Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

I got a good amount of painting done yesterday - the rest of the pantry baseboards, the bead board wall and 1 baseboard and door trim in the kitchen and 2 coats on the legs and apron of an old '30's enamel-topped kitchen table that was in the house when we moved in. That's going into the pantry to hold the fax machine I need to get and the answering machine. I have some 30's printed cotton tablecloths that will add some color to the table. I also scrubbed the wool floor.

And I'll be shopping for some flat-bottomed baskets to line the shelves of a metal rack that's in that room. The baskets will add warmth and texture and hold all the bits and bobs that were in the dresser we moved into the library - light bulbs, extension cords, all those things one needs to have handy.

I have a CompUSA gift card, but CompUSA has no stores near us - it's either all the way down to White Plains, yeah right, or an hour north to Albany, so Albany it is, but not until this coming weekend. It'll pay for most of the fax machine.

So, hubby is putting up the new ceiling fixture we bought at Home Depot on Saturday and, except for putting up a few repro crate label signs, the pantry is done and what an improvement over that horrid green-ish blue wallpaper that was in there.

Next, he has to work on the dining room and parlor ceilings. Old plaster ceilings do get cracks in them, from time to time, but their are plaster washers that one uses to secure the plaster. Then you spackle over it, sand, spackle again, sand, then paint.

While he's doing that, I need to start removing things from the family room and my office/shipping rooms, so we can tackle cleaning the carpets, and painting the walls and ceilings. I need to see how I'm going to do this with the least interruption to my business, though - she said, laughing nervously......