Redecorating therapy!!

[1jt@atime]

Yes, like Jenn said, I had a therapist come in 3x a week and a nurse 2x a week for the first two weeks. After that, I went out to therapy. I would do some exercising each time I got up, about once an hour or so. I would stop at the stairs and stretch my legs, I would stop at the sink and do some leg lifts, I had a bike pedaler that I would stop and use for about 5 minutes at a time. So, if I was getting up I was also exercising. I also did exercises in my recliner chair. It was just a constant thing. You have to make yourself do it.

Hess, do you have the nesting instinct going on? I'm trying to get about 2 months of activities packed into the next two weeks. I'm trying to get all those little errands done that I can't put off for two months, doing some last minute shopping of things I know I'm going to need around the house and I even painted over the weekend.

Two of my daughters and I painted the living room to include the ceiling and all the trim and I thought I was going to DIE! It was just toooooo much to do with all my bad joints and one new one that is just not ready for this level of activity. I was a hurting puppy today and got little sleep last night, I ached so bad. I will definitely hire someone to do the rest of the painting that I have planned. The livingroom does look good. I need to put some finishing touches on it but that will have to wait until the weekend when I will hopefully feel better. For now, we are sitting in the middle of the room with tarp on the floor and no blinds on the windows.

I am having new livingroom furniture delivered while I am on medical leave and I wanted the walls painted before it arrived. The new furniture wouldn't match the old walls and the new walls don't match the old blinds and curtains so NOW I have to buy blinds and curtains. Oh, and my dining room now clashes with the living room so I have to change that color......and it goes on and on. Am I the only one that falls in this trap all because I got a new couch??????

[Jamie]

Nope.....I'm right in your corner. I'm redecorating an entire guest bedroom around two $1 super sale lampshades that were a neat shape and red and tan checkered pattern. Duhhhhh....It certainly does make you feel better to redecorate, though! We are actually working on several rooms at once. I'm moving from a more traditional look to contemporary.

[1jt@atime]

Same here! Traditional is out and contemporary is in. My furniture is all so old and I'm replacing it one room a year. Last year it was the master bedroom and this year it's the livingroom to include a big new TV. The TV we have now cuts off everyone's heads! The top third of the screen is useless. Yep, it's definitely time for a new one! The sectional couch is the first purchase for the livingroom. I will have to repaint at least the diningroom this summer as beige does not go with yellow.

[Jamie]

Is yellow the old color or the new one?

[hess]

Yes, like Jenn said, I had a therapist come in 3x a week and a nurse 2x a week for the first two weeks. After that, I went out to therapy. I would do some exercising each time I got up, about once an hour or so. I would stop at the stairs and stretch my legs, I would stop at the sink and do some leg lifts, I had a bike pedaler that I would stop and use for about 5 minutes at a time. So, if I was getting up I was also exercising. I also did exercises in my recliner chair. It was just a constant thing. You have to make yourself do it.

Hess, do you have the nesting instinct going on? I'm trying to get about 2 months of activities packed into the next two weeks. I'm trying to get all those little errands done that I can't put off for two months, doing some last minute shopping of things I know I'm going to need around the house and I even painted over the weekend.

Two of my daughters and I painted the living room to include the ceiling and all the trim and I thought I was going to DIE! It was just toooooo much to do with all my bad joints and one new one that is just not ready for this level of activity. I was a hurting puppy today and got little sleep last night, I ached so bad. I will definitely hire someone to do the rest of the painting that I have planned. The livingroom does look good. I need to put some finishing touches on it but that will have to wait until the weekend when I will hopefully feel better. For now, we are sitting in the middle of the room with tarp on the floor and no blinds on the windows.

I am having new livingroom furniture delivered while I am on medical leave and I wanted the walls painted before it arrived. The new furniture wouldn't match the old walls and the new walls don't match the old blinds and curtains so NOW I have to buy blinds and curtains. Oh, and my dining room now clashes with the living room so I have to change that color......and it goes on and on. Am I the only one that falls in this trap all because I got a new couch??????

I AM nesting right now!! It's almost like I know I am having another kid!(I'm thinking this will be easier in the long run)

I know I'm supposed to be starting my iron pills, and my vitamin C, but I'm not sure when. Does 2 weeks out sound right to you?

Thanks,
Hess

[1jt@atime]

The new color is a fairly deep yellow and the new couch is green. The room used to be blue. I hate white rooms. Too many years of living in military housing.

I don't have to take iron or Vit C. I have to go off everything except tylenol and my asthma meds one week before surgery. Easier then the kid? Yea, the knee will definitely be easier in the long run! I can agree with that!

[Jamie]

Your new colors sound great! We both like a lot of color too (I agree, probably that military thing). Our living room has new wood floors and a really contemporary rug with red, orange, wine and tan. It's pretty wild, but we LOVE it. The rug set the whole tone for the room and we got a a white microsuede (the most FANTASTIC fabric every invented for staying clean) couch and 2 burgundy leather chairs....recliners....my hubbie insisted he had to have a recliner. I thought the colors were exciting and I could easily change the whole look of the room just by putting down a new rug in different colors. We're still working on that room. We had the carpeted stairs replaced with oak ones and we are making a custom iron railing for the stairs that is going to be more like artwork than a railing. We're also doing some indirect lighting along the top of the walls....still designing that part.

[1jt@atime]

Jamie, your livingroom sounds great! It's fun to redo a room like that. We have three dogs and couldn't imagine anything white in the house. They are crazy. Before we could get the tarp off the floor after painting the other day, they started chasing each other around the circular pattern in the house and got yellow paint all over the wood floors. Of course we knew who got into the paint. Not much chance of hiding the evidence between the paws! It scraped off the floor just fine but that was all I needed!

Jenn, a neutral paint color is definitely better when you want to sell your house but take it easy if you are doing the painting. Going up and down that ladder was a lot more work then I had anticipated.

[JenniferG]

Wow Simon, you did all that with your knees!? It always amazes me how much we all do in such pain, despite it. What's the option I guess. Do nothing? But for me the point did come when after years of pain I could do nothing. Then it was time...
Log Cabin sounds nice. Cozy feeling. I have always liked those. When we find our new house we want to go up in size. So as I pack, sort and purge 'm thinking I'll run short on furniture in a bigger place. So I imagine I'll be shopping for some down the road.