Angie and Mike's Blog

We have an unfinished wall surrounding our stairs to the basement. Of course, the stair nose to the flooring can't go in until the wall is done. We painted our master bath last weekend and the color makes us want to puke. So, instead of working on any of those projects, last night we decided to start renovations in what will be the office.


And it needs a lot of work. The poor kid who had this as a bedroom is a NASCAR fan. They went a bit overboard on the theme.


We had to remove a strip of wall paper border that cut the wall in half all the way around the room.


I like driving and the movie Cars but I can't really tell you anything about racing. They go fast and make left turns. That's about it. I've got a few ideas for this space. I'm going to decorate it to reflect my interest in Heartland Photography. I can't decide if I want green walls with a chocolate-redish accent wall. Or if I want to paint the top two-thirds of the walls green and the bottom third chocolate-redish. Or all green with chocolate-redish squares to serve as frames for the picture frames. Too many ideas. It can't get finished soon enough!

Labels: Bella Vista, homeowners

It's been so long since we've done a Harley-hoo slideshow. Since we just moved into the house and found a great song, we decided to grab all the great snaps from the past year in the apartment. Rest assured that we've already started taking new pictures of her in the house. Hopefully it won't take us another year to do another show!

**Click here** to see it!

Labels: apartment, Harley

Angie and I learned a very valuable lesson today regarding home improvement projects: Do not buy paint based on its name, even if the name matches the theme you're trying to create. As a result of doing this, our master bathroom now looks like blue Pepto-Bismol. Or cotton candy. The color, produced by Valspar, which I'll never buy again for other reasons, is called Harbor Mist. We're trying to achieve a tropical theme and we thought it played well with the colors of our bedroom and linens. I had second thoughts as soon as I started trimming out but didn't say anything in hopes that it would look different after it was finished.

Not so much.

So as most weekend days have it, we made a second run to the home improvement store so we could get more samples. We only bought a quart of Harbor Mist the first time as we thought that would be enough. We came up just a bit short, which is fine with me.

What does this color of blue remind you of?

Labels: Bella Vista, homeowners

I should be blogging about how the house renovations are coming along. To update, we've finished painting the dining and living rooms, kitchen, hallway and entry way and the laminate is almost completely installed. We've selected paint colors for the bathrooms and bedrooms and will begin taping soon. We also purchased new faucets for both bathroom sinks. But, as important as all of that is, something else significant happened today. As Angie and I were heading back home from dropping off Antonio and grocery shopping, Romeo rolled 200,000 miles. I'm very proud and very satisfied that I own a Toyota. I will definitely buy another one but I'm hoping Romeo is only half done.