HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

It's a perfect day outside, but Drew and I have resigned ourselves to a day of indoor painting. Yesterday we stripped our stairwell of photographs and other artifacts to prepare for the project. This morning we fueled up on caffeine (Drew had a double soy mocha and I ponied up for a triple iced Americano) and got down to business. I treated the wainscoting to a coat of milk chocolaty brown paint, a shade from that high priced whore known as Ralph Lauren. Meanwhile Drew's probably dislocating his shoulder in his efforts to give the ceiling a sparkling coat of white paint. Tomorrow we'll start painting the walls a warm creamish color that will (hopefully) provide a nice neutral backdrop for the bitchin' burgundy paint that we're going to slop all over the banister.