Any Color You Like
I finally got around to painting the kitchen. When I put the new cabinets in, there were spots on the wall that were unpainted - from where the 0ld cabinets were. They provided a nice 1970's style yellow contrast to the "Antique White" that I had painted back in 2001.
I started off with a trip to Lowes, and picked up a quart of "Black Spruce" which was this pretty dark green. I painted about half of the kitchen (but thankfully not above the cabinets) before I realized, hey, this is really fucking dark green. It looked black. So, away with dark green.
I decided to repaint the kitchen the same color it was, since I wanted to get this done, and I loathe painting. Off I go into my laundry/tool room to grab the old paint. Grabbed it, started painting and... oh shit, this isn't tan, it's pink. It was the left over paint from Dana's room.
Went back into the laundry/tool/cat room and found the can of paint marked "TAN" and went to work. Got all of the pink and green covered up nicely. For those who care, the progression of colors in the kitchen of my house has been thus (since the house was built)
- Cyan or Teal
- Yellow
- Some off-white color
- Antique White
- Black Spruce
- Pink Rosewood
- Antique White
I also redid the trim around the door from the kitchen to the living room, and put new 1x4's in the door frame. I love my compound mitre saw.
I am absolutely dreading work this week, but I'm happy that most of my painting seems to be done. I'm going to make another post with my to-do list for the house.
Fair
Today Laura, Dana, and I went to the Ocean County Fair with Rob Rome, Brian, Rosalyn, and their kids Katelyn and Brandon.
Dana got her first ride on a merry-go-round:
In other news, I have been spending a lot of time listening to some new music. Found this great band, Boards of Canada, through MySpace. They're on the friends list of another band I really like, Beef Terminal. It's all ambient/electronic music, which as time goes on, I'm finding myself listening to more and more. You should watch the video for Dayvan Coyboy, which has now turned into one of my favorite songs.
Painting finished, trip to Tuckerton
Yesterday I finished up repainting my walls, the wainscoting, and trim. There are a few small areas here and there that need to be touched up, but for the most part it's all done. I also need to clean up and organize the house, it's not normally this messy. The dining room table, however, gets used as a catch all basin and not as a table all that often.
I ended up painting the walls a lighter grey, and painted the opposite walls which had been white before. I painted the walls in the hallway the same glossy white as the trim so that it makes the dining room stand by itself more. I also wanted to get rid of more of the white paint. I have gallons and gallons of paint left over - I may put an ad on Craigslist to get rid of it. I can't be bothered to take it to the recycling center.
I decided to take a ride down to the Tuckerton Seaport. I've never been there and was just looking for something to do. I drove there, and saw that it was pretty small and didn't look like anything was going on, so I elected to not pay the $8 that they want for admission. I figured I'd at least see a ship or two there. No dice. Instead I took a walk around the parking lot area, took some pics, and then headed down Radio Road nearby to take some more shots. The parkway was a mess coming back home, too.
^ My TL on Radio Road.
Sprawl
The NJ DEP has ratcheted up a few notches in my book. They have this mapping system - iMap NJ - which allows you to play with some GIS data. Whats so cool about it is that they have aerial and satellite photomosaics of the entire state, so you can go to a region, select a layer, and see what the area looks like (ala Google Earth, etc.) What's interesting about it is to see how much things have changed - at least in my area - over the year.
In 1930, the area that I live in - Mallard Point in Brick, NJ - was all forest. Old Hooper Ave - now not quite a main road anymore - was the main thoroughfare and was unpaved. The only road through the neighborhood I live in seems to be a path or wagon track down to Kettle Creek, just north of where the beach is here. There may have been a house or gun club of some sort near the clearing at the North East part of the peninsula. It's all modern houses now.
My house was built in about 1942. I think it, and most of the other houses on the street, were all built at about the same time by the same builder. In 1986 the Nizamofs, the previous owners, added a long addition which is now my living room, laundry room, and 1/2 bath. If I had more free time I'd pull the deed history for the house and see if I can find out some more information on the previous owners and the history of the place.
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