Chim-chim-a-nee

That was an attempt at the Mary Poppins show where they are all climbing on the roof and singing and dancing. That's where Bob and I were this weekend, on the roof, but we were not dancing. We bought chicken wire and fixed the screen that surrounds our chimney to keep animals out. Both of us are afraid of heights, so to be standing on the roof, on a ladder propped up by two boards and supported on the low side by Bob was a bit scary for me. But we got it done and checked it off our list of home repairs. Only two more to go.



We bought all the supplies to mount the outlet flush in the wall, but it is going to require that we crawl (or shimmy) in our crawl space to run a wire up a wall and to the new location. Not looking forward to that, but the new owners wont let us drop the box into the crawlspace like we asked.....so....we'll be crawling with the bugs next weekend. Oh joy.



On a bright side I realized that it will only cost us $25 in materials to fix everything they wanted. Granted, we had to risk our lives on the roof, and get over the arachnophobia of our crawlspace, but at least it's cheap.

I could not find the pictures to post of the kitchen like I said in my last post, so here are some pictures of our painted paneled room. We should have done this much sooner than we did.



Homeowners tip: You can paint paneling, you don't need to sand it, just use a primer.


The stripes below are from a brush to fill in the grooves, then we used the roller to cover the rest. We did this project over a week. Painted one wall each night when we got home from work. Used some extra paint in the process, but it worked out pretty well.
I was going for an accent wall, and did not like the green once it was on the wall, so we changed.
Decided on Cayenne instead of hunter green.

We really should have done this earlier.....very dramatic change in the room for a cheap cost.