Nook What I Did! Nook What I Did!

The question that appears to be on everyone's minds is "What colors are you going to paint your rooms, Amber?" Sorry to disappoint, but the answer is STILL: I don't know. But I now have THREE rooms taped and primed and anxiously waiting for some glorious color to coat them.

Tonight my partner in house renovating crime, Stephen, came over around 7pm to help me prep and prime my breakfast nook.

Painting is FUN!

But before you get to see our handiwork, first let's review the earlier part of my day. First I went to Poway to sweat and watch my friend Max compete in a downhill skateboarding competition (view some pics). And here I thought Thrashin' just made that up for a plot device! Then Max, Matt, Mike and I (I need to change my name to Mamber) surfed Tabletops (very pretty, clear water, but super shallow, fast breaking reef break which I'm not really a fan of).

After all the fun stuff, I got home around 3 and did some work on the house which I've been neglecting all week. It's summer after all! I've got beaches to play volleyball at and waves to surf people.

I finally got the last shelves in the bathroom lined and was able to unpack the last box sitting in the guest bedroom. I'm still waiting for Erika to bring over the rest of the bedroom furniture she so awesomely gave me so the room isn't done, but look - a room without boxes!

My guest bedroom. It gets a ton of light and that bed is super comfy. I think it'll be my Sunday morning, read-in-bed room =)

Next I busted out my new pruning shears and went Edward Scissorhands on some of my foliage. First, the tree branch that was smashed up against my bedroom window. No more leaves threatening to break through my window screen. But now my 80 year old neighbor Al will have a clear view into my room when the curtains are open. Then I attacked the Little Shop of Horrors bush by my front door.

Here it is the day I bought the house.

My greens bin after I Scissorhanded the bush.

After.

Now that I see the picture, I have a vision. I'm going to cut all the branches on the bottom half off, so it's just a semi-rectangular bush up on top. Today I didn't have vision, I just wanted to tame it. Look - you can actually see my breakfast nook window!

Then I started prepping the breakfast nook while I waited for Stephen to come over. Prepping means I was using the paint scrapper to remove the bumpy and peeling sections of the old latex paint that was underneath the wallpaper I removed.

The breakfast nook before we started.

Once Stephen showed up, we taped and primed the walls so they'll be ready for the unknown shade of blue I want to paint (something in the aqua family, I want a bright, fun nook).

The nook after we primed. I didn't notice how white that room looked until I downloaded this picture!

Do you see what's new in there (besides the primer)? We brought the infamous penis table in from outside! I like my table. And once I get a color on the walls and the utility table on the right side of the picture out, this room won't look so glaringly sterile.

The original breakfast nook table finally makes it's way inside.