Painting?

You are probably wondering how the painting is going - well we hit a snag - there was an ice dam on the roof, and it forced the melting water up under the shingles, and, well you can guess from there. Insurace has it covered, except for the roof. We have bought a new one of those, the stuck it on earlier this week.


We have been relocated to a furnished 2 bedroom apartment on te south side of the river. We have been here for almost a week now.


Here are some photos from the house that I took today:

Hope's room

Kitchen full of stuff

Livingroom

Bathroom

Dumpster in front yard

Family room

Front Entrance

Front

- by Andre

More Video! Sliding at Kings Landing

Sliding at Kings Landing Historical Settlement. This was a late weekend in March, where they feature the maple syrup activities.

VIDEO!

I just noticed that I can add videos!

Here is one that I took on my little Olympus Verve digital camera that I bought from Dad.

"Hope on the Slope"

- André

Dining room in HDR

OK - the Livingroom has been painted, and it is now the Diningroom. WHAT!? - you may say....

Over XMAS we had a lot of people over for dinner, so we moved the couch into the kitchen and the table into the livingroom to handle the 18 of us.

We liked it that way!

The kitchen is like a cozy café, and our wonderful (and large) dining room suite has room to breath, expand and entertain.

I decided to take a couple of photos to share (similar to what I would do for a client)...

We bought a couple of matching lamps to keep the symmetry.

Now - what is HDR? HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. This is where you take a bunch of photos and combine them. Why? Well, you take some photos that are dark too keep details in the highlights, and some photos that are bright, to keep details in the shadows. Then they are merged to keep detail everywhere!

I have been investigating some options and playing around - here are some examples. (I also want to find out if it could help in the Real Estate photo shots)

This is from Enfuse:

and this is from qtpfsgui (there are more options - harder to get a good image) :

And finally - you can get really extreme - and man does it look wierd!

Oh - here is what the photo looks like when you just shoot with no flash, and put the camera on auto:

Painting Time

The goal is to paint about half of the inside of the house before the nice weather comes - so we can be outside having fun, and not inside painting.

Here is the run down (we will post photos later)
Living room / dining room: same colour - needs another coat or 2 and some patching.
Kitchen: same colour - needs another coat.
Upstairs hall: same colour - needs another coat.
Kids rooms: new colours!
Downstairs hall: patching and another coat or 2
Office: new colour required!

So far the living room has been cleared and patched - painting scheduled for this weekend!

If anyone has tips for painting the entrance walls in a spilt level, please let us know! They are about 12-15 feet high.....

-André