Yeah, this post is long overdue.

So here's what my place looks like now. MUCH thanks to Steve, Pat, Tim, Stephanie, and my Dad. I totally would not have gotten everything painted in one weekend without them. Steve especially for doing the blue taping and edging and spackling the unfinished part of the wall in the kitchen! Dad for edging the whole great room in primer! Both of them for moving furniture! (Pat and I had donated blood earlier that morning, so we couldn't lift the big stuff) Pat and Tim for spacking and sanding and priming and priming and painting! Steph for painting and helping the others and keeping me sane! Oh, and my cousin Reesie for helping me put the railings back on and helping my Dad put the big furniture back!

I had to be away from the place, or rather just downstairs for a bit, to be able to come back up and see it in the new color and realize how pretty it is! Makes the wood look great. But... it also makes it feel like the condo's not mine anymore. Which I know is how I'm supposed to be thinking, but still. I don't like living in places that aren't mine. So, I hate the new color. I want my green! :( But it looks good. And seeing as it doesn't feel like my place I haven't had the desire to put back up all my pictures, shelves, fairies, etc. They're staying packed up. The only thing I put back up (besides the railings in my stairwell!) was the picture my brother gave me for over the fireplace.

The condo's listing has the new pictures on it too, looks great! Though the blurb about the condo still hasn't been updated to have the new content - gr

Painting occurred June 13th and 14th (the second day by myself, which I wanted, to do the entire second coat. Lost some time when I opened the second can of paint for the second coat and found it hadn't been shaken when I bought it that morning, so I had to run out to Home Depot to get that done...). Pictures were a Sunday a couple weeks later when I finally was home during the middle-ish of the day on a sunny sunny day (I wouldn't do it on the rainy ones, and also realized that you get less sun inside during the Summer than Spring or Fall because the Sun isn't angled well enough to shine inside windows but instead shines near straight down on the roof instead, so I wanted to take the pictures between noon and 2 when there was at least a tad of sunlight shining in the windows instead of before heading off to work) :p

The light paint does make the rooms seem bigger... ah well.

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