Painting Day 2

Before: The doorframe was a really dark wood. After: Cool Gray!

Master Bedroom

More dark wood transformed into Cool Gray

The Master Bedroom: Thunder Gray, coat 1

The M family painting adventure!

Let the fun begin! We were up at 6:30 Saturday morning, drank our coffee, finished taping, then headed off to Lowes with our paint list. We decided on Seaside Villa and Dockside Harbor for the living room and dining room and Cool Gray for the baseboards and trim. We'll eventually paint the hallway doors with the Cool Gray also. Whoever said that painting is 90% prep and 10% painting was correct! We spent Friday night washing down the walls with TSP, spackling, sanding, and taping.

The super dark wood we desided to paint. We liked the wood but it was in terrible shape so we're hoping the white will bring it back to life.

Back stateside and back online!

Finally! I missed my blog. I have close to 1000 photos uploading even as we speak. T and I have been globe trotting and eating, choosing paint colors and unpacking. T was home today entertaining window people and floor refinishers. He was also here waiting for the cable people to reconnect us to the outside world. And here we are! I will be updating a lot the next few days because if I tried to upload all of the gorgeous Italy photos, I might crash our new hookup. Suffice it to say, Italy was Bellisimo! We ate the most delicious food I've ever tasted and saw incredible sights. We were up early every day, running off to museums and churches. I managed to stop at quite Gelaterias along the way! More details to follow, but we are back and starting to get settled in the new homestead. Love to all!

We're in!

Despite the less than stellar walk through, we closed on Wednesday morning! Tim immediately started the moving process with the help of one very unlucky friend. It's been a whirlwind couple of days and we can't wait to share pictures of the mess we currently have in our new basement. We won't have internet access until after we get back from Italy, so I'll check back in two weeks! Stay tuned!

Well, we walked through...

In preparation for our closing tomorrow, our realtor scheduled a walk through tonight so we could make sure everything was moved out and cleaned. Well, the seller was home and in the midst of moving out. She has a long night ahead of her to get the place in shape and finish packing all the last minute odds and ends. At least all the furniture was moved out! This was basically a wasted trip for us.

I was also disappointed to find out they already took down the sold sign. Sorry everyone, no cute picture of T and I with the sold sign on our first house. Anyway, at this point, I'd just settle for a vacant house to move into tomorrow. T and I have a long night of our own ahead to packing up, in hopes that we have a place to put our stuff tomorrow.

Some pictures from the walk through with our new camera.

Could it be?

As we are almost probably, practically definitely closing on the house on Wednesday (unless we don't) I thought I should pull out the picures of the house that has caused us all of these oodles of stress to remind us what we're been working so hard for.

The basement

Living Room

The Kitchen

Master Bedroom

Hurricane Cortland Manor

Some fun photos of the disaster area that we currently live in...

So..we have mold. In our closet. On my shoes.

T taking apart our shelves:

It's lovely isn't it? This is what pure chaos looks like:

More mold! This was underneath my dresser when we chucked it:

And...our bedroom threw up:

Can we leave yet?!?!