A little reconfiguring

In hindsight, #4 and #10 on my February manini list are somewhat related and will each spread out over more than one day, so I’m smooshing them together and taking care of them today and tomorrow.

The previous owners had a thing for what I call clown colors. Our family room and dining room came complete with a good, thick coat of Pepto-Bismol pink. I don’t think it lasted much more than two months after we moved in; getting rid of the pink and the awful purple in the kitchen were Major Projects #1 & #2.

Of course, we ended up having to repair the furnaces and replace our thermostats soon after I painted. At the time, it was absolutely frigid outside, and we had been without heat for a while, so touching up around the dining room thermostat wasn’t the first thing on my mind. I just wanted that new one stuck on there and making the heat go.

that pink makes me like Pepto-Bismol even less

Let’s just say it’s been that way for a while.

As you can see, there was some chipped paint from when we had to pry the old thermostat off the wall, so that needed to be sanded and spackled, which I took care of today. Because these colors are so dark, it’s going to take two coats of paint. Coat #1 is drying now; I’ll take care of coat #2 tomorrow.

Since I had the spackle in my hands already, I wandered upstairs and realized that there were a lot more holes in a lot more places than I had originally realized when I stuck this on my manini list. The previous owners must have had a lot of shelves and hooks that they took with them.

It took about a half-hour to pull the anchors that needed to be pulled and fill those holes, some nail holes, and some miscellaneous dings in the walls that have been bugging me.

Then, when I went to put the spackle stuff away, I remembered there was one ding in the kitchen behind the coffeemaker that I needed to take care of, so I did that, too.

Because all of the rooms upstairs, other than the hall, are slated to be painted colors other than what they are now, tomorrow I’ll just put a single coat of touch-up on those spots I spackled today and call it good. And I think I’ll be able to get away with that in the kitchen, too.