More house stuff

(FYI I post this stuff mostly for my mom who hounds me regularly about whether we finished our projects...)

So - Here is the new hole we put in the kitchen nook, not big enough to be a nook area

And it's predecessor, the door in the dining room, which made the dining room this weird little crevice that you couldn't really use:

So, no more dining room hole... this will be a cool dining room soon.  You know, when we finish painting and then I will need new furniture in there... ahhhhhhhh

And, Viola!  We have a closing door into the office from the kitchen.  This means we close off the clutter room and the noisy Macaw when we have company.  Hurray! 

Well, at least in theory. Most people that come over are nerds computer savvy and want to hang out with 7 or so computers in one room... sigh.

Here's what it looks like when the lights off.  The room glows.  Mike calls it the gamer cave, glowing green...

Here's why it glows green.  This is our fresh, new Grasshopper green wall.  This room has light issues, it always seems so dark and dreary, so it needed a bright color on the wall.  I still need to paint the door (ugh) and we need to put little recessed door pulls in both sides.  We went with the "barn door" mechanism - much easier to install than a pocket door.  Especially when this is technically an outside door into the old converted garage... too many studs (huhhuhuhuh) to move.

And last, here is the stripe that I am doing.  We definitely had no intention of going FULL GRASSHOPPER GREEN in the entire room.  But the stripe seemed cool (it follows the door to the circuit box thingy). 

I love the new layout of the room, it actually makes me want to use the room again.  Less clutter (what? you say... well, clutter free office with a computer builderdude, this is about as good as it gets).  I did the one stripe and am planning to continue it on, hence the blue tape.  Alison made me post these pictures before it was done... she's mean.   Oh and the carpet needs cleaning.  Sigh.

Still lots of painting to do.  Seriously, painting doors and trim sucks.  I don't mind walls and stripes in walls, but trim and the glossy paint that has to be perfect... ugh.  Next up, the dining room and finishing out the doors and baseboards.  Then we should be done for a while... I hope... 

Now you see why we stopped working on the house when we realized we needed new doors?  We knew it would trigger all the rest of the projects.  Good times!