Bye Blog, Its Been Real

My presentation is in one week, and all my material is due on Monday, so it's time to say good bye.  It been handy having a place to keep all my research, and share my progress on such an accessible platform.  Having my entire project on this blog is nice it shows how the project as grown and ended. Maybe one day if I'm feeling nostalgic I will look back on my WISE project.

Mentor Meeting 6/3

Today we talked about my upcoming presentation.  I read her my draft I had made of what I wanted to cover in my presentation.  I'm going to have to work on being concise because I have a ton of information.  I will highlight an aspect different parts of rooms, but also have some general parts of the house that I will go over once because they occur in every room (things like floor repair, wood repair, and walls.  I'm going to have note cards with major points to cover, but not all of what I want to say.  We really want to highlight the research I have done because like I said there is a lot of it.  This week end I'm going to be preparing everything I have to send to my evaluators on Monday, then starting to plan my presentation more.

Bathroom Painting

Living Room Painting

In Class Meeting 6/2

In class we talked more about our roles as community evaluators.  We got a hand out that goes over how to behave, and not insult any one.  This included how to give consecutive feed back but say it in a positive way,  not really my specialty but I'm going to work on that.  We also went over how to create our blog into a "book",  which is just putting all of our posts into chronological order.  Several more people shared their artifacts, then time was up.

Mentor Meeting 5/28

We talked about what we did in class, then the time frame for finishing the project.  The biggest challenge we talked about is to compile all the information I have. I want to print out large pictures of at least the outside of the house, because it's impressive.  I would also like to have large versions of other rooms I painted.  I will look into that this week.  We talked about different presentation sites to use. One we talk about was using Prezi so I can zoom in and out.
I'm going to start with the "base line" parts of restoration that are in every room (floors, walls, windows).  To do I should start with start with dining room because it has almost everything that's repeated.  I will start with the outside and talk about the overall information (who live there/ history).  Then go to renovation and furniture in the inside of the house.  My mentor mentioned I should look for music during the period time, to get in the mood.  I hope to be done with the bathroom painting by this week end, them focus on project presentation. By our next mentor meeting I hope to have a draft of the information I want to include.

Furniture- Bedrooms #1-4, and Foyer

Bedroom 1 is called the "Blue Room", because every piece has some accent of blue.  After seeing the Argos Inn and the owner's themed rooms, it inspired me to do the same.  The room has the same type of antique furniture as the rest of the house, with an armor, chair, bed, mirror, side table and rug.  These pieces are in all of the 4 rooms.

Bedroom 2 is the "Princess Suite" because it has an on suit bathroom, as well as a princess style bed.  The rose gold color scheme adds to the princess vibe of the room, as well has the pale pink.

This room is the "Day Room" because it has a day bed.  I wanted a room with two twin beds, but I could not find the style of bed I wanted.  The color is similar to the rest of the house, being pale colors and whites.

This room is the "Matted Room" because it has matt purple/ gray colors.  This room is the smallest so it has the least amount of furniture.

The foyer is the room you leave and enter into, which typically had a table in the middle of the room, benches off to the side, then a full length mirror.