The Glade 4.0

Here are a few more shots I dug up. First two are the downstairs living room/dining room and the others is the little guys upstairs bedroom. You can at least see the light green (I think it's called pear or something) of the living room. Nice color imo:






Upstairs bedroom, it's bright... but awesome! Man I had to strip like 374 coats of hideous paint off those window moldings and then stain it to look like they do in these pictures. Compared to that, painting the room was easy. Oh, and I've since replaced those crappy windows. Yesh.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

VERY nice, Dash!! I love the wood with the paint. Excellent touch.
How did you strip all the paint off?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Took forever because of all the coats, but they sell some goop that you just brush on there, wait a while (few hours I think or overnight) and then scrape it off. Works really well actually. Most of the paint just slides right off.

After that I took a mix of wire brushes, steel wool and some sanding bricks and got the wood to look good. Then just regular stain, and some polyurethane coating. Not as hard as it may sound.

I only stripped it because the woodwork in the house is very nice. I wanted to preserve it. If you dont need to do that, replacing is definitely easier but probably more expensive.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Ummm, yeah, what they said. I have no talent for picking colors either. I let my wife choose the colors and I just perform the manual labor.

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~Tolyn~

"A penny for your thoughts; $20 to act it out."

Where can I get a wife?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

You are one.

Try Memphis. it is the nearest big city with a LGBT scene. Take Nitefox with you, I'm sure he will want approval rights.

Here, some spots to start looking courtesy of About.Com

http://memphis.about.com/od/glbt/tp/glbtbars.htm

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"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I don't suggest "redoing" the walls, if by that you mean removing the sheetrock/plaster and replacing it. I suggest instead using a 6" or larger putty knife and scrape it across the surface of the walls, holding blade at about a 20-30 degree angle to wall. This will 1) remove any particles, like dirt, stuck in the paint from when it was last painted, and 2) locate old nails and picture hangers still stuck in the wall, and 3) the knife will leave rub marks on the existing paint that show where you have irregularities in the wall surface.

Removing existing contaminants from the paint, like the dirt, will give you a much smoother surface for the next coat of paint, providing a better quality look. If there are old nails or other things in the wall that the blade can't get over (stops you from moving forward when scraping), if you have drywall (sheetrock) for walls, you can remove the nail and then use a hammer to dimple the spot where it was to knock the damage back in. You actually want to dent the drywall a little bit, quarter inch or so, so that you can fill and even the spot with wall compound (also known as mud). If the wall is plaster, remove the nail, and if the plaster has been pocked, take the corner of your putty knife and cut out the damaged area, leaving a small crater where the damage was located, so you can fill and level that spot.

For larger depressions or rises in the wall surface, you can "float" the surface with the wall mud, though depending on the size of the area to be leveled, you will probably want to switch to a 12-18" blade (paint shields work as well, anything with long, straight edge you can hold).

Of course, if was supposed to be a temporary arrangement, I would suggest having a gut check on just how much more "temporary" this arrangement might be, and how much money you want to spend that will likely be undone. Its one of the odd things about selling homes... people like the pictures in magazines of rooms with nice color on the walls, but when it comes to selling, homes with neutral palettes sell more easily. That's why most homes just built all have walls called "Contractor White".