It has been a hectic several weeks. After taking about a year off from doing any major house stuff mainly due to burn out, we went crazy. Just check out our reality show: Homeowners Gone Wild! A lot of projects that were on the drawing board just came to fruition.
For a long time we have been looking for art for the walls. It’s been a long and difficult task. We would find something and not like it and return then when we could. A few areas of the house were causing us pain when trying to get something to fit. One of our biggest problems was getting something for the living room’s 20-footish wall. We could not find anything. Then Deborah found Gallery Direct, which is a local Austin art house that has custom sizes including the 4.5ft by 5.5ft canvas art that now adorns the wall. We also found some cool black and white plant photos that are above the stairs at an angle. The real nice thing about Gallery Direct is not only their selection but the option of material you can select from. We do recommend them.
Speaking about art and paint… after a year and a half I finally had the time and the will to paint some of our cinder block walls. Two rooms have part of the wall made from cinder block. We decided to make them accent walls. It took forever to figure the colors but we picked Adobe Sun and Colombian Coffee. Anything named after caffeine has gotta be good… except for Sun’s Java. That is just plain evil. We used the kick ass Mythic Paint that we got from Zinger Hardware. If you have not been to Zinger Hardware in Austin you have to check it out. It’s a cool Retro hardware store with modern products. Now if you never painted cinder block before let me warn you, it’s like painting a sponge. I don’t mean a Sponge Bob Square Pants type; I mean a bottomless maw of a sponge. It took several coats of primer and the main color for it to come out even but the final result was awesome. As one of our neighbors once said “What a difference a colors makes”.
While I was painting away Deborah found a really cool lighting site called Seascape Lamps that made custom lamps and lamp shades. We found one we liked and ordered it. When we got it something was off but we could not figure out what. Then my mother-in-law stopped by (Insert Imperial March here) and mentioned that the shade was too bright and that we should tea stain it. Using the power of the interwebs Deborah looked up how to tea stain and Valla! We now have a great looking lamp.
Those are just a sample of the major things we have gotten done in the interior. We have been doing lots of little things as well. The DIY channel and the like have spawned mini projects all over the place. We have touched up paint, dressed up computer/electrical wires, clean windows and terminated speaker cabling just to name a few.
Well that’s all for now. Oh wait… we have been doing lots of yard/landscaping as well… but that is a blog post for another time.
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