It rained hard all day today. We knew it would - and spent the day lazily cleaning out a room to paint. Even though the kids can't go outside, Kusadasi is different for them and they can find enough things to entertain themselves.
Tolga and I always have a list of projects we want to do. Our summer home is a duplex - three floors with a small living room kitchen and bathroom on the ground floor, three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor, and our room and bathroom on the third floor. Our third floor was a project a couple of years ago - we raised the roof, closed off the room, put in an air conditioner - and now we sleep there with the kids on a mini-pull out sofa on the floor. (It was two cribs in the years before). The terrace iron fence was a project from two years ago. Tolga bought some metal paint to re-cover the iron around the terrace - but had only managed to do the front gate before the rains. We haven't been so ambitious in our projects lately because our kids take most of our attention, but today we were able to clean out one of the small rooms to paint it. It was in desperate need of painting - and we did three walls tan, and one wall a deep midnight blue - with almost a hint of green.
The humidity in the summer home is problem - and it always makes me think of those who had homes the Jersey Shore - and what they did with it. The paint is always flaking or turning to dust from moisture seeping through the walls - so I we bleached the walls and bought paint that will hopefully prevent mold or mildew from returning.
We threw out the bed. It was a bed with storage inside - a nifty solution to low storage space in homes - put a trap for moisture and hard to keep clean. We did a terrible patch-up putty job, slapped on paint - and I kept remembering the days we were painting together at my parents apartments, and before then, in my New York place. I'm not very good at it - but it's fun to do it together.
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