I picked up the paint for the living room this week and spent all of this afternoon preparing to paint, painting and cleaning up from painting. Painting is awful. I think I probably spent as much time moving furniture, cleaning walls, wrangling tape and drop cloths, and cleaning paint covered implements as I did actually painting. I still have the section to do where the breakfast table is but I decided I was tired of painting and had other things that needed doing anyway. I’ll probably finish up next weekend. In the mean time I have a couple of pictures.
I have wanted a new TV for a long time. The TV I currently own is a fairly old CRT that I have had since I was in college. It is, in fact, old enough that it does not have an s-video connector and we have been through at least two other connector standards since the s-video was hip and with it. Samsung has started selling an LED backlit LCD television and I think I am going to buy one. I’d like one of the 55″ 8 Series but they’re apparently a little hard to come by right now and they’re a bit spendy as well. And, of course, you can’t just get the TV. I’d want a blu-ray player (probably a PS3) and a good surge suppressor to protect it since the only time we get rain here anymore it comes in the form of giant ice balls with lightning coursing through them. I have one complaint about the TV. It has four HDMI inputs but only a D-sub connector for computers, no DVI. That is silly. I realize that there are DVI-HDMI adaptors out there and that I could just get a video card that outputs HDMI but it’s just kinda dumb is all. I mean, considering how much the TV costs I don’t think it would have killed them to throw the extra connector on. Plus, who the hell still uses D-sub? Even DVI is getting a little long in the tooth.
No word on the chairs yet. It’s only been a week though so that’s ok. Since I’m probably going to have to take a half day from work to wait for the delivery people anyway maybe once I know when they’re coming in I could arrange to have a television delivered on the same day. How self-indulgent would that be?
Anyway, TV GOES HERE:
Yay! That looks nice!
Did it make the room feel much smaller?
Not too much. I think it might be a shade too red but the color depends pretty heavily on the light in the room so I may be worried for no reason. Plus I don’t have the chairs yet and the wall brown was chosen to coordinate with them as well as the rest. I really like the way the off-white woodwork looks against the painted wall.