Monday, April 14, 2008

Out with the red

Down comes the wall



We have always hated this wall in our house. The previous owners made the formal dining room a "den". They did a crap job on the wall. We named the wall the "tweaker wall" because the quality of the job looked like a dude on a week long bender of cry$tal meth# hung the drywall.

Twin #1 going to town on the wall

Making progress

Twin #2 joins in on the action

Becoming one with sluggo the sledge hammer

Almost broke through


HELLO new dining room! After the boys got the wall opened I got in on the action. How cool is it to take out your frustrations out on a poor defenseless tweaker wall?? It feels glorious. With every slug I took I imagined the face of the County Building Dept, the IR$, the CC@@. Sluggo therapy is just what I needed.

Look mom no wall! The down side to this wall removal means the boys Den/TV/music room will be no longer. They are a bit bummed but they will get over it (eventually....). Grady digs it.

Red is out. Red is one of my favorite colors, but it's time for a change. I found this fabric a uposltry fabric store that was going out of business. It was such a steal that I bought all that they had (which was about 20 yards). I am having the chairs to my dining table and some side chairs re-upolstered in this fabric. Trying to find a blue to paint the room has been hard. I don't want it to necessarily be the exact color, just the same shade but lighter. These color swatches are not it I have about 20 other taped up on another wall. In with the blue......


AND.

Can someone tell me why my camera sucks at taking photos? I bought this 0lympus $tylus a few months ago. It takes the suckiest photos. I normally shoot with my Can0n Rebel SLR, but this one seems to be handier to use for fun stuff. But, I can't get a clear shot out of it to save my life. I used to blame operator error but I am slowly finding that this camera sucks. Anyone else have this stupid camera?

8 COMMENTS:

Mamacita said...

That looked fun!

Pug Mama said...

"tweaker wall"
that is PRICELESS! you are my kind of people.
and btw, is there anything better than twin boys? Wouldn't change my boys for the world ;0)

Alana said...

ooh to smash a wall.. that would be heavenly..
and DUDE! you so have a banjo hanging on your wall.. do you KNOW how cool I think you are now???

Kayce said...

Cracking up at the tweaker wall! HAHA!

We just painted our bedroom the best blue I've ever seen...Nantucket Fog in the Benjamin Moore paints. BEAUTIFUL!

Cavatica said...

Awesome! I would love to take out a wall.

Barbara said...

I love smashing things. Looks fun!

Snowflowers Mum said...

ooh, love the fabric, thats from the redhead girl from 'trading spaces' 'laurie somethings' colletion!...look at restoration hardware for colors swatches...they are great! I think some of there recent colors would match nicely, then you just get them made up at Home Depot!

Love the new room...and the Banjo.

Maia said...

Oh yeah that looks like fun. I could get behind a sledgehammer right about now. Lucky your dudes.