The theme of Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar is resurrection; "Behold, all thing have become new!" writes Paul to the church in Corinth.
Feeling the coming Pascal tide, Sue declared in mid-March, "Easter house!" Time for the old to become new. The primary focus of the renewal activity was in what we refer to as "Grant's room", though he has moved out, gone to college, and we are proud to say, has since found work and does not seem to be coming back to reclaim is former domain. We, his parents are grateful. The old "Grant's room" is to be transformed into "guest room".
Major mucking was his mother's first chore, though not herculean, it was a challenge. A phone consultation with the former resident as to what was sentimental and a 'must keep' vs the mother's prodding of what 'really must go'; rules of engagement were established. Some things were transferred to Inga's room (no resurrection here - yet) and some went to the Goodwill. With the room cleared, it was more than obvious that a new paint job was in order. My artistic sensibilities were called upon, and I chose a color scheme of light green walls with two accent walls of a contrasting creamy golden yellow. It works.
There is a TV commercial that has been running for years locally featuring Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan, pitching for a foundation repair service. Nolan tells us, "Cracks are bad - especially around doors and windas." As usual, Nolan is right. Here we had half a dozen significant settling cracks in the drywall going back to the great drought of 2014 that wreaked havoc on our foundation.
So before we painted, I insisted that a silver dollar-sized hole in the bedroom drywall needed to be patched. And as long as we were summoning the powers of resurrection, it was time to fix those bad cracks around the rest of the house. I taped, scraped, mudded and feathered repair compound around and over the cracked drywall for several days. Layer by layer. Then I applied knock-down spackle, primed and painted. I wish I took a before and after photo of my work, as it turned out, behold! I have the power to make old flaws pass away and the walls to look like new. My handiwork looks really pretty good.
With the muck gone, a fresh coat of paint in a snappy color combo and the furniture rearranged to accommodate guest better, we have a bonifide guest room. It is a resurrection miracle.
Y'all come by and see us now, ya hear?
Feeling the coming Pascal tide, Sue declared in mid-March, "Easter house!" Time for the old to become new. The primary focus of the renewal activity was in what we refer to as "Grant's room", though he has moved out, gone to college, and we are proud to say, has since found work and does not seem to be coming back to reclaim is former domain. We, his parents are grateful. The old "Grant's room" is to be transformed into "guest room".
Major mucking was his mother's first chore, though not herculean, it was a challenge. A phone consultation with the former resident as to what was sentimental and a 'must keep' vs the mother's prodding of what 'really must go'; rules of engagement were established. Some things were transferred to Inga's room (no resurrection here - yet) and some went to the Goodwill. With the room cleared, it was more than obvious that a new paint job was in order. My artistic sensibilities were called upon, and I chose a color scheme of light green walls with two accent walls of a contrasting creamy golden yellow. It works.
There is a TV commercial that has been running for years locally featuring Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan, pitching for a foundation repair service. Nolan tells us, "Cracks are bad - especially around doors and windas." As usual, Nolan is right. Here we had half a dozen significant settling cracks in the drywall going back to the great drought of 2014 that wreaked havoc on our foundation.
So before we painted, I insisted that a silver dollar-sized hole in the bedroom drywall needed to be patched. And as long as we were summoning the powers of resurrection, it was time to fix those bad cracks around the rest of the house. I taped, scraped, mudded and feathered repair compound around and over the cracked drywall for several days. Layer by layer. Then I applied knock-down spackle, primed and painted. I wish I took a before and after photo of my work, as it turned out, behold! I have the power to make old flaws pass away and the walls to look like new. My handiwork looks really pretty good.
With the muck gone, a fresh coat of paint in a snappy color combo and the furniture rearranged to accommodate guest better, we have a bonifide guest room. It is a resurrection miracle.
Y'all come by and see us now, ya hear?
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