Who thought that installing panelling was a good idea? I want to know who!  Any that I have ever seen it’s ugly and looks cheap.  The guy who owned our house prior must have thought panelling was the best thing since sliced bread cause my house is full of it.  My living room, dining room, laundry room, one wall in computer room, and hallway off computer room.  And it’s not just that he put panelling on the walls, that would be too simple.  He installed customized cupboards with panelling and bi-fold doors that any hoarder would love.  It sure made my hoarding worse I had places to hide things!

-

So here we are keeping the lovely wall of shelves.  I kept way too much on them before and did weed out alot of what was there.  The shelves you see here are freshly painted in Plateau color.  It’s a light creamy tan-ish color.  The shelves were the dark brown you see in the shelves at the bottom.  Those shelves are either going to be drywalled over or turned into cupboards.  We haven’t decided yet.

-

So the other side of the room we tore the panelling off.  The left side shelving is being torn out and will be closed off and used to re-route heating ducts.  The right side shelving is being torn out and made into a closet.  With a real door and door knob LOL

The bad news is behind that glass area is a fireplace.  The carpet in front of it when pulled back revealed concrete.  The means no hard wood floor for me.  We just don’t have the time to break the concrete up to make it level first so the room will be carpeted later.

-

My dog apparently does not like the drill.  She would not stop barking at it.  She kept getting closer and closer to his hands.  Major distraction!  She needs to be kept out of the room when we are working.

-

My dining room looks like an episode of hoarders with the stuff that belongs in the dining room on top of most of what was in the living room and the paint and drywall material.  It’s a good thing we aren’t having thanksgiving dinner at my house this year!