Teal!
Actually it's coincidence that teal won the poll. It was my favorite choice anyway, and might have been what I picked regardless of results. This particular color is Sherwin William's Grand Canal. It's a little too bright for my liking--in the end we decided that we may like bold but it has to have some muted grays in it. However, we discovered our lack of love for Grand Canal after we had put down one coat, so it is destined to stay. Especially since we already switched colors once:
I'm happy to report that we were able to change the bathroom light fixture from a really old and dusty model to something a little more modern. Unlike the dining room, the fixture fit into the electrical box. I also put up some shelves and hooks, so the bathroom is looking mighty nice. Now if we could only use it (we were advised by the paint store to wait a week before showering).
More results: the HVAC guy came today and fixed our problems. To solve the problems with the upstairs, he bled the system and got rid of some air bubbles, even letting us keep the pipe he used to route the water out the window. As for the thermostat issue, apparently our zone valves (something I didn't even know existed until today) were set to manual, meaning that the pipes from the boiler to the baseboards were open and allowing water to run regardless of what the thermostat said. He switched them to automatic and we are good to go. The best news: he didn't charge us for any of it!
And after a month of trying at Home Depot, Lowes, and a local hardware store, we finally got spare keys made. It took a trip to a locksmith (not the people who rekeyed our doors) during business hours, but now we should be set, with 10 keys. The locksmith said that our locks are totally normal and blamed the stores' poor maintenance of their cutting equipment as the reason it took so many tries to get working keys.
And finally, so I can at least have a picture if the whole thing comes crashing down:
It's not done yet (the light edges of the cabinets will be covered and we still have to put door pulls on) but it's pretty darn close. I love it. Now I just hope it doesn't fall down...
3 comments:
That is a really nice teal; it looks great with the black and white tiles. Glad the heating issues were fixable and free - but you're not needing heat yet are you? (It was 26 here this morning - I lit a fire first thing.) The shelves look great - did they say anything about how much weight they'd hold?
Supposedly it can take about half a ton: http://www.wardrobeman.com.au/FAQ/LoadsWeights.pdf. It depends on what we anchored it to and since we have knotty pine behind our drywall, it was hard to tell when we hit a stud and when we were just in the pine. In either case, we had to use wood screws. Our books, based on that source, are about 300 lbs, so we should be safe. Still, when does anything work the way it should?
At least in that picture I kinda like the teal. I'm sure bold will grow on you..perhaps it has already!
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