A bit of hard work

Yesterday I did something I've been wanting to do for 7 years. I painted all my doors in the apartment. The interior ones got a coat of white paint and the front one is now ultramarine blue on the outside, with white on the inside to match the interior of the house.

I'm totally amazed at the difference it makes! My little place was all pokey and old-fashioned before with dark-wood doors and surrounds. It looks huge and light and fresh now! Light just bounds around the place.

Unfortunately there's a BIG down-side....now that your eye no longer gets held up by a dark block of wood, it goes straight to things like the peeling paint in the bathroom, the piled-high bookshelf in the bedroom and a few finger-marks on the kitchen walls.....so it seems I have a little extra work in front of me over the rest of my holiday!

I managed to wheedle some white exterior paint off the maintenance guys and did my outside front wall on the verandah, which they initially thought was cream it was so old. There's a bit left, so the next big job is stripping peeling paint and redoing some interiors. After which my sis-in-law is welcome to arrive for her proposed Painting Party. She's got a butternut-colour paint remnant that we'll be mixing with white. I'm not a fan of dark walls, and know that the lighter the paint the bigger the room looks. So we're going cream instead of yellow-orange.

Amazing what a little paint can do. It's got me all fired up to sort out the entire house! And I've discovered muscles in my hands and shoulders that apparently have been lying disused for a while....!