Check another off the Honey-do list

Firstly - I figured it was about time to update the blog photo of the house.  I was up around 5am so thought it was as good a time as any.  Everything looked nearly perfect - the sun was just breaking the horizon and had a red glow to it,  the front of the house has light shadow across the porch area and the background mountains showed the typical lifting fog that gives them a smokey look.  But - by the time I got what I thought was going to be a good shot the sun had moved up farther on the horizon and the lighting was starting to overpower the picture.  I took it right quick before it got any worse.  So there you have it - 5:30am on our mountain.
I finally got Cathy's high priority item checked off the Honey-do list.  She wanted her living room done over and that's what we did.

 

It took about 3 days with both of us working together.  We moved all the furniture into the middle of the room, took down all the wall decorations, removed all the wooden trim from floors, doors and windows, and filled all the holes in the walls and sanded them smooth.  This wasn't just the living room cause this house is an open floor plan.  So it included the kitchen, dining room, and utility room.  Cathy had already decided she wanted a chair rail, crown molding, two tone walls and darker trim, and that's what she got.  She painted most of the trim and moldings while I painted all the walls.  I cheated on the crown molding cause I hate cutting the compound miter for the corners (upside down and backwards) and at my age, I'm easily confused.  Actually age has nothing to do with it.  Anyway I used the quick corners from Lowes.  All you do is run the molding up to the corner then set the corner piece that joins both pieces of crown molding.  I never realized just how out of square/plumb walls and ceilings could be until I started this project.  I even added some new words to my vocabulary.  Got a little more touch work to do and we'll be done.  NEXT!!!!!