But regardless, here’s what the bedroom foyer looks like as of this morning. It dawned on me yesterday as I was working that I can’t keep the doors on this bathroom (which will be a storage closet) painted teal. These will have to be painted, and white seems like the obvious color since all of the other doors in the bedroom are painted white. That’s going to be quite a change! I don’t think these doors have ever been white.

Way back when I did the original bathroom remodel, I painted those doors black.

And then I think it was a couple of years later that I decided to change them to teal. And they’ve been teal ever since.

So painting those doors white will be a big change, but it’s obviously the only color that makes sense.

And I have to tell you that after all of that indecision on how to finish out the doorway to the walk-in closet and fretting over how it would look to have this doorway be different from all of the others in the house, I am absolutely thrilled with how this looks. I just love how that trim looks wrapped around the door jambs.

Since it was going to be different, I wanted it to be obviously different, which is why I didn’t want to use any kind of standard or modified door casings around the opening. I wanted it to look very obviously intentional, and I’m very pleased with how it looks with the other two doorways in the foyer.

So that’s all of the progress so far. As I said, it’s not a huge difference from how it looked the last time I showed you, but I promise, lots of progress has been made!

I have more caulking to finish, and then I hope to get everything in the foyer painted by the end of the weekend. That might be an ambitious goal, but I’m going to try my hardest. I’m ready to move on to the bedroom trim!

And yes, it probably makes more sense to do all of the trim in the whole area, including the bedroom, before doing any painting. But when have I ever done anything in the right order? And I really need to see something finished very soon to keep me motivated. But I could always change my mind, also. Maybe I’ll decide to do the logical thing and finish all of the trim before I start any of the painting, but I wouldn’t count on it if I were you.

And on another topic, Jonathon G. Wells is back. Remember him? I wrote a whole post about him because he’s a lunatic, in my humble opinion, and since he’s a business owner who presumably goes into clients’ homes, I thought people should know what kind of person he is. It’s been a while, but he has reared his ugly head again.

I’ve blocked him on all social media, and I blocked him from sending messages to my phone, but I guess I didn’t realize that he can still send me voicemails. And that’s what he did. I’m sharing this publicly because he made outright threats this time, and I want this information to be very public because seriously, if anything happens to me, to Matt, to any of our animals, to our house or property, etc., I want thousands of people to know who to point the finger to immediately. And while I got sidetracked last time and didn’t take out a restraining order against him, I won’t fail to do so this time.

So last night, I realized that it had been a few days since I listened to my voice messages. I don’t answer phone calls unless it’s someone I know personally, and I almost never listen to voicemail because they’re never important. So imagine my shock when I got this voicemail from Jonathon G. Wells:

Yes, Kristi, it’s Jonathon Wells. It is about 4:30 in the morning. I have been made aware of your egregious post. My attorney has already been contacted. Take it down by 9:00am this morning or you will not be happy with the outcome. And that is a THREAT. I’ve already contacted the Waco police department. I have contacted others. You have no authorization to use any of the screen captures or any of the commentary that you have made. Completely inappropriate. You are unhinged. You are unwell. I simply mentioned “dust” on your ridiculous post gluing Christmas ornaments to your bathroom ceiling. You are a fat, ugly, disgusting c*nt. I am not playing now. I am serious. I thought that perhaps you had wised up and removed everything and let it go. Cleary you didn’t. You’re a sick piece of f*ck. Now take it down by 9:00am. That’s my final warning.

Let’s all take a second and laugh at the absurdity of him saying that I don’t have the authorization to use screen captures of his website where he used pictures stolen from other designers for his portfolio. So he can steal other designers’ pictures and put them in his portfolio, but I can’t take screenshots of his website. That’s rich. And absurd.

The second one was sent at 3:37am on Monday, September 15th.

Subject: CIVIL SUIT

The text of the email said:

Get ready. To lose everything.  All of it.  Every last cent you have. This lunatic is ON. You Fat, Ugly, Dusty C*nt.

