I've never painted ceilings before
or molding
or two colors in the same room
or a two colors on the same wall

Should be fun!

Monday update: Results!

First order of business (easy order of business) was my cereal shelf. I have a pretty built in molded shelf above my sink that I've been using for my cereals (like Seinfeld). But cereal boxes are covered in ads and promotions and sort of ugly even though I dig the colors and cartoon characters. So in my old apartment and this new one, I'd just been placing them ingredient side out (lame). Then I got the jar idea and found these tall narrow ones at Ikea for $4 and got a wooden dowel from Lowes and screwed it in front as an earthquake precaution. Safety first!


The big project of the weekend was painting. This was my original paint plan:


And here's the before picture of one side of my apartment. The blue bedsheet was a quick-dorm-room-solution to no drapes that turned into a three month solution for no drapes. But as you can see new drapes are there on the theater seats to be installed:


Yay color! I took this picture before I installed the drapes but I did it, honest. My friend and I could only finish the aqua and the orange before we went to see 3:10 To Yuma, but afterwards I decided that I really liked the aqua/orange/white combo and I'm not going to use the green. It took three coats of orange to cover the gloss white finish on the shelves and the ceiling was a pain in the butt to paint but so pretty.


Me being pleased with my new apartment. I still need to clean up the edges and corners with white cause we were planning on using the green paint to cover our mistakes at the time. Can't wait to do the bathroom and the kitchen!

Labels: comical, inspirado, snappy