{"id":53636,"date":"2021-08-06T07:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53636"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T04:59:47","slug":"nearing-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nearing-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearing the End"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53638\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184611-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53638\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184611-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Showing the White\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184611-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184611-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184611-sm.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Showing the White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What this post should have been named is &#8220;Nearing the End of the Life Sucking Beige&#8221;, but that is too long and it makes for ugly URLs.<\/p>\n<p>The white is definitely dominating and only the baseboards need to be painted. The room really looks fresh. Today it was pretty foggy and the room didn&#8217;t look as depressing (which I try to ignore since it is my own space) as it has in the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53637\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184608-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53637\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184608-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carpeting gone\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184608-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184608-sm-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184608-sm.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpeting gone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DH also ripped up the carpeting, which I wanted. The floor is hardwood and in good shape except for one spot. I call that a win. The dirt we swept up from under the carpet was amazing. It looked like a sand drift. That blue is the old pad, which DH is using to keep the paint from hitting the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The house stinks and I have had a headache for two days from the paint fumes. We have the windows open as much as they will open and there isn&#8217;t much else that I can do except stay away.DH isn&#8217;t allowing me in the room anyway since I may hit some surface that is still wet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53639\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184620-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53639\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184620-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wall of design wall\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184620-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184620-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210724_184620-sm.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wall of design wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a picture of the wall where my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-design-wall-installation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new design wall<\/a> was hung. The door is the door of the fabric closet. The furniture lumps in the center of the room are my work desk and my sewing table. They are the only two things we couldn&#8217;t get out of the room. They are too heavy for the two of us to carry.<\/p>\n<p>I also bought new door handles. Ours were sort of functional, but I thought I would just go for broke and replace them with new fresh ones.<\/p>\n<p>Yay! It&#8217;s looking good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What this post should have been named is &#8220;Nearing the End of the Life Sucking Beige&#8221;, but that is too long and it makes for ugly URLs. The white is definitely dominating and only the baseboards need to be painted. The room really looks fresh. Today it was pretty foggy and the room didn&#8217;t look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nearing-the-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nearing the End&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[409,363],"class_list":["post-53636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-home-decor","tag-workroom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53642,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53636\/revisions\/53642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}