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madrobinsThis has been a big week for household renovation: yesterday the guy from the cabinet store came and met with the contractor and the contractor's foreman (a nice guy with a Russian accent and eccentric dentition) to measure the kitchen for the cabinets. This appears to be a very finicky thing, and the measurements depend upon many things: is the ceiling level (no, no one's ceiling is completely level. Certainly mine isn't); how many layers of floor are going to be taken up, and what will that do to the relative placement of the cabinets, appliances, and new flooring; whether the size of a new refrigerator will require resizing the wall next to it (I'd been planning on a 33" wide refrigerator, but they're the old-fashioned depth--30 inches give or take. What the cabinet guy is pushing for a cabinet-depth refrigerator, 36" wide, which costs more, but will mean that the fridge is level with the cabinets and all will be beautiful). I've spent the last couple of days poring over Consumer Reports, looking for the right combination of beauty, feature, price and sturdiness--then trying to find those models for sale somewhere on this planet. Somehow the notion of buying a refrigerator via the internet is just a little too 21st Century for me.
In the meantime, some people may remember that I embarked on a project to strip the raffia-on-copper-foil wallpaper from the hall and stairwell. Over the course of three months I got most of the upstairs hall and downstairs hall mostly stripped except for those stubborn patches that refused to yield to my blandishments; the stairwell, above a certain point, defeated me. So this week Izet (see "guy with Russian accent and eccentric dentition," above) finished scraping and sanding, skim-coated the walls, and began to paint. And it looks gorgeous. Formerly the lower half of the stairwell walls and all the trim were painted a blushy beige. Now the trim and the lower parts of the wall are a grayish celery color, and the upper part is a khaki-ish olive. It looks fresh and clean and beautiful. I do the Nesting Happy Dance!
In the meantime, some people may remember that I embarked on a project to strip the raffia-on-copper-foil wallpaper from the hall and stairwell. Over the course of three months I got most of the upstairs hall and downstairs hall mostly stripped except for those stubborn patches that refused to yield to my blandishments; the stairwell, above a certain point, defeated me. So this week Izet (see "guy with Russian accent and eccentric dentition," above) finished scraping and sanding, skim-coated the walls, and began to paint. And it looks gorgeous. Formerly the lower half of the stairwell walls and all the trim were painted a blushy beige. Now the trim and the lower parts of the wall are a grayish celery color, and the upper part is a khaki-ish olive. It looks fresh and clean and beautiful. I do the Nesting Happy Dance!