An Addition to My Icon Corner

I wanted to share my latest "creation".  This corner shelf was found by the side of the road by my dh when he was a teenager and used in his childhood home for years.  Our ds used it after that and now I've finally been able to use it to hold my bibles and prayer books in my icon corner.

I painted it burgundy with gold highlighting to match my icons and it adds a nice touch to my prayer corner.

Our House

I am blessed to be married to a dh whose idea of a vacation is to paint the house! Our house has virtually no architectural details to recommend it, so we have to go with paint colors to "cuten" it up. Here is the result.

Redecorating II

Ok. I'm finished my sunroom (for now).

This is the before picture. Icky green with two big unpainted areas.



This is the after picture. "Nifty Turquoise" base with stenciled stones on top. The "stones" go across the room from one door to the other.

Redecorating

Just an update re: my current house doings for those who care.

I am in the process of painting the cement floor of my sun room a beautiful bright dark turquoise. After it dries, I will sponge on some fake stepping stones connecting the two side doors using some stencils that I bought. I may paint the doors a light pinkish coral.

The original floor was an icky olive green around the perimeter, with no paint in the middle. (I think the previous owner ran out!) I am picky about my greens and this one wasn't cutting it!

Anyway, the turquoise is intense and makes the whole room glow, like you are under water. Once the rocks are in, I figure you can use your imagination and make the turquoise be either water, or plant material, peppered by a walkway of stones.

We are also debating on what to do with the TV that was in there. As our antennae fell over, we get no TV reception at the moment. We may use it to replace this dinosaur monitor in here. The poor cat will have to find somewhere else to lay!

Important New Information!

Thanks to Darrell over at Southern Conservative, I have learned an exciting and valuable piece of new information today. For those of you who are as out of the loop as I am, Hugh Laurie (House) is BRITISH!!! I honestly didn't know that! In spite of my sometimes posing as a "TV hating elistist" to quote Darrell, I am a fan of House. I'm still flipping out from watching the clip below of his wonderfully accented acceptance speech. Wow!