southern fried gal

New Window Treatment! Fabulous, eh?

The main reason for the delay is that I decided to go ahead and paint the built-ins. We have sanded, primed, and applied one coat so far. I decided to go all white to match the rest of the house. Boring, I know, but clean and classic.

DH is off today while I go to meetings so he is going to clear all this junk off the mantle to prep it. DH thinks I may end up painting the bricks but I hope not. I hope I can live with them at least for a while. See how we have beams on the ceiling? I want to try and keep these brown but I may end up having to go white on those, too.

Which makes it hard to figure out what to do with the tiny crown. I tried to keep it brown to stay in keeping with the beams but it is not going to work for me like that – sorry, DH! I will be getting these to white this week. I pray the beams look OK brown because if not I will have to eventually go white. Which means I will need to paint the ceiling. Which means I will have to scrape the ceiling and that is such a mess. I really hope the brown beams can work at least for a while.

Do I obsess, absolutely! But DH has an obsession as well. It is the switches and covers. He took these from ecru to clean and crisp white! I love it when he obsesses!

Why can’t I ever just half-way do something? I’m so excited, though. The room looks so fresh! Can’t wait to get it all completed. One perk to having a blog is having the sense of urgency to complete! What projects are you working on?