Paint has Happened!

Today we painted the entry end of the living room.  

We still need to paint the wall/ceiling border in both rooms and trim in the first part of the living room.  BUT the trim is painted in the cosy area.  Before and After-

So for some reason, this picture has spots that look like we did a crappy paint job.  Not so.  It’s not perfect, but the water marks are due to camera issues.

In honor of the now cozy room and the upcoming cozy weather and beauty of Fall, I lit a cozy-smelling candle.  These were half off at Hobby Lobby and smell Fallish.

Cinnamon Almond Latte, Apple Orchard, and Baked Apple Pie.

What’s been going on the last week…

Daniel took down the mirrors of death.

We had an amazing dry-wall team come to the rescue and put in new ceilings in every first floor room, the stairway, and the second floor bathroom.

Kitchen

Living room(s)

Stairway

Plus texture and paint

Plus texture and paint and some can lights

We also (finally) pulled up the carpet in the first floor living areas.  It was really nice for a change to work hard and have some instant gratification.  You pull it up, and voila- there’s a beautiful floor underneath.  Novel…

And we tore out the carpet in the master bedroom.  Nice-ish floors again!  Praise God!

Check out our ghetto sub-window unit!

The hardwood floors in the master bedroom are interesting…A nice change from the blue carpet.  What you can’t really see in this picture are the nasty tar balls that latched onto the wood floor when we removed the carpet pad.  It looked like the black foam particles from the multi-colored carpet pad were a poorer grade (vs. the accompanying 1970’s green & brown foam particles) and disintegrated, creating nasty tar balls that stuck to the floor. The lovely part about the nastiness is that we hired a cleaning company to come out just before we moved in. They took care of most of the tar balls.  As I mentioned earlier, with our close-date being postponed, we had to hire out a lot of the work that we had hoped to do ourselves.  This really turned out to be a blessing considering we still don’t have air conditioning on the first floor.  We found ourselves saying several times during the last 10 days, “this is the best $(insert amount) I’ve spent all year.”  It was so worth it to have the ceilings, texture, and cleaning done before we moved in!

What’s going on inside

Before more pictures come out, here’s a simple layout of the house. This might give you a better idea of what’s going on inside. The triangle on the first floor is the angled fireplace. Just to the left of the fireplace is the passageway under the stairs. The rooms are all boxes except for what’s listed as the living room and dining room. They are continuous and form a kind of backwards “L.”

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