Primer, Grout, and Draperies OUT

We're busy here at That Old House.
It is just 12 days until our daughter's wedding.
The reception won't be here at the house, but the After Party will be.

It's best bib and tucker time.

Although if you looked at the house today,

you might think otherwise:

That's Danny, painter extraordinaire, starting to prime the old clapboards.

(Me 'n Danny, we love that oily smell.)

He was kneeling in the grass; he may have been praying.

This is one big project to finish in a week, even with a crew of four.

It took one or two workers 3 days to scrape loose paint off the house, and they're still doing that on the other side.

Please ignore the painters' schmutz on the translucent ceiling, and MY mess on the table -- it's all mess around here this week!

Luckily, no one expects 182-year old siding to be perfectly smooth.  Certainly not me.  (I?)

Inside the house, it's my show.

Howard took down the dining room draperies for me last night; I'll turn their fabric into seat covers

for our oddball collection of dining room chairs, and hang something new at the windows in the next day or so.

It's funny, but the room seems smaller without the drapery panels.

Why is that?

You can spy ladders and paint cans and painter stuff out on the grass of the side yard.

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"Hey, Hon, you want some chocolate mousse?"

 Well who knew -- certainly not I -- that dirt-colored tile grout looks unnervingly like chocolate mousse?
Lesson learned -- don't grout while hungry.

And there you have it, in one concise collage, my grouting of the kitchen sink backsplash.

Now I only have to install it, and run a bit of thin molding along the bottom, and . . . .

I'll get back to you.  -- Cass

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