The third one was sent at 4:21am on Monday, September 15th.

Subject: FAT C*NT – TAKE THIS DOWN IMMEDIATELY. ALL OF IT. EVERY UNAUTHORIZED SCREEN CAPTURE. EVERY COMMENT. EVERY LITTLE BIT. EVERY MENTION OF MY NAME AND COMPANY. IMMEDIATELY. I WILL COME TO WACO, YOU FAT UGLY C*NT. DON’T PLAY WITH ME ANY MORE.

The text of the email said:

I HAVE YOUR HOME ADDRESS.  YOUR HUSBAND’S WORK ADDRESS.  I HAVE ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION. YOU SHOULD BE VERY VERY AFRAID.  AFTER ALL, I AM A LUNATIC, RIGHT? BC I COMMENTED “DUST” ON YOUR POST. STALKER.  

For the record, I’d be very interested to know Matt’s work address. Anyway, I will be taking action this time, no question. These days, when someone says they have your address and make outright threats, that has to be taken seriously. Jonathon G. Wells is unhinged. And again, I want this information out there because if something nefarious happens to me, Matt, our animals, or our property, I want thousands of people to know immediately where to point the finger.

But here are some of the first things on the agenda. First, I need to deal with the ceiling light in the foyer. Before we started moving walls to square up the new bathroom (back when this hallway was much larger), this light was centered in this area. Now that walls have been moved, the light is in a very awkward position that makes no sense at all.

But if I center it in the smaller area, it’ll be jammed right up against the air return vent (is that what those are called?) for our HVAC. The return vent can’t be moved, so that means that the light needs to go away.

So I’m thinking about adding some wall sconces to the foyer instead of having a ceiling light. I could add two sconces flanking the full-length mirror I plan to put on this wall.

And then I could add more lighting on this wall to the left of the closet doorway where I plan to put an upholstered bench and artwork.

I need to think through that a bit more, but I really do want to get rid of the ceiling light altogether. And that needs to happen before I can start putting up grasscloth wallpaper.

Also, the door in the bedroom needs to be installed. This is the door I bought…

And it will replace the big window on the left — the window that’s on the front of the house.

I know this is a controversial decision, but it’s the decision that makes me feel peaceful. The door was supposed to be installed last week while I was still on break, and I was so excited about the idea of coming back from my break and showing y’all the installed door. But the door arrived one day too late for my contractor to hold my position in line. Literally, one day too late. Ugh! So he had to move on to go ahead and move on to another customer, and he’ll get back to me when that project is finished. He said it would be about two weeks. But obviously, that also needs to be done before I can finish up the grasscloth wallpaper in the bedroom.

Next item on the list that needs to be done immediately is moving the breaker box up about eight inches. It’s right in the way of the wainscoting that I’m planning, and I don’t want to move the wainscoting down any lower than 32 inches.

But this whole area has given me grief. I’ve been stressed about how to decorate around/over a metal breaker box in the bedroom, but over my break, I finally had clarity on how to handle it (I think). I have a plan for how to make it disappear and make this whole area make sense. So I’m not stressed about it anymore. But it does still need to be moved up about eight inches.

And then I need to get this attic access taken care of. Obviously, I don’t want to have this in our bedroom, but moving this will be quite a project.

I want the attic access to go in what is now the hallway bathroom, so getting this done will mean that I’ve actually arrived at the point that the hallway bathroom needs some significant changes. I will have to remove the corner cabinet and shelves just inside the bathroom to the right to make way for the new attic access.

I’ve been procrastinating on this because I love this bathroom. It was the second room I remodeled in our house, and I’m a little sentimental about it. But this will be a stepping stone towards bigger and better things. So as sad as it makes me, it’s time. The cabinet and shelves need to come out and the new attic access needs to go in so that I can continue on with my bigger plan and bigger vision.