Chaos

The first floor of our house is in utter disarray. But it's nothing to worry about; it's just that we've finally gotten around to painting.

Some time ago, Karen found a great deal on what Lowes calls "oops paint." That's paint that, for one reason or another, is the wrong color. It doesn't mean that it's an ugly color, just that it's not what the customer originally ordered. Lowes sells these at a substantial discount, and so you get really good paint for a fraction of the cost, if you can live with the color.

In Karen's case, it's six different colors. Nothing boring for our house full of artists. No, our main living floor is going to be done in stripes of color. So far we've managed to get two colors up and the results look great. Because we have to let each color cure for three days before we can apply masking tape, it's going to take us until early next week to finish all the colors.

We'll use this as an opportunity to rearrange the furniture a bit, too, and lay the last small section of floor that his been hidden until heavy furniture until now. No sense moving that stuff twice!

The really tricky part, though, will be painting around the direct-vent heater.

This could get interesting.