How I Spent My Spring Break
When we bought our house four years ago, we used the back rooms as a staging area, bringing all our furniture and boxes there to be sorted before moving it to more appropriate rooms. Unfortunately, it took us a long time before we got around to clearing out those boxes, and two rooms in our house were a mess for quite a while. Eventually, we got organized, and we put in new floors and painted the walls and ceiling, and that was pretty good. Then Miriam found some wallpaper she really liked and she asked me to put it in. I spent my Christmas break last December putting that up. Knowing that I’d later be installing paneling to the bottom of the walls, I left the wallpaper covering only the top two thirds. It looked silly for a couple months.
My spring break began a week ago, and I spent it installing paneling and a chair rail. It involved dozens of precise measurements and intricate cuts, but by last Saturday I was putting the finishing touch on the paint. It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself, and is by far the most cheerful room in the house. During all my labors I regreted not being able to relax on the sofa–and I missed a couple chances to go to the beach–but, having now finished, I feel satisified.
Filed under: House on March 16th, 2009
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