Closing in on the finish line

I hope your holiday weekend was relaxing. Ours was all about painting and putting up pictures. In fact, I think Kent is highly grateful that he can go to work this morning and sit all day. I did keep him busy, poor man.

We’d hoped to get the entire apartment painted over this weekend, and we came close. We chose to put off painting the stairs and the hall by the stairs until next weekend for two reasons—first, we were pooped and second, we needed another paint pan.

I got the kitchen painted during the day Friday. When I pulled the fridge out, I got a nasty surprise—most fridges hide some dirt but this was really gross. I snapped a picture of the grossness behind the fridge and included it in the slide show. Once Kent got home from work, we tackled the bathroom and finished that before we fell into bed.

Saturday we got our bedroom and half the living room, and on Sunday we finished the living room and went off to get haircuts. Yesterday we put up pictures and mirrors and rearranged the living room. We are using mirrors to both visually expand the space and add more light, and it seems to be helping. While we may move some pictures around later, the huge gold mirror you see over our couch is not moving any time soon. That thing is really heavy and we used three dry wall anchors to ensure it stays up on the wall.

I included a picture of Eddie on a box in the slide show. I have to tell you, he’s found that box no matter where I put it—I think he must have the top bowed down enough from his huge butt that it fits him like a glove.

Finally this picture is of our window well in the bedroom. We used four bags of marble gravel to help increase the light, and yesterday I found the glass when I was unpacking boxes. Kent’s mother gave him this glass, it’s really cool looking and we were afraid we had gotten rid of it before we moved. Kent thought it would look really cool on the gravel so when I found it, I put it out there. And I think he’s right, it does look cool.