Reason to Celebrate

I had an assignment at the Grand Canyon, and Gerald decided to head to the land while I was there to see what he could get done.

On that trip, he finished out the doorways, cut the last pieces of wall molding, spackled and gave them a first coat of paint.

A couple of weeks later, he brought up the final, semi-gloss coat. I painted the final coat, and then Gerald installed the fixtures.

That marked the completion of our first room.

Here's how it looked when it was done.

Here's the view from the other direction.

We had also been trying to figure out how to light the stairway. Gerald got the idea of using a rope light.

The idea was to hide it underneath a piece of top molding to just create a warm glow.

Here it is before the top molding was installed.

We tried it that night, and it worked perfectly.