Pilgrim's Progress - Painting Wise

Pilgrim's Progess is an allegory about a Christian's journey from the City of Destruction (worldly home) to the Celestial City (heaven). In comparison, my dining room in certainly in a State of Destruction and it will be Heavenly when it's done.

In his journey, Christian can take one of three paths: Difficulty, Danger, Destruction. He chooses Difficulty which was tough but successful.

Like Christian's path - this dining room project has proven difficult but . . . in no way totally destructive or dangerous . . . well except for when I splattered paint on the wood trim and then cut myself on a nail. Regardless - the road may have been tough but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

From 7am until 9pm yesterday, I worked washing all the walls and cleaning the woodwork in preparation for the painters. As promised, they arrived this morning at 8am.

Step 1 - Cover all the furniture I had moved to the center of the room with plastic.

Step 2 - Put drywall mud all over the walls where repairs were needed. Let's just say that they could have just painted that stuff on. Divots everywhere!

Step 3 - Sand the walls to smooth them out. Good thing we had lots of plastic.

P.S. - notice the vent opening at the top of the photo above - well there was a Bose speaker attached to the corner of the wall and the speaker wire had been snaked up through the vent. I asked Beach Bum if he would be so kind as to take down the speakers so I could get the wallpaper out from behind them. So there he was on the ladder, with his burned hand, getting the speakers down. All of a sudden I heard, "Oh sh%*t, you've GOT to be kidding me . . . !"

The speaker wire had come loose from the tape that held it to the wall and had fallen down the vent opening. Whoops. So much for "surround" sound. Actually, Beach Bum has found a way to snake it back up the vent to re-attach it. Just a hassle.

Step 4 - Paint the first coat of "Caldwell Green" (to match the color of the bar) in the alcove where the parlor grand piano sits.

Step 5 - Take time out to go have a bagel at L'chayim Deli that just re-opened today. Yay!

Step 6 - Start cutting in on the other walls with the Navajo White color (kind of a creamy vanillla color). The light color on the majority of the walls really lets the colors of the outdoors in. You can see the lake through the windows in this photo. Just gorgeous.

Anyway - that's the update on the dining room for today. Should be done by Friday. Good thing too as we have guests coming to stay on Saturday.

We're makin progress . . . pilgrim!

Stay tuned.

Love,
The Lady of the Lake