{"id":1253,"date":"2011-07-02T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2011-07-02T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:43:43","slug":"off-topic-home-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Off-Topic: Home Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kitchen with its wall of faux-wood paneling (the same paneling that&#8217;s in the living room and the room that extends from the kitchen to the furnace room\/utility room.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-chairs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1254\" title=\"kitchen-chairs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-chairs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-chairs.jpg\"><\/a>And yes, that&#8217;s the same picture used when I got the new chairs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is how that looks today, after painting the wall this morning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-w-flash119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1255\" title=\"kitchen-w-flash119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-w-flash119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><em>This was shot with flash on<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-no-flash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256\" title=\"kitchen-no-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kitchen-no-flash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>This was shot with flash off. The kitchen window, directly across, yields warm light&#8211;green\/gold&#8211;from trees.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We really like the new look.\u00a0 We&#8217;re wondering why we weren&#8217;t smart\/organized\/energetic enough to do this years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s more to do&#8211;this is only part of that wall (we lacked the energy today to move the refrigerator and paint that alcove) but it&#8217;s so much better I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll finish.\u00a0 Might even do the other rooms, in stages.\u00a0 (Many many books would have to be moved&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kitchen with its wall of faux-wood paneling (the same paneling that&#8217;s in the living room and the room that extends from the kitchen to the furnace room\/utility room.) And yes, that&#8217;s the same picture used when I got the new chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}