Happy New Year, everyone! And we have a new mayor! Yay!

Sometimes I take New Year’s Day off to do something fun, like jump in the Atlantic. Last year we crashed the car. That wasn’t fun. This year the hubby and I just stayed in to work on some home repairs.

We finally got a step closer to finishing the recycled door wainscoting and wall in the kitty fire corner. Still needs some caulking and baseboard. Notice I didn’t see that we “finished it”.

It wasn’t our intention to match the original wainscoting on the right exactly. Had we wanted to do that, we would have searched for that specific style in the local salvage shops. If all else failed, we could have reproduced the lines as was done when we repaired some panels. But I wanted to use those doors! So, it doesn’t match, but I love the idea that we got to recycle those doors that we had no use for.

The blue wall above the wainscot was painted over four years ago. Luckily, the paint was still in the house. Unluckily, it was not from the gallon that went on the walls originally. Oh, I’m sure it would have been fine four years ago, but the fresh coat of touch up doesn’t match the darkened and dirty old paint. Rather than redo the whole room, I’ll just try to match the color better. I’m not even crazy about doing that little bit of extra work.

Hubby took down a crumbling plaster wall in the front foyer, insulated, sheetrocked and added a light and bell while I was painting the wrong color. I guess he wins this round. But guess who has to do the taping (in a few years)? Yeah, I’m the finishing gal.