It is fantastic to have this room completed! It has turned into the music room and the dining room and lots of fun has been happening in there. The colors are super bright and this yellow is terrific to watch change throughout the day. The vinyl floor turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself, and it certainly hides the dirt. I had to do two things over as I finished up this room. One was a tile on the floor which I had cut poorly and is now replaced with a better fit and the other was the seam in the new wall. Once that was painted yellow, it felt really obvious to me that I had stopped one layer of mud too soon so I sanded and mudded and sanded until I felt it was smooth. Now it is a really good looking wall. I have also painted two benches for this room. One is the piano bench in this picture which I sprayed with black laquer and the other is a chest I painted red. There are still the threshold and the window coverings to tend to, but we are already enjoying the heck out of this new room.
Here are a couple of the friends who came to play last week. They are both incredibly talented and versatile players. Ken baked a cherry pie and came for dinner and then he and Robin set to work on a few pieces for piano and cello, viola, and violin. Ken’s new cello sounds and looks amazing. It is so beautiful and shiny, I could not help but compare it to my boat. Chris came by later in the evening. He is amazing on the violin and I loved hearing him and Ken play together. They let me play all my silly, easy songs and they played around me. It was challenging for me not to wander all over the place listening to them.
Johan, another pianist, dropped in for a bit and he played some Scott Joplin and they guys wove in and around that, too. It was lively and I had fun dancing around the big open living room that remains a construction zone. It is good for me to watch and listen to these violinists. I also loved the practice and had lots of fun with it. The next day, my playing had improved! We’ll be doing this again soon and plan to have one more friend join in with his saxophone. The new room is being well used. We have had a game of Boggle with our word freak friends and we have shared many meals at the little table. I bought some orange lilies for the room and with the red tablecloth and green vase, I am composing paintings each time I enter or look into the room.
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