November 06, 2006
Light fixtures and the unfortunate case of trying to repaint the bathroom.
The week after our honeymoon Jason and I tried to repaint the upstairs bathroom. It was bad: like find-me-crying-in-the-closet bad. We tried to paint this lovely, watery blue over the yellow that was there, except it wasn't just the paint color that was watery. Even after three coats, you could still see the yellow through the new paint. Well, you still can, actually--to save our sanity, we abandoned the painting project, and despite many offers from courageous friends to help us finish it up (Christina, Brook, Joie, Rebecca, both sets of parents--forgive me if I've missed anyone), we have not returned.
One of the side projects we undertook in the process was to paint the gold fixtures (lights, medicine cabinet, switch plate, towel holder) silver. And, not surprisingly, we had almost as much trouble with the fixtures as with the walls. We were using spray paint, and we just couldn't get it to be not drippy and runny. So finally we just gave in and put it on all thick and swirly. Now the modern art part kind of clashes with the old-school etched-glass glass part, so it reminds me of an ill-conceived Trading Spaces art project. The thing is, though, that I kind of like the light fixtures in spite of all that.
When all is said and done, we have an unfinished-looking bathroom that works just fine. This is not to say that we will never finish it, but what I finally realized is that I don't actually care all that much. Even better, neither does Jason. I think we care (don't care) the same amount, and somehow that makes me really, really happy.
Posted by Renae at November 6, 2006 01:46 PM
Hey, My first thought was "that's cool looking!" I never thought that the base and the globe shouldn't belong together.
I found you because of Lane's Pink Elephant Randomizer. http://www.pinkelephants.org/
The other day I had a visit from OddMix on my "An Experiment" post. He is involved in a very cool project and he adopted me into it. http://oddmix.wordpress.com/nablopomo/
I thought it was so cool that I am now propagating the project and today my goal is to adopt some others into my portion of the project.
You're in my project. Look for me often :-D
have fun,
pamElise aka MarillaAnne
Posted by MarillaAnne at November 8, 2006 10:32 AM
Globe! I couldn't for the life of me think of what that part was called. Thank-you.
And what a cool project. Thanks for putting me on your list. Welcome to the blog--hope you like it. :)
Posted by Renae at November 8, 2006 03:36 PM
LOL no prob ... anytime i can be of service :-D
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