{"id":10913,"date":"2007-11-28T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/28\/painting\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:43:51","slug":"painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/28\/painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At long last&#8211;no sooner could this day come&#8211;Project Bury Navajo white is almost complete. I say almost with great hesitation. There&#8217;s some touch up work in my office still, a few corners and the outlet plates. Plus the matter of the kitchen. But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a quick pictorial:<\/p>\n<p>Before painting, it&#8217;s important to prep. Oedipus likes to start with a DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/prepwork.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two coats of Coffee Au Lait later, the same bedroom says, &#8220;Enter and relax.&#8221; Note the Navajo white trim at the baseboards. Also Electra now rules the bed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/bedroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Navajo white hallway. Yes floor to ceiling, it&#8217;s really better than a color. Glowing eyeballs on the left side are courtesy Oedipus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/hallway.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick pit stop in the bathroom. Brandie new, with matching towels and mats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/bathroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t look too closely at the kitchen walls. Krusty the Clown secretly replaced the nice yellow I imagined in the paint store with a shade right from Homer Simpson&#8217;s makeup kit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a good meal of Doh-nuts, enjoy a bottle of vino and kick back in the reading alcove. Considering doing this area in a light gray. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/readingcubby.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The office needs a bit of work still, but the Ashley Beige fits well here. Believe it or not the CRT monitor is 7 years old, and the ghetto tower box even older. Next year I upgrade to a less decrepit system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/office.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And last, the most impressive color in the palette. Living room by Norwood Spruce. And yes, the space does need furniture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/paint\/livingroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last&#8211;no sooner could this day come&#8211;Project Bury Navajo white is almost complete. I say almost with great hesitation. There&#8217;s some touch up work in my office still, a few corners and the outlet plates. Plus the matter of the kitchen. But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself&#8230; Here&#8217;s a quick pictorial: Before painting, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11726,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}