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We’re finally done painting in the office/craft room/guest room!  Here are a couple photos for you:

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It’s so light and bright and shiny in here now, I just love it.  And I get to stare at that beautiful red maple even as I’m typing this post. 

The only downside is that the bright, fresh walls and ceiling now make the floor look even more dingy.  I was hoping to paint those now, but we just couldn’t work it out since we have no other room to put all this furniture in.  So, I need a rug to distract from them as soon as possible. 

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I’ll show you the other side of the room in the future, right now it’s just full of books and things and not very pretty.  We picked out our sofa and will be buying it soon (I’ll post about how we picked it out later this week).  It’s coming together!

I’m also trying to think of a way to make the window air conditioner unit less ugly without interfering with the functionality.  Anyone have any ideas?

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  1. Kaytie

    June 19, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Wow! What a difference paint makes – I went back and looked at your before pictures, the new paint makes the entire room so fresh and airy. I can tell you’re going to love working in this space. 🙂

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    • Christina

      June 19, 2012 at 6:40 pm

      Oh! I didn’t even think to put a before pic in this time. Sorry you had to go looking for it. 🙂

  2. Cher

    June 19, 2012 at 4:20 pm

    Yes, I have an idea for the air conditioner. Why don’t you faux finish it to look like a window. 🙂 It might work.

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    • Christina

      June 19, 2012 at 6:48 pm

      Ha! I could paint the view of the back yard on it.

  3. onshore

    June 19, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    Yay!! looking good!
    Could you cover the airconditioner similarly as a radiator. Like this: http://chezlarsson.com/myblog/2011/12/the-radiator-cover-part-ii.html

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    • Christina

      June 19, 2012 at 6:51 pm

      That’s a great idea! Thanks for the link, I will have to look into that that would take this week.

  4. Mini Dork

    June 19, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    Love the blue! Are you doing curtains? If you want to keep the light you could sew curtains with sheers on the top 2/3s covering the window and then an opaque solid or print horizontal stripe over the AC unti. When not in use you’d still get the light, when in use you could add buttons/snaps on the inside of the sheers and fold the horizontal strip under so it doesn’t cover the AC unit.

    Something like this: sheers with pink horizontal stripe 2/3s way down the page:
    http://www.design-decor-staging.com/blog/charming-ideas-spring-decorating-light-window-curtains/36453

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    • Christina

      June 19, 2012 at 6:54 pm

      Another great idea! I hadn’t decided on curtains yet, but I really like that idea, thank you!

  5. [email protected]

    June 22, 2012 at 4:58 am

    I love the blue. Evreything looks bright and airy.

    About the window unit…i have one too. Ugly. While watching ‘Selling New York’ I noticed that a multi-million dollar loft had a window unit. The potential buyers didn’t even say anything in regards to it. To put central ac in the space would have ruined the original tin ceiling which was beautiful.

    So the moral of the story is, sometimes function trumps aesthetics. No one even notices it. or at least that is what I am telling myself 🙂

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  6. peachbutterart

    September 5, 2012 at 2:00 am

    It’s beautiful! If you really want to paint the floors you could move all the furniture to one side, paint half the floor….rinse and repeat. I had to do that once. 🙂 I am seriously jealous of your tree!

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Ugly photo time! We're doing the $100 Room Challen Ugly photo time! We're doing the $100 Room Challenge on our dining room (that you guys haven't even seen the "before" of yet). It's a super fun challenge to stay within $100 and makeover a room in a month. We're behind schedule, but there has actually been progress. I'll try to remember to share here, but there's more on the blog! LittleVictorian.com
#100roomchallenge
Update: the MCM is officially sold! We did eventua Update: the MCM is officially sold! We did eventually finish most of our restoration/renovation projects. I'll share the updates in the coming months as we get settled in to our new place. 😁
House update! The realtor is still confused about House update! The realtor is still confused about why "it's such a popular house." When she arrived yesterday for a showing, there were 8 cars in the driveway. 😃

We had three offers the first day, one of whom hadn't even seen the house in person yet.
Surprise! The house is going on the market today. Surprise! The house is going on the market today. (Long story that I'll fill you in on when I have more than 2 seconds.)
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But we're once again with a realtor that calls our house "unique" instead of calling it a Mid Century Modern. 🤦‍♀️
.
We can't count how many locals came into this house and mentioned that those windows should be removed and walled up and the beams cut off. And then it would be a "normal" house. 🤯
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Still can't really identify with people in this area. 🤷‍♀️ SO happy to be going back home to the East coast TOMORROW!
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