Painting Finally Done + More....

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Progress finally...

The painting in the Living Room is finally done.
All I have left is one more coat around the trim on the double doors and windows.
No more Easter egg blue. I went with the same gray in my bedroom. The blue was too much and I hated being in there...but now, with the gray, it's pretty relaxing (I even fell asleep on the couch after putting up the last of the paint).

A disorganized peak. There is still a lot of work left in this room like, some kind of bookshelving, lamps, lots of prints that need to be framed, pillows, a new wood coffee table, window treatments for the double doors etc. etc. And I hate to say it but I really am thinking about selling this couch and getting something else sometime in the next few months:

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I have so many photographs and prints to get framed. The most important group are four original Ford Times Charley Harper hand screened (by Harper) serigraphs that I desperately need to get framed for this room. I'm stuck b/c I can't afford professional framing right now and I am kind of scared to do it myself. But I really really need to get them done and up. They need to be protected behind archival matting and UV-blocking glass, not sitting between cardboard pieces in a closet. I wonder how much I could save by ordering the parts to size and putting them together myself, like students would do in the photo department for shows:

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Also, since Gray can leap onto anything from the ground all Bionic Woman like, I am now thinking I may need a glass door book cabinet for my breakable pottery, ceramics. She broke one a few months ago after leaping up onto the mantle.

I flipped through an IKEA this morning...
Would love open floor to ceiling like this...


And then there are lots of glass door options:



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Two photographs I found on Apartment Therapy last week..
I love the couch:


And these bookcases:


Oh, and yesterday I finally put together a little 4 part cubby hole piece for my daughter's room (to hold her growing record collection). It worked out perfectly under the window and I would kinda love one for the books littering the floor under the window in my room..

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I am about to tackle the yard, starting in the front b/c I know my neighbors are just loving the 6" weeds that have taken over the lawn....
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