Good weekend

On Saturday I got the final bedroom ceiling painted. We also hung up our blinds in the dining room. On Sunday got the paint up in bedroom. The color is a gray brown. It's the darkest color we've used in the house so far. The ceiling, floors and trim a very light so I think it looks great. I was worried it was going to look like a cave but I like it alot. I am officially tired of painting!

Since September we have gotten soooo much done inside the house. I am ready to start working outside again. Especially now that everything is pretty comfortable inside. My favorite thing to do is garden. I can wait for all of my plants to come back this year! We should have our new wood fence within the next 2 months and my hope is that we have new gutters and paint on the house by October. The more I say it and write it, the more likely it will happen.

Here are some photos of the progress of the bedroom and the dining room windows. We still need to trim the room out.

Workin it.

Last weekend we got quite a bit done on our front sun porch. We finished sanding the front door. We stained it pretty dark (ebony). We wanted it darker than our interior stain so that the front door really sticks out, on the exterior. We also sanded, and decided to just paint, the door frame and the window frame. It looks really good. All of the paint stripping really paid off. Although it was pretty tedious and time consuming. We still have alot of paint stripping to do around the windows and of course the bead board ceiling, which I will be staining- not painting. That should be a blast.

I didn't get a chance to take these until last night so they are a little dark. What do you think?


Otherwise we rehung pictures in the dining room and it made a huge difference. I got a really cool plant that fills some space in there too. Now I just need to get a center peice for the dining room table and some window treatments and blinds and we're all set.


I can't wait for Christmas. I can wait for the cold though.