Serendipity?

living room into dining room, originally uploaded by Kimberly4.

After the refinishing was done we picked our new, lighter paint colors to contrast the darker trim.

The living room color that we chose happened to be the exact match with its first paint color. We discovered this when we removed the old thermostat and saw that it covered some of the original color.

Living Room

living room, originally uploaded by Kimberly4.

The trim was all painted a glossy white that was peeling showing where it had been painten a teal green before. This photo shows the trim after it is stripped but before refinishing.

front porch

front porch, originally uploaded by Kimberly4.

The door is oak veneer. It was very sun bleached but turned out well with refinishing.

Restoration Bonanza

This year has been our most productive year of the three years that we have owned this house. The exterior is painted. The interior trim in the living room, dining room, front bedroom/tv room and hallway have now been stripped and refinished and then the walls were repainted. (The colors didn't come out anything like I expected but I do like the results.)

We had central heat and air installed. Woohoo! Our house now looks and feels like a completely different house. Finally no more peeling paint! It almost seems like the house of someone who must be far more adult then us. It no longer looks like a college rental.

My summer has been spent finishing all of the exterior and interior projects that were started but needed more attention.
I have been referring to myself as the "house slave." I would feel sorry for myself, but I did still manage to sleep in untill 9 or 10 each day, and I always quit work by 4 or 5. So it hasn't been all that bad.

List of projects:
1) I stained the beadboard ceiling on the porch but then didn't like the result. It was too uneven, so I primed and painted it instead.
2) I primed and painted the door trim. This was also going to be stained, but I felt that it wouldn't go that well with the dark house color so I opted to paint it the trim and sash colors.
3) I bleached, sanded, stained and varnished the front door. It is quartersawn oak veneer that was really sun bleached unevenly from where a screen door had been. It took a lot of effort to get it even looking.
4) I patched all of the holes in the walls from the electrical rewiring from last year, and I patched all of the cracked areas from the central air/heat installation. I patched around the ceiling registers and took the registers down and spray painted them copper and bronze.Then I primed and painted all of the patched areas.
5) I stripped the paint from our porch star light and then taped each glass pane ( Joel helped with this) and primed and sprayed it a bronze color.
6) I sanded, stained, and varnished all of the woodwork in the hallway including its 6 doors. I then repainted the walls a purple color.
7) This weekend joel helped me repaint our bedroom. I had already done the closet the week before. We choose a brown milk chocolate color that is really p