Today I went to the hardware store to get a couple of things: coat racks, which we’re going to mount on the wall of the bedroom to hang jackets and hats and things, and some small sample pots of paint to test different paint colours on the walls.
Because we’ve planning this repainting of the whole place, we’re also taking the chance to look at other ways of refreshing and reorganising things to improve the living space. We’ve been hanging jackets over the dining chairs, which is a bit annoying when either you want to sit or when guests come over. And we have a few random hat hooks in places, but we realised we can install a rack of hooks in a space in the bedroom and move all of that stuff into one location to make things neater.
When I got home, I cleaned a section of wall to prepare it for painting, and when it was dry I applied coats of two different colours. We’re going for a warm white shade, lighter than what we have on the walls at the moment, which are quite creamy. I also have different lighter shades for the skirting boards, which I’ll add tomorrow to see the full effect. I painted wall patches about a metre high from the floor and 40 centimetres wide, so we can see it over a significant area of the wall. It’ll all get covered up by the full repaint when that gets done in October. So until then we’ll live with odd patches of different colours.
I also worked on Darths & Droids a lot today. There’s forward planning to be done for the next bit, so I wanted to get ahead on it.
On TV I’ve been watching Archive 81 on Netflix, an 8-part series which is described as horror, but it’s really more of a mystery thriller with some vague supernatural elements. I’m six episodes in and it’s been really good.