New Paint

The house is still a mess but I wanted to share the first pics of the new paint. We have a lot of "re" decorating to do over the next week after it fully dries. I'll post pictures of the finished project with rearranged rooms (that we did back in January) in a week or two. We are so happy with the paint. 

Don't mind the mess in these pics! 

This gives you a good view of three of the colors. We kept the living room, breakfast room and kitchen the same color. We went back and forth on the colors and decided to stay conservative since it's such a big space. 

The view of the dining room green and middle foyer orange. I was nervous about both of these colors. We are eventually going to put this green in the laundry room and guest bathrooms. 

The brown that is in the front foyer and hall way. 

Our bedroom. I'm not a big blue fan but this looks really good! 

Until next time! 

-A 

Christmas Time

This week our kitchen has finally started to come together. Chris sent me a text with a picture of the cabinets as they were being installed yesterday! I was in love but I can now tell you that I'm more in love since I've seen them in person.

We typically visit the house on Sundays but since we will be out of town we decided to go on our way out of town. This week they installed the locks on the doors so we now have to go during the times the sales office is open. I got to wear a pink hard hat today. I love it much more than the blue ones.

When we arrived they were working on installing all of the lights, switch covers and plug covers. I'm sure they'll get that done by the end of the day.

This week they installed the A/C and Heating unit, all of the cabinets and the marble counter tops for the bathrooms. They cleaned all that nasty water out of the bathtubs and at some point the sound system guy came and connected all of the surround sound in the living room and bonus room. They have prepared the steps for the railing and hard wood to be installed.

We are not sure how we feel about the marble in the guest and master bathroom. It looks much better in the bonus bathroom because we got plain white cabinets in that bathroom. The distressed look of the cabinets and the white marble don't seem to jive well but we'll see how it looks when it is finished. Worst case scenario is that we'll add installing new bathroom countertops to Chris' project list.

We are not going to see the house again until either Jan 1st or 2nd so I'm expecting a lot of changes in the next 10 days!

I'll be using this blog to write about the Bryant Family Vacation (think National Lampoons) which starts bright and early Christmas morning. We will be taking 3 RVs and 10 people to Williamsburg VA and Washington DC. Check back to enjoy some humor at my expense.

Here are some pics from the house this week.

Mid Week Update

We have shingles on the roof, the plumbing is almost finished being installed, and the termite protection has been sprayed. They finished wrapping the house with the water barrier wrap this afternoon!