shadow forest spirits

Sunflowers Dec 27


Connecticut fog, my back yard
becomes a deep, surreal landscape
yet playful

ethereal sunset

soundless

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inside...

the Living room floor is still a mess but the walls are grand

Above the door to kitchen, I installed a mantelpiece-style molding, with crown molding flaring outward.

before molding (door to kitch on left), I took this photo of paint swatches & loose wiring. You can see that the door to kitchen originally had no molding

crown & door moldings, final!

cutting chair rail using compound-miter saw.

Cutaway of new door molding was needed for light switch. It works for me, I think it somehow makes the house look older.

switch plate installed. You can see how I cut the right side to blend into door molding.

light switches & wall repair. The wall repair was because there was only one switch before, & I had to widen hole.

drywall cutout in shape of hole around switch box, for reparing wall cut

cutting door side molding, to fit light switch

wall repair at a location where I split wiring to go to various rows of

recessed lights

angle view showing flared-out crown molding around door to kitchen, a 3-weekend project:

front door, closet, glimpse of chair rail up stairs

Rosette over front door corner. Georgian molding on left side of front door. Crown-molding corner half-finished.

Crown molding piece installed:

Brittania Blue, runner-up color. It is the warmest blue I could come up with but still not warm nuff.

before trying blue, experimenting with earth tones. Around October.

original room with front-door trim pulled off

happy pretty snow

looks like we're getting an inch

wilted sunflowers

unreachable apples remain on the tree

sneak preview of living room, showing hepplewhite ivory against white trim. actually the white is peach tinted. still a couple weeks from finished.