I've gotten kind of lazy about posting. I have no excuse, really, just haven't felt like it. That, and my camera memory has been full because I had to take pictures of all of Jason's books so we'd know where to put them back after I painted. These are pictures of the back wall of the living room. I finally got around to taking care of some of the things on my to do list around the house. I put up the curtain rods in the living room that I bought in August. They're Simply Shabby Chic, from Target. It was the first time I'd ever used a power drill or put up curtains, and they turned out well, except the left one is slightly crooked, but I'm willing to live with that haha. I also put my vintage bird prints back up finally. Some things to ignore in the pictures- the horrible walls and the Rock Band drums haha. It really bothers both of us that the living room is completely decorated, and we have the paint upstairs, but we can't finish it until the plaster is redone. We've even thought about painting over the mess, but that would be really bad. It will be a huge job to paint though, there's a high ceiling, tons of trim, and 5 doors that we will have to strip with a heat gun (lead paint and all) and repaint. But I know it's going to look great when it's repainted, it's my favorite room in the house, and has more original features than anywhere else. It's going to be the same blue-gray with ultra white trim that's in the entryway. As for the library, it's coming along, but there's still much to do. I finished the walls, and the trim on the walls with the books, as well as the windows on one wall. I also painted 3/4 of the ceiling, enough that we could put the books back. But, I hit a snag when I ran out of ceiling paint, so until I get back to Lowe's, I'm going to paint the other windows. The bright white ceiling paint makes such a difference, since the ceiling in there is low, and it had tons of tiny cracks that have now disappeared. So, as for what I have left to paint- the baseboards in half the room, the windows on one side, the rest of the ceiling, the four doors and the door trim, the ceiling in the alcove, the ceiling in the closets, and the closets themselves. Also, we bought some shelves at an antique store that I'm going to paint with the green paint and put in the alcove. So yeah, almost done haha. I can't decide whether I should paint the closets white, or just use the leftover green paint, since we don't have anything else to use it for.
On Sunday we're going to rent a van from U Haul and get 2 new bookcases from Target, and hopefully the vintage craft table I've been wanting. We were going to go yesterday, but unfortunately Jason wasn't feeling well, so I'm crossing my fingers that the table is still there. If I have time I might see if I can put it on hold. The sad part is that the two bookcases we're buying probably won't even put a dent in all of the books we have that don't have homes. But the less sad part is that, after not being able to find them for 2 years, I finally located the cheap basic bookcases at Target that we already have. With the number of books we have, there's no way we could buy nice cases for all of them, and I think the cheap ones look nice anyway.