In living color

This post has pictures from Saturday, July 26.  There are two flavors of stuff here, wooden floors and painted walls, with a sprinkling of weather conditions tossed in.

The floors were about half-way done when we stopped in on Saturday.  This one is looking at the dining room from somewhere near the front door.

The stuff under the wood is this:

We decided to get the wooden registers that are flush with the floor, instead of metal registers attached to the top of the floor.  Better looks, and fewer snagged socks when Bettie or I go sliding across the floor.

The gloopy junk that patches the holes is

And the floor looks good, even before it's all down, and before it is stained.

This is where the hallway (wooden floor) goes into the laundry room (vinyl floor).  We call this picture "the meeting of the toes".

Yes, those are flip-flops on my feet.  It was a rainy day, and I didn't want to get my knock-off Crocs messy.

How messy was it?  I think Bettie's qualified to be an off-road racer now.

She's also a window-sill color picker

And a room inspector

Which brings us to room colors.  The blue room above is the spare bedroom.  The orange one is the computer room.  The spare room is all blue.  The computer room is not all orange.  The computer room window faces south, so there will be lots of good light coming into the room.  The wall opposite the window is painted white, to splash the light around.  The wall with the window in it is painted green, to complement the trees and field through the window.  At the carport end of the room is the brown wall, for a nice background to the computer screens.  And the orange wall is where the closet is, to give a splash of brightness to the whole thing.

   

It wasn't intentional, but the orange wall is visible from the carport door entering the house.  I think that's neat.

For other rooms, we're having a brown in the great room (kitchen, dining room, living room).  You can see that they saved paint by leaving the walls bare behind where the cabinets will be.

The hallway is a lighter brown.  This is the coat closet down near the carport door.

The master bedroom.  I didn't want a light purple, so we compromised on this cream color.

And the laundry room, just inside the carport door.  The doorway you see the edge of here is into the master bath.

Color details may look different in real life as opposed to these pictures.  We try, but the shadings (especially the brown wall behind the computers) look very different based on flash/no flash, outside light, and phase of the moon.  Something like that.