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When I bought my house I knew I was going to make it into a giant art project. I don't know where the concept came from, but I got this idea to theme each room in my house. I suppose it's an extension of my haunted house activities - every room in a good haunted house has a theme or idea around which it is built. That's my theory, anyhow. So I decided to do the same with this house. I used to own another house. I had toyed with the idea of theming some of the rooms there, but my wife at the time and I could never see eye-to-eye on the themes. So we had a little closet we called "The Pirate Den" and left the rest alone. |
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When I bought this house, I decided that I was going to theme it. The
outside is pretty standard, really. It's a nice brick two story. (That's
not my car at right - it's in the neighbors driveway. Oddly enough, it's not
the neighbor's car, either. But that's a story for another time.) It originally had a black roof with white trim. I found this dull, so I painted the porch and columns puke green and baby barf yellow. At least that's what someone else informed me the colors I had chosen looked like. In fact, nearly everyone who saw it (and was willing to tell me so) noted that it was ugly, so I repainted it in blue and bluish grey. (Note: This has nothing whatsoever to do with union/confederacy colors.) I liked the colors, so I got the roof done in blue and when I had new windows installed, I had them use a grey-blue flashing. You can also see (above) that the garage was painted grey-blue with blue trim. What can I say? It worked for me. |
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This is my guardian housecat.
This picture also allows you to see bits of the old decorating. The previous owner had a great affinity for that moss green carpeting, so she did the whole downstairs (except the kitchen), the stairway and the hall in that color. I am working industriously to remove all traces of it. The shag green and blue...well, I kinda' liked it. So, of the three bedrooms, one (which became the office) was left carpeted that way. The other two were brought down to the yellow pine floors and re-stained. (It turns out that yellow pine is a hardwood.) The beautiful yellow pine moldings were mostly intact in the upstairs, so I left them as is, fixing scratches and stuff here and there. This house has truly gorgeous moldings and they really appealed to me, so I intend to |
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hand it to the next owner with the
moldings as they have probably been since the house was built in the
1910s. Below is the basic layout of my house. Each room is themed based on something that was important to me in my past. You can select a page showing nauseating amounts of detail on each room (well, each room that is finished enough for me to photograph and show to the world) by clicking on that room. |
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| Room Pages: Entry Room Living Room Dining Room Kitchen Master Bedroom Spare Bedroom Office Bathroom Hallway Florida Room |
