If you follow me on any kind of social media you’ve likely seen the bane of my existence since October: green paint.

The previous owners of my place used it on both the walls and the ceiling of the kitchen, and thankfully just the walls in the master bedroom:

Now, that’s all gone, replaced by a nice grey color.  Other improvements to the bedroom include a double layer of blackout curtains covering the window for my daytime sleeping needs, a refinished TV stand and two accompanying speaker stands I built:

Nearby in the master bathroom, not much has changed.  Though I have no idea how they were functioning with a shower head that barely squeaked out any water.  It took all of three minutes to swap that out.  I also added a much-needed medicine cabinet:

That bathroom will soon be blue (“Moroccan Blue” to be exact).  Over in my second bedroom/office, there’s an awesomely huge closet that came equipped with a wire shelf system.  When I moved in, most of the shelves only had two supports, so I massively upgraded to having supports throughout:

Note the many pictures on the floor there waiting to be hung.  That’s been a slow process.  But in addition to a new coat of paint, that room does have a couple of things on the wall:

Down the hallway toward the living room I added a coat of paint on the walls, plus a little bonus for the carpet as well:

The hallway bathroom got its own coat of paint.  I’m also quite pleased with this picture that’s hanging up in there:

Oh and I put in a new shower curtain rod:

My very first project was tackling the coat closet.  The shelf on top is quite deep, and when I moved in the front half was made up of these three pieces of plywood stacked on top of one another:

I purchased a better piece of wood, cut it, slapped it in there and did a coat of paint.  Much better!

Not much has happened in the dining room.  I know this will be a great shock, but I don’t do much dining there.  Instead it’s been kind of a catch-all place, especially for all the materials for these projects.  Though I did solve a need for more storage in there by building this box:

In the kitchen, by far the biggest development has been getting rid of this situation:

On Friday morning I made the ceiling white again, and yesterday I painted the walls grey:

There are no words for how much better this looks.  I actually want to spend time in there now.

Moving on to the living room, there are only tiny projects in there.  The first was making a pair of white stands to elevate the back row of my signed baseballs:

Then I made a felt-wrapped stand for my Hillary Werth bat, which is far from my best work, but gets the job done:

And of course there’s the Simpsons yard I covered in another post:

This room is the only one that’s really complete, with plenty of artwork on the walls too:

Next on the list: addressing the outdated/unnecessary GIANT telephone panel in the kitchen.

My plan is to get a big piece of sheet metal, screw it into the panel’s holes and have a nice magnetic bulletin board.  The panel on the left is the fuse box, so there’s not much I can do there, but it does look immeasurably better in grey than it did in green.