Sunday, November 11, 2007

Music to paint/clean up after painting to

Five doors each with fifteen panes of glass: all painted, one coat of primer, two top coats semi-gloss, one with three coats because it had been stained a very dark brown... all painted, all the blue painter's tape removed... now all that's left is to get one of those single-sided razor blades and scrape off the bits of paint that escaped the painter's tape. And paint the radiators. I think that's it--for the big room! Still the rest of the house to go.

Soundtrack: Bruce Springsteen's "Greatest Hits", Amy Winehouse "Back to Black", Rachmaninov "Symphony no. 2 in B minor", BBC Symphonic... Elvis "Love Songs" volume one (why didn't they include Kentucky Rain???), Radio Caroline Calling 70's flashback with such gems as Radar Love, Silver Machine, Pinball (that one takes me back to making toasted cheese sandwiches in the union at Melton Tech...)

The new sofas arrived yesterday. I have to assemble them: put on the stretch covers, fit the supporting frame and legs together and fasten them on. I need ten arms and about five times my strength (how the heck am I supposed to turn the right-hand sofa and left-hand chaise over to fasten them together????) but will get them done, one day at a time. Yesterday, it was the ottoman/footstool (begin with the easy one): today, the right-hand loveseat/sofa. Still left: left-hand chaise longue (will attach to the sofa), and a stand-alone right-hand chaise long. They are low and are a grey that fits with the kitchen floor tiles and the stainless steel.

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