My Favorite Elf

Steve and I have long had different sleeping patterns. He is the inveterate night owl, and I am most decidedly not. Steve does his best work between 10 p.m. and 2 p.m., while I am snoring contentedly. I usually even block out the tromping about, scraping of wallpaper and other construction noises (with a few exceptions, like once when he forgot what time it was and decided to vacuum the living room rug with the SHOP-VAC at 1 a.m. I thought an airplane landed in the house.)

Ever since we bought the house, Steve has loved to surprise me with his progress or completed projects when I awake the next morning. During the busy fall season, Steve was in a mad rush to finish the guest bedroom and several other major projects before our guests arrived at the end of October. It’s like Christmas all year when I can go to bed and find a new project waiting each day. (Last weekend, I awoke Sunday morning to find the entire dining room completely repainted! More on that later.)

Cheers to the House Elf!

Marty says:

30 November, 2011 at 9:26 pm

Cute! I thought you might talking about The Elf on the Shelf. That would definitely be a different elf!

Melissa says:

1 December, 2011 at 4:11 pm

I think the " late night prime working time gene" runs through the Richie line. Thomas works his best at night, but his ideal schedule is more like 4 pm -1 am. I don't know how he does it…

I love that grey. Is that the new color? Can't wait to read about it!

1 December, 2011 at 4:16 pm

Nope, just found my answer. That's the guest room color…it's almost exactly what we painted our kitchen (Benjamin Moore's London Fog, half-formula). I can't get enough grey!!

Steve says:

2 December, 2011 at 12:08 am

Actually, we liked that grey so much in the bedroom that we just used it to repaint the dining room. We have a chair rail in there, so we used this above the chair rail and went one shade darker below the chair rail. I need to get some pictures when the sun is up since the yellowish lights in there don't do the colors justice at night. We never really liked the colors we chose for there a year ago, which was a roman plaster/taupe above the chair rail, and a darker shade that ended up too green below it. Way too much earth tones. I think Rachel has a post about the dining room in the works. But the grey is one of our favorite colors we've found. Looks soooo good.

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21 December, 2011 at 10:12 am

[…] dining room literally on the day Rachel’s family left town, and finished up the next night. (Hence her last house elf post.) It’s the same grey that we used in the second bedroom above the chair rail, and a slightly […]

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