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paint

  • Working on the apartment kitchen.

    The thing about owning a house and renovating it very, very slowly — and with no one’s taste in mind but your own — is that you really start to feel like…

  • New bedroom sneak peek. Painting!

    It’s been just over a week since we moved into the new apartment, and I can tell you two things with certainty: We’re going to be holding onto this place for a…

  • The kitchen has been painted!

    I painted the kitchen this weekend, and yes, I got just as bold and crazy with my color choice as you’d expect: GRAY. Valspar’s Filtered Shade, to be specific, in a matte…

  • This is what my living room looks like now.

    I’m pretty happy with how the living room at the house is looking right now, so I thought I’d put down the iPhone, pick up a real camera, and take a few…

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    The dining room has a black wall.

    I spent the last couple of nights of 2011 painting the long side wall in our dining room black, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. The living room and…

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    The living room has a black wall.

    Perhaps a more fitting title for this post might have been, “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before”—because yes, I’ve painted another wall black. But really, can you blame…

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    Black walls with black trim.

    After some consternation and consideration, I decided to go ahead and paint the trim in the bedroom black, too. I’ll take some photos later (I left my camera at my mother’s house!),…

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    The vestibule is finished!

    Only (!) four and a half years after starting renovation on the tiny vestibule at the front of the house, I am happy to say that our entryway is now 100% DONE.…

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