The New Living Room

I must tell you what I did yesterday to get the pictures of the new living room into this blog. I loaded 26!! pictures and my computer said, "What the hell are you doing to me"? and shut down. I could not do a thing. Couldn't close the blog, couldn't shut the computer off............nothing. So I closed the lid and watched a movie and knit.

Got up this morning and was able to cancel the whole blog, got back to my home page, sent a couple e-mails and have started again. 

What I'm going to do is put a few pics in at a time. It has worked with the first two, so I will keep my fingers crossed. Some of you have seen my living room and this may bore you. I'm doing this for sisters Susi and Debbie, Jim and John, Chris, Marilyn, and son, Steve.

Here is Rick, my painting friend! Rick is Marlene's son, a retired finishing carpenter and one mean painter! There was a LOT of cutting work in painting this room and Rick did a magnificent
job. He is the age of my oldest son........but if I was younger and a cougar and he wasn't married I'd snatch him up in a minute! In this picture you can see the color of the ceiling ~ deep maroon.

This is the tiny hall to the bedroom on the left, bathroom straight ahead and basement on the right. Rick painted this with the original color - a deep yellow gold. Rebekah came to visit and said, "It looks like a school bus!" So off to Lowe's to get 2 gallons of white paint and mixed them with the gold and green.
It really helped tone the color down. This room is way to small to have been able to handle the deeper yellow and green shades. But the ceiling stayed as it was and I love it!

I am now going to publish this blog and try to load some more pics. This is going to be one big
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