When you think about catchy titles for your blog you of course want to hook your readers in to grab their attention. With this blog post I could have had several, several tiles. Here are a few:
Could Have, Would Have, Should Have...
Never Again
The Many Layers of a Makeunder
Never say Never
I picked it's all about balance because there are so many ways we can think about balance. Balancing colors in a room, managing and prioritizing job responsibilities, and perhaps balancing emotional feelings based on a particular moment. I am going to talk about all three.
Managing and prioritizing job responsibilities and personal obligations. I set a goal for myself that this one room ( the office) needed to be completed by Christmas. No idea why I set this goal. I guess between ripping walls down and the dust, debris, and achy body parts, I needed a finished product in one room. This office area or quiet space is my favorite room in the house and I wanted to make it all happen before the holidays. Little did I know that a small room like this would be so difficult to tackle. I would get up in the morning, work out, go to work, run home and change, and then rush to the house and wait for 20 minutes for a steamer to heat up. I did manage to take down an entire wall in another room every time I had to refill this small water chamber in the piece of machinery. When I got home I quickly ate, hung out with the boys, and then slept. When the weekend came and an unexpected snow day, I thought I would be ahead of schedule. However, the grip the wallpaper had on those plaster walls was a fight. While I attempted to maintain a balance between it all, something had to give. Let's also not forget I had Christmas shopping to complete. People who know me know that when I set a goal, I don't give up. However, sometimes, my goals and my tenacity to complete them offset my emotional balance and state of mind.
Balancing emotions with this room. When I tell you it took a solid four days to get one wall of wallpaper removed and probably two hours tops to remove an entire wall of plaster and lath, I contemplated many times to just take a hammer to the plaster, remove everything, and just drywall the space. But I started the removal of wallpaper and I don't take on a challenge and give up. Not with anything. This is something I am working on because mentally that is not a way to live, nor do I want my boys thinking that's how you should operate. Balance should be about changing the narrative, go through aspects of productive struggles but if you find a better route, take advantage of it. Like I said, I'm still working on that. If a surgeon opens up a patient and sees a better way to heal a wound or fix a problem during the process, they themselves change their course. I did manage to rip all three layers of wallpaper off, washed, scrubbed and cleaned every wall, but I really could have and should have just taken down the walls. My Irish drive and strong will kept me in the game. I mean, you've seen the stone walls generations of families put up on that green island, this green wallpaper was no different.
Now for the good part, the balance of colors. Speaking of a green island. While I love the color green, there was just too much of it. I observed an Art teacher this year and during her pre-observation she showed me the color wheel and explained aspects of it that I really never knew too much about. It is all about a balance. One color works with another while others should not be paired up. I thought of that color wheel and wanted to do something different in the room, but the green haze I lived in and the anger I had towards these walls after steaming and cleaning made me go more basic. I started with what color I wanted to do around the window frames. I picked black. Again, I get a lot of inspiration from magazine pictures, or pinterest ideas, but in this case I picked a room I saw that had black metal trim on old windows. So, what color works with black on the color wheel? I have no idea!!! So, I picked a basic white. Here is the end result.
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