white vinyl siding and vinyl mini blinds (perhaps I'm wrong but I don't ever recall seeing vinyl mini blinds in any of the historical homes I've ever been in) like I said, "could be wrong", removing the metal sink/cabinet combo, removing 'Pergo-like' wood flooring and anything else that resembles a 'Home Depot' look.

It's a little something we like to call re-store, not remodel. Restore...remodel, restore...remodel, two very different things.

Now having said alllll that, historians/re-storers/preservationists enthusiasts hold your earists...(I'm going to say this fast and in a whisper) I've decided to paint the hardwood floor in the dining room. :(

I know..I know, what is wrong with me! How could I do something like this! There's no painting of 100+yr old pine floors. Well, let me tell you. When I, lol, we, lol, ok just Doug, ripped up the carpet in the dining room we found that the floors had already been painted and even worse, had glue all over that. You know, the kind of glue that's used to apply gymnasium flooring. Mmm Hmmm. That's what we found. God-Only-Knows what these people were doing to need that kind of adhesive. And let me tell you, it's not been fun (for Doug) :) removing what little we've been able to remove.

So let the painting begin. A paint color that has been approved by the National Historical Society of Preservation. Seriously, check it out for yourself. We got it at 'Home Depot'. LOL