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   kostello | Mar 01, 2004 10:55am | #1

   very nice too!!!!

   have you had the inaugural banquet yet???

   I'm free most nightsLOL

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   Piffin | Mar 02, 2004 05:39am | #2

   OK, Do I make like Kung Fu Master and say, "Well done, Grasshopper"

   or drawl it out slowly like John Wayne, "Well shucks Ma'am. 'Twernt nuthin'"

   or like the baseball great, "It's sure good to see the chickens boils their own eggs"

   or I can pretend to be myself and just say, "hey, we did allright on this one, didn't we?"

   now about the girlfriend, You say she was happy with it?

   I think it came out downright good for the asymetrical shape of the room! Enjoy it with pride. You deserve it.

    

    

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   CAGIV | Mar 02, 2004 06:00am | #3

   spectacular work, I love the ceiling detail and paint.

   

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   hubcap | Mar 02, 2004 06:10am | #4

   nicely done.

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   Piffin | Mar 02, 2004 06:26am | #6

   I was just admiring that cieling and wondering whether Len contributed to the thread on red paint and how many coats it can take. 

    

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   CAGIV | Mar 02, 2004 06:33am | #7

   red paint.... I'm not a fan!

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   Len | Mar 02, 2004 08:20am | #9

   piffin,

   The paint is a long story. It was a compromise. My girlfriend was a little frustrated with the progress. Not just me but with all the years events. She wanted to paint. We went to Lowes and looked through the faux paints and she picked a out what she wanted.

   She was nervous that it wouldn't turn out well. So we decided to go ahead and paint the room before I was finished.

   Yes, I explained to her that there would be damage to the paint and some nicks in the wall. For me it was important to make her happy. I also figured it was easier to repaint if there was damage.

   Ok. Enough of the back story.

   The ceiling she hasn't finished. She still has to put a glaze over it. So the red stripe your seeing is the finished coat. The recess has just the base coat. Eventually it will be all painted the same. I wanted to paint the recess darker but she isn't convinced of that.

   One thing we didn't consider is it's going to be very hard to touch up. The base coat is put on and then two different color glazes were brushed and cheesclothed on. The base color is a dusty rose, almost pink. Once the glazes were put on it darkened it to the red you see. It was one coat of primer, one coat of base color, two different colors of glaze, brushed on, blotted off with cheesecloth, and that's it.

   She did a great job and she's still happy with me.

   Enjoy,

   Len

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   Piffin | Mar 03, 2004 12:50am | #11

   So, she was impatient that you were not fast enough coming to completion.

   How is it that women want a man who is slow in bed and fast getting the other things done?

   I'll have to add that to the list of eternally unanswered questions...

   ;-)

    

    

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   Len | Mar 03, 2004 02:46am | #12

   The faster you are at other things the sooner you can get back in bed.

   Oh cr**.... Hi honey. I was just... Bye gotta go...

   Len

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   Piffin | Mar 03, 2004 04:04am | #13

   80) 

    

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   StanFoster | Mar 02, 2004 06:10am | #5

   Len:  That really looks nice...I love the proportion...colors and all

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   PaulParadis | Mar 02, 2004 06:43am | #8

   Nice job.  My eye caught what I thought were hinges on the side lites.  Am I right?  Do you use them?  What is the benefit?

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   Len | Mar 02, 2004 08:26am | #10

   Yes, those are hinges. The side lights open. We do use them. We wanted the room to be more formal and didn't think a slider would have looked as nice. That end of the house could have been a dead end. We wanted to be able to get air to flow through.

   Enjoy,

   Len

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   JDRHI | Mar 03, 2004 07:26am | #14

   Len, looks great very nicely done!

   J. D. Reynolds

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   "DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"