spruce up

“It was Cinecittà in the middle of January, and it was absolutely freezing. And then all of a sudden there are too many of you in a small room, and it’s too hot. But there’s so much history there, always the ghost of Fellini. It still needs a little bit of a spruce-up, but it was great.”

Kirsten Conner, founder of Kirsten Conner Interior Design, agrees that seasonal decorating’s benefits go beyond an external spruce-up.

You probably don’t want to put a new coat of paint on your exterior walls in February, but winter is an excellent time for interior painting and giving your rooms a quick spruce-up.

One of the benefits of Disneyland getting a major land expansion via Galaxy’s Edge was a spruce-up for the rest of the park, from Sleeping Beauty Castle — now brighter, bolder and more overtly referencing the ink of the original animated work — to a fresh coat of paint and a few new illusions for the Haunted Mansion, a project that was completed during the pandemic.

In addition to the planned clock tower spruce-up, Joyal said the city had already contributed $5,000 to get the ad hoc planning committee going and another $50,000 to help the committee with other initial expenses, including merchandising and booking and reserving entertainment.