The living room and dining room are done! They are painted a wonderful golden yellow. The existing wall color, off-white, looked like they were hanging around in their underwear. Now they have clothes on. And accessories too!
Too bad the photo hanging over the buffet in the dining room does show better in this picture. It's a spectacular panorama of Green Lake in the high Sierra of California, a gift/going away present from the photographer, a dance partner/friend. You can check it out here:
http://cookseytalbottgallery.com/thumbs_panorama3.php?gaPageNumber=1&gaGallery=APPDEV_GALLERY_highsierrapano
But, alas, the studio still looks like this:
but probably not for much longer. Yesterday I drove a friend to the airport in Charlotte (she had to use Charlotte instead of Asheville because she needed to take her cat on the plane and Charlotte airport flies bigger planes), and since I was all the way there ( a two-hour drive) I made the pilgrimage to Ikea, and bought some furniture that will go into the studio. So that will be the next project AFTER I paint the bedroom a deep velvety blue. She is still in her underwear.
The office is in pretty good shape. It looks out onto this gorgeous crepe myrtle:
But I don't spend as much time in there as I should because I'm so busy having fun. Last week I went hiking at Black Balsam in the Blue Ridge mountains.
The views were pretty spectacular, though not like the high Sierra, still pretty darn good.
And now I know why they're called the Blue Ridge.
I've joined a writing group, and classes at the University start in a few weeks - I signed up for three, so even after the room painting is done, the crazy busy will continue. Ah, life is good!
