What to do? What to do?

For many months of this this project I found myself relegated to either collecting and organizing items which my step-brother and his wife would need to make final dispersal choices about, or looking for small projects that I could do without disturbing the "off site storage".

One thing that I had to do a.s.a.p. for my own sanity was to paint over the ceiling in the den.  It was yellow.  A rather bright yellow.  Not something that appealed to me. As soon as enough furniture was removed I had to start.  Off I went to Sherwin Williams to choose a white that I thought would compliment the wood paneling of the room.  I chose a shade called "Snowbound" and bought the HGTV brand of paint.  Why, I hear you ask, did I not just go buy ceiling paint?   The truth is, I didn't think of it.  Also, I wanted shading to the white that I chose so I used a regular flat paint.

Perhaps this was fortuitous because not only did this paint do a great job of covering on a textured plaster ceiling, it was also a good paint with which to work.
Here you see the room as I began to clear it out.  For some reason the ceiling didn't show quite as yellow in color as it was to the eye.
NOW you can see it.  I'm sure the original thought was that the yellow would give the impression of sunshine.  For my eye, it just added to the darkness of the wood.  Originally, this den was a breezeway between the garage and the house.  As a child I loved it because the floor was smooth cement and I used it as my own private skating rink!  I can still remember rollerskating in an arabesque position while singing "Bippity-Boppoty-Boo" from Disney's "Cinderella".

Here is the new light fixture I found at Lowes to replace the original fixture from around 1960.