Bye bye border

I tried to go at this the lazy way by painting over the border but that was leaving a big seam in the paint. SO with a big sigh, we grabbed the scraping tool again and Dave went at it with some wall paper remover.  Better him than me!

Go Dave go!

 

In the meantime, I was working on the bookshelf.  It was primed and ready to go, and I thought that I would make quick work of it....I was wrong.  The paint was doing some seriously weird things.  It was streaking almost like I had put down that-oh what is that?  that paint that makes it looks all crinkly and old.  Some parts were OK after a few coats, but other parts kept reverting back to the weirdness.   I am a little scared to go over and see what it looks like today.  I am worried that it is going to look all crinkled.

 YEA!  Here is the living room.  As you can see, the color that we are using isn't too different from what was there already- on this wall anyway.  The other walls were painted a dark red color--which I am not opposed to, but this room was so dark because of all the shade we needed to lighted it up a bit. We are going to put up a chair rail and box out frames in white underneath it.  Do you think that is too much?  Boxed out frames in the living room and the board and batten downstairs?

AHHHHH! a little paint dribbled on my floors! I know I know, you are thinking "why in the world did they do the floors BEFORE they painted the walls!"  I don't know.  There really was/is a good reason and most of it has to do with when the kitchen cabinets will get here and all the dust that we made....whatever.  It is all done now!  

 So pretty. 

All done!  Now to do something with all those metal bi-fold doors.  They are floor to ceiling and are in all the bedrooms.  We thought that we would just paint them white and leave them in since I think that they give the room height.....but after getting our totally plush carpet and pad they don't open and close anymore.  drat.  I don't know- maybe that is a good idea, since it means that the kids can't get all their clothes out and leave them on the floor!  but I guess running around in their underwear isn't the best option either....I guess.  So unless anyone has any brilliant ideas about how to shave a 1/4 inch or so off the bottom- they are going to have to come down.  Which means having to drywall a little more wall so that we can hang some new doors- because apparently 8 ft doors are not "standard"  I actually HATE bi-fold doors, so any alternate closet door ideas would be appreciated!  ANY comments would be appreciated!  I feel like I am talking to myself here!