Work continues...

Today the sitting room to the left side of the foyer got stain and one coat of polyurethane, and already looks so good.  Look what a difference stain makes. 

 

You can't really tell a difference after only one coat of polyurethane, but after two more you'll really see the difference.

Not much else accomplished today....except I painted one heat radiator....one of many!  I hate painting those things.  There's no way that I know of to paint the middle. On the only other one I've painted (the one in the kitchen) I tried spray painting it, using a foam brush, paint on my finger, and a bristle brush, but you can still see missed places.  When painting the one in the foyer today I used a small paint roller, a foam brush, and a small long handled artist brush.....it still looks bad.  I guess you do the best you can and hope no one looks directly at it!!

A picture of that badly painted radiator is in the left lower corner of the picture to the left.

Now, here's another issue I'm wondering about....


This is the left and right side of the sitting room that Jim stained today.  That's the same window in both pictures (double window)....just so you'll have some idea of how the room is laid out, and the size is 15' x 15'....approximately.  If you look at the left picture you're barely able to see another white radiator in that room.  It's under a huge window.  My issue is how to fit my matching couch and loveseat in that room!  I can't put either one on that wall because of the radiator, and only either the couch or the loveseat will fit under the window wall that you can see, not both.  There's a fireplace on another wall and the entrance from the foyer isn't a wall at all.  I could arrange one of the furniture pieces in the middle of the floor facing the fireplace, but it still leaves me with the same issue....only room for one or the other.  I know it's not an earth shaking issue......I'm just sayin'.

Here's the couch and loveseat in question....when in our previous house.  Oh, how I miss the clean of that house.

I wonder if I could place the loveseat in front of the radiator? Hmmm.....wonder how close to a radiator you could actually place furniture....and if it would block heat from the rest of the room? Probably....and fall is in the air.