The color of my living room

This is what I worked on yesterday. I find that the colors never show as they should be with this camera, but I have also taken some pictures with film, and if they turn out better I will post them another day. The green is actually much more green that it shows up in the photo. There are hooks at either side of the top of the green inset, and a wire hanger across the back of the needlepoint, and I think I will buy small gold chain links and hang the picture from both those hooks. I'm not sure how to do it but have it in my mind, so I hope it works. Right now the picture sits on the bottom ledge, but it will eventually be centered.

The couch will also be centered on that wall and under the picture and I think it will look better once I get the rest of the furniture back into the room. Everything I do is predicated on something else happening, so it seems to me that I'm just moving things around haphazardly, but I'm really not.

The second photo is for comparison. The coffee table is on the other side of the room temporarily, still being used as a catch-all. It will take me a day to clear it off and put everything away!





Now I'm washing the walls and ceiling in the hallway, which is dark and narrow, and which I think will look much better when I get a couple coats of yellow paint on it! That will leave the larger half of the living room and the kitchen. I can probably accomplish one or the other by Christmas but I dread tackling the kitchen.

The electric range will be delivered next week. I need to find out if they will haul the old one away and then find someone to disconnect the old one. I know they haul away old dishwashers but nothing in the advertising on the website mentions removal of ranges. I will bake salmon in the old oven this evening and then that's it. I hope I never have to use that yukky appliance again.

I think you guys who are wintering in Arizona are having much more fun than I am at the moment.