Get Well Carolyn!

Carolyn received her chair a couple of days ago. Poor baby. She has a terrible cold and can't work on anything. She did take a couple of photos of the anniversary chair after it arrived. She promises to send more after she does the scene around it. Here's the picture that I forgot to take before sending it to her. Don't you love the scenic wallpaper behind the chair? Carolyn, where did you find that?

In other news, I got all the way around the fireplace surround last night. I still need to do some fine tuning, but it is basically done. I am still on the fence about whether to stain or faux finish it. I suppose I can stain it to see how I like it and if I don't I can go to the paint pots. I think that I am leaning towards the stain at the moment. I want the room to be a bit on the dark side. Looking at my paints, I am thinking maybe Ceramcoat Midnight blue. That would be nice and restful for a bedroom. I think that I am at least going to close in the "wood bin" to the left of the fireplace. I don't like the shape of it at all.

I may even close in the hole on the front side of the stairs that serves no purpose that I can see at all. If it is closed, there will be more room for furniture in the bedroom.

Now that I am looking at it in the photo, I don't like any of the openings but the fireplace. I think that the staircase opening would look more in keeping with the house if it were much smaller too. Maybe It should be the shape of the other doors in the house. That's more busy work before I start the serious stuff that has to be done. Here we go again.

I just now thought that maybe the fireplace would look better if it were a little larger.......Nope. The carving is almost finished. I am not going to waste that!

I had better go back to work now. Sitting here looking at the photo has gotten me in enough trouble already. Why do I knock out holes in the walls and then decide to fill them back in? Round and round I go......

See you tomorrow.