Orange you glad i didn't say banana?

Last week I decided I would convert one of the bedrooms into a "knitting room" for Double E so she would have a place to practice the fiber arts in solitude instead of bothering me to change the channel during game 6 of NBA Western Conference Finals whilst she honed her craft in the living room chair next to me. Basically, she was fuckin up the integrity of my man time. Anyway, i put her to work stripping the border paper that was around the edge of the walls and the subsequent removal of the adhesive left on the walls. While she did this, i pulled up the tackboard from around the edge of the room ... it was leftover from when i ripped out the carpet. I was using this room primarily as storage, so i never got a chance to get the strips up even though they had been removed everywhere else.

it only took me about 15 minutes to get it off. notice the hammer and pry bar ... tools of choice.











Here is Double E doing God knows what ... however, you can see the trim paper (if you look closely you can see the overspray from the removal solution) and the off white trim and doors that are in every room.









Anyway, after we finished out respective jobs, we went ahead and put primer on all the trim and doors and then gave them a coat of bright white paint (i am painting all interior trim bright white - i dig heavy contrast)

the next day, Double E embarked on her journey to her homestate of Ohio while i secretly went to work on the room. it looked like this when i bought the house ...

YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! i think i can taste my own vomit when i look at this picture.











so, when Double E returned it looked like this ...
Ahhhhhh ... that's more like it. Off white carpet ... gone! floral drapes ... gone! trim paper ... gone! pretty much anything that resembled the old room ... gone and gone again for good measure!

Double E's favorite color is orange, which i like sparingly, see i found a shade we could both agree upon called Pumpkin Spice ... pretty cool.











view from the other doorway.


















then added some shelving ...
she has a lot of yarn. seriously. oh, did i mention the hardwoods? why they carpeted these i will never know ... shame on you 70's and all of the bad ideas inspired there within.










this picture has nothing to do with the room, really. it just further cements the notion that Nona is an instrument of the devil ...

this is right before she shot lasers out of her eyes at that monkey on the floor.












then i moved in some furniture ...
that is a really cool Warren chair from the 50s that i found in excellent condition. it sits lowrider style and is oversized comfy. notice the herd of knitting items that have already begun to graze in this room?

not pictured: the cube shelves ... which are filled with yarn and what not. it is a passion i will never understand no matter how much i try.











needless to say, Double E was pretty geeked when she saw the room.