White Paint and Couches!

We knew that the brown of the front door was not going to work with the browns in the room. After debating over the merits of different colors, we decided that a white door would be the best for the room.

Being a vinyl door, we were faced with some interesting challenges. Regular primers didn't work at all, so after some serious eyebrow scrunching, we realized how silly we had been:

Vinyl is just plastic!

Three and a half cans of spray paint later, and a VERY sore pointer finger, we had a white door!!

Java loved the white door!

She was a bat for Halloween!

 But that's not all, folks. There was still MORE white paint to be painted!

We were quite tired of not being able to have all our kitchen wares out and usable, so Barb painted the INSIDE of the bottom cabinets and drawers.  This way, we could move things down from the upstairs closets, and into the kitchen. It was so nice to have bowls and service wear back!!!

Barb's Mom, Joanne, came to visit us at the end of October. She was a champ, and followed us around all day on Saturday sitting on couches with us. We finally settled on an AWESOME couch. It was the exact color, texture, and firmness that we wanted. The only problem was that it had a VERY bold pattern on one half of the pillow. And this bright pattern of yellow, pink, orange, and brown, was the exact opposite of everything we wanted in our front room. For the time being, we just turned around the pillows, and pretended they were normal. hehe