No More Clowns!

Yesterday, a major milestone happened at our house: all traces of clowns were removed. No, we don't have a clown-phobia, but we were tired of the cute clown border that's been up in our office (apparently the prior homeowners used that room as a nursery). We stripped the wallpaper border (which actually came off easily - a rarity in this house). Today, we've put up the first coat of "chocolate coco" (dark brown) paint. We'll put on a second coat after church. Gotta love the 12:30pm service on days like this!

Eventually, the office will have brown walls with white wainscot on the lower 1/3 of the walls and white trim. But, the wainscoting project will have to wait for another weekend - so we'll be living with a half-done room for a while longer.

Matt's been taking pictures as we work -- once we get the computers uncovered and the office is functional again, we'll upload them.

One other positive side-effect of painting the office - I had to clean it. Now if I can just keep it clean...