Final coat applied

The vestibule walls have received their final coat of Behr Cracked Wheat paint. The trim work now needs a bit of touch up, (Yes. I am a slob).  Touching up paint with me involved usually means I'll be switching back and forth between colors as I continually make small errors.

The windows need a little razor work, but I will be honest here, they were like that before we painted.

The ceiling also needs touch up, we are going to use the Serene (Bliss) Blue...Ghosts prevention  @@
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Vestibule 1st coat

Front door and upstairs

Natalie arrived yesterday to paint the front vestibule and pick up a computer desk which I no longer need. I left work at noon (it's Saturday related) and arrived home shortly afterwards. My job was to work upstairs cleaning. Natalie put this on hold right away by stealing my water bucket, cleaner (ZAP Citrus) and sponge to wash the inside of the room she's working on. Once completed I went upstairs to clean. While there the aroma of food started to permeate the house, Natalie was cooking. I started washing the computer table, picture ten years of spilled coffee, beer, tea, soda, and whiskey with ten years of cigarette ashes mixed in to form a black concrete.

Natalie gave the door two coats of paint, and it still needs more, she also finished the first coat on the walls before having to leave, it was 4pm and she had to be at a meeting with her daughter at 3:30.

The wall scrubbing is now half done, with the worst part of the room done.

Two coats of paint and the door is just drinking in the paint.

Still ugly but it's getting better, I did have an epiphany,when we do the next room, the crappy linoleum stays down until after we scrub and paint.

We disassemble Natalie's new table puzzle

Natalie Studies how it came apart for her expected rebuilding

Still working upstairs...

I am still in the process of working on the game room, and the vestibule is still waiting for paint, for that matter there is still a ton of things in every room we have painted that still needs doing, Some of the things are simple like putting shelves up or cleaning up some trim work, others, like the dining room window are more involved. In between are things like cleaning and painting the interior of the kitchen cabinets. The list gore on and on, with every major item that is completed there are numerous small things that need to be addressed. Then occasionally there are things that aren't really on a to-do list, they are just items that get done because I have the money at that instant or I decide to take care of an extra.

The other day I went to Home Depot to pick up cleaning supplies for the upstairs and while I was there I also picked up a couple Westinghouse ceiling light mount bars and a couple glass ceiling light domes. I installed one dome over the kitchen sink, 

As you can see, this window still needs painting (later to be replaced by a thermal unit), and the trim on the left needs cleaning up.

With that dome in place I am thinking about changing the plastic dome on the ceiling fan to match.

Another item was to add a little decor, I have picked up some art for the Dining room, the motif is Maine Lobstering. When I was young the family went to Jonesport Maine every year, specifically, Sandy River Beach. The entire area is part of the Bay of Fundy which has extreme tide changes. 

While searching for that type of art online, I came across a photo I had to purchase, The photo was taken from the deck at our old cabin of Mink island.

I temporarily have two Instamatic pictures hanging from the photos base taken around 1972.

Kitchen light replacment

 The light I had there was a glass dome style with useless bulbs, they come on bright, then go dim and slowly work their way back.

 I decided to go with another ceiling fan

Vestibule

Seams sealed along ceiling edge, shelf and mirror holes patched, and area under window cut out, patched and sanded. All that's needed now is a tad bit of paint

Gaps and grooves

Have begun scrubbing the walls upstairs (although these photos were taken before hand), started noticing all the gaps between the walls and ceiling...

and walls and floor...

then it dawned on me that while the gap at the floor is due to settling and there is a base moulding in place, that the ceiling gaps (while also due to settling) had no mouldings.

Last night I stopped at Home Depot and picked up mouldings

1/4 round for the baseboards

A simple pattern for the non angled walls