color shift

Love. Love. Love. Totally digging the new paint job. We took some inspiration from the classic Eichler palette and ended up with a few good selects from Benjamin Moore.  Apparently the red we picked out was the same color used on the door in American Beauty. We worked with Built Square on the job. 

halloween

shades of gray

Scraping, sanding, tejano on a boom box….that’s the sound of home beautification. Painting kicked off this week, but not before extensive color tests and multiple trips to see our friends Sherwin and Benjamin. We have settled on “Gunmetal” and find it a fitting color and paint name for the Thiel household.

surprise inside

I have a rocky relationship with our dishwasher. I feel like all I do is empty the damn thing. Repeat. The other night while bitterly unloading it, I was admiring the fun color that used to be the exterior. Its 70s aura provides a smart little punch of color when you open them.

yard demo

We took out the prehistoric juniper bushes in the front yard. We coined the phrase "the Magnolia mangroves." It was a big job but we were thankfully able to do it all ourselves with sheer muscle power. I had envisioned the stone wall coming down and needing to rent a backhoe. We are letting the soil repair itself while we figure out what we want to do from a landscape design perspective.   

back from the top of the world

We've been in Iceland! Post and photos here. We just have to get over this cold from the dark ages we brought back as a souvenir.

beam it up

I've been meaning to get this post up for some time now. This was actually the first quick fix we did when we moved in last August. At some point the previous owner of 36thirty decided it was a great idea to paint over the beams in the house. The best part is that they were painted with a semi-gloss, institutional green. Classy.

With a single test quart, I was able to visually restore them to "wood." I don't think we could have effectively stripped them due to all the layers of paint. A fab (and cost effective) way to pull it back to the mcm post and beam l+f!