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Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately.
Spent all day Saturday painting the patio/Florida room. I think I picked a really nice color for the tile we're putting in there -- a marble gray. Unfortunately, it didn't match the color of the walls, which were olive green. That was my fault. I picked a color I liked but didn't consider the big picture. And because we had already purchased and layed some of the tile, we had to take a step back and spend a weekend taping off and painting the room. The BF has more energy than I do, so he spent some of Friday knocking out most of the taping. I went through Saturday morning and cleaned up some of his crooked tape (groan), then tarped off the tiles that we had previously put down.
The room is "cobalt gray" now, and it looks pretty sharp. I can't wait to peel the tape off the baseboards and ceiling to see how the edges came out.
Next weekend, we finish laying the tile, and I figure the weekend after that we do the grout.
What a job. Neither me nor the BF are handymen, and I don't particularly enjoy working on the house or doing home improvements. I don't think it's that I'm that lazy, it's just that my interests are elsewhere. But when it's all said and done, there will be some satisfaction in knowing we did it ourselves. It'll be a room we can brag about.
Current mood: Disillusioned