For nearly 3 years now,

I have jokingly been calling the paint style

in the Living Room “Ancient Chateau”

because we never quite had time to wash all

of the old paste off the walls

after we soaked

the 1960’s wallpaper off.

Fast forward to this weekend.

We shut everything down, put our phones on voicemail, and PAINTED.

We ate, drank, slept, and breathed Painting.  All of us!

And it paid off.

We finished it.

I couldn’t be more overjoyed.

This was the room I most wanted completed,

because it is the MOST PUBLIC Room.

Everyone enters the Cottage through this room.

To This…