{"id":30556,"date":"2016-03-14T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=30556"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:48:08","slug":"fresh-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=30556","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>After we discovered the damage our ventless gas logs had done to our walls, ceilings, and woodwork, we called in the pros to repaint the great room.\u00a0 It was such a treat for me to have someone else on a ladder painting that ceiling and the walls that are 10 feet tall.\u00a0 I have never painted a ceiling, and I don&#8217;t plan to start now.\u00a0 And by the way, if you haven&#8217;t read our recent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2016\/02\/28\/maintenance-for-ventless-gas-fireplace-logs\/\">fireplace logs maintenance<\/a>, do yourselves a favor and read it today &#8211; that is if you have ventfree or ventless gas logs.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30600\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4211-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4211\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4211-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4211-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4211-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>The color that was in the great room was stucco by Sherwin Williams.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30602\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4215-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4215\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4215-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4215-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4215-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>I love the color but wanted it lightened a little bit, so, they halved the pigment.\u00a0 You can see how much lighter it is here.\u00a0 And do you see those dark smudges?\u00a0 That&#8217;s the soot from the gas logs.\u00a0 I know&#8230;&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30611\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM.png\" alt=\"Stucco paint in the kitchen - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"640\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM.png 715w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM-321x323.png 321w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM-75x75.png 75w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM-110x110.png 110w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM-300x302.png 300w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-14-at-3.39.51-PM-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>The room looks so fresh and bright, that today I am busy painting the kitchen, which opens into the family room.\u00a0 If you follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the2seasonsblog\/\">Instagram<\/a>, then you know that already. \u00a0 The walls are only 9 feet tall, and I am only painting walls.\u00a0 Thank goodness, the soot damage was contained to just the great room, but now that I have started painting, it&#8217;s nice to have things freshened up.\u00a0 I painted the mud room yesterday.\u00a0 The crazy thing is that the rooms I really planned to paint this spring were the powder room and the laundry room.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30603\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4216-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4216\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4216-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4216-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_4216-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>There&#8217;s more painting in my immediate future.\u00a0 Jordan gets home from Iceland today, and I&#8217;m going to Charlotte at the end of the week to help her paint her kitchen cabinets white.\u00a0 Meanwhile, our son is coming for a short visit, so, I need to get these walls finished.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping in.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Take care.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After we discovered the damage our ventless gas logs had done to our walls, ceilings, and woodwork, we called in the pros to repaint the great room.\u00a0 It was such a treat for me to have someone else on a ladder painting that ceiling and the walls that are 10 feet tall.\u00a0 I have never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30614,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30556\/revisions\/30614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}