Progress...

It's been about a month- but I finally have some news about progress. I finally began priming and painting the bathroom. This is currently the only bathroom we have in the house. It's pretty spacious but everything is crammed into one area- the toilet sink and tub. I primed all of the woodwork in the bathroom. Typically I wouldn't paint woodwork, but it's got a late 70s feel to it. It's nice wood but will look even nicer with a medium bright white gloss.

I didn't get photos in time but I'm sure most of you who've been to our home remember the lovely purple bathroom. I'm happy to say that the color has been primed. This weekend we're painting the bathroom a fresh spring green. We are also putting in a new mirror and some polished nickel lighting. It seems polished nickel is becoming more popular. People must be getting tired of seeing brushed nickel everywhere. Whatever happend to brass? Oh yeah- that's right, brass sucks.

We are also doing more yard work this weekend and I can't wait. Here are some photos of the bathroom under construction.


sky light


This is about half of the open space we have under the other arch... Oooh the possibilities

I've just opened another can of worms...

So you know how I was painting the front sun porch and I didn't like the color? Well, I changed it. I really like the new color. It's called quiet terrace and I thought that was fitting. It's not as neutral as I usually go but looks good.

So here is what happened. I bought some semi gloss paint to start doing the trim. Well, the paint was all cracked and the fresh coat of paint looked a little less than fresh. I was reading Ranty's blog (my real estate agent for life) and she had been doing some work with a heat gun. Well I got inspired and took on another huge project. I am stripping all of the woodwork of paint in the front porch.

I guess you really can't see too much of a difference in the paint- but I notice it.


I'm almost debating not sanding and staining the wood because this rustic look is kind of cool. Although I like a clean crisp look so I'm sure it'll be stained and sanded.


There are alot more windows to do... Plus I also began stripping the bead board ceiling... Yeah, you heard right. I am taking on the task of stripping th ceiling and returning it to it's natural beauty. This is going to be an on-going project but it's going to look SOOOOO GOOD. Everything has to be done right.

More paint...

We are almost done painting the living room. We did a really nice color called Cottswald, Benjamin Moore of course. I think it looks pretty good with the other color, Flora, in the Dining room. I'm not really sold on it though. I typically 2nd guess myself everytime I paint a room. It looks so much better than the smokey yellow color so I really can't complain.

We got the chimney cleaned as well and had our first fire last night. What a good night for it! It was around -10 below last night. Brr... We are trying to move at the speed of light to prepare for our housewarming on Saturday. I am starting to realize that the house won't be perfect but we have come so far. We really needed to have the party before everyone had seen the house (which not too many people have).

I haven't taken any pictures of our progress over the last week but will post some tomorrow.