New Carpet!

New Carpet!
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YAY! Holy progress! As J said, "this has been a huge payoff weekend." The picture here is as of Monday, 4/27. Carpet was installed this morning. I haven't seen it in person yet but I'm so excited that I can hardly stand it. Although... the colors don't look right at all in this photo (IE the back wall is orange).

This weekend could not have been completed without the help of Adam and Megan, (you guys rock)! Because of their time and effort we were able to paint AND prime the whole house! We were just hoping to get through priming and hopefully have the loft painted. It's exciting to see the place really come together like this.

I've posted pictures on Flickr but I'm going to take some more because I don't feel like they are a good representation of the HUGE success!

Meet the New Neighbors... of sorts...

As the snow has melted, J and I have got to see more and more of the yard behind the new house. We knew it was decent sized for being on a city block and we were excited at the possibilities of fencing it in for the pups.

In the last few weeks, a surprise of sorts has come out of the house buying adventure and the pictures below portray our new neighbors...

Yep, headstones. Who would have thought? I certainly had not considered the possibility of having headstones in the back right corner of our yard, but behold! We checked with the real estate agent and she thinks the stones don't come with any organic remains, but it makes you wonder nonetheless.

At first it was quite a shock and I was a little (ok a lot) weirded out by the prospect of having headstones in the backyard. But after raking and spending some time with the attention-grabbing icons, I've had a little change of heart... Now my interests are piqued and I have more curiosity if nothing else for the names on the stones. The area is full of the last name Peltier and I'm half tempted to open up the phone book and have some heart to hearts.

Last week we started some seedlings inside and are planting an array of fruits and veggies for the garden, of notable mention would be the pumpkins. It seems there is the perfect little incline directly behind the headstones for a pumpkin patch... and I'm thinking about getting a bat house too! All the comforts of Halloween, year round. :-)

Bathroom in progress...

Bathroom in progress...
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Thanks for all the feedback on the design options. Last night M and I rocked the bathroom wall. It took awhile to get things adjusted, we used a projector to display the tree on the wall and then modified from there. Overall this design resembles option C the most but the curve near the bottom isn't quite as pronounced. We also took out some of the crazy branches to make it look less busy and intimidating.

Tonight I plan to touch it up a bit but the hard part is over and M did all the hard work of removing the pencil marks from the wall. Now we just have to cover up a few unpainted spots and that will be one room finished... with some big ones still left...

Cast your votes, please! :-)

Options... here they are. This is my bathroom wall. If you'd like to see more photos of the bathroom, jump on over to my Flickr page. For sanity's sake, let's call the options A, B, and C, respectively. :-)

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C:

Painting a house...

Wow, now there's something I hadn't planned on quite yet. The remodeling is moving quickly and I think it's time to consider what type of paint should go on the walls.. Hopefully the drywall will be completed early this weekend and will be followed by an intense session of mudding, tapeing, and sanding!

I love colors... I think sometimes that I overuse color and forget how great using white can look... especially in my designs. But, having grown up with white walls, I think I want to add lots of color to the walls of our first home.


I stopped at Sherwin Williams on the way home the other day just to view what they have to offer... This is the already-picked color palette that I like the most. I'm not opposed to mixing and matching and I will probably be doing some of that too but I thought this might provide a good base. Thoughts?

I'm currently leaning toward the Tigereye on the East wall and the Basket Beige on the North and South.
So that's my really, really bad 3d interpretation... and the colors aren't quite true. They are both deeper and provide a "richer" feel, or at least I think so. The other palette colors, like the dark brown, will hopefully be the wood furniture color (table, chairs, shelves) and the teal color would be more for accent. Or at least that's how I'm picturing. The real conundrum then is what to do with the bathroom.... any ideas?

Going on the wall.....

Found these images on Etsy today. I think they are going in the new house... too cool...

Happy Friday!

"It will cost you nothing to dream--and everything not to." --Author Unknown

Tis Friday! Lots of house stuff to do this weekend. A few brave and awesome friends are going to help with insulation, drywall and other odd projects. I'll be doing the photography documentary as usual and probably making some foods to keep everyone's hunger at bay.

I should be updating the flickr account with more photos. I've taken some through the course of the week and there has definitely been a few changes!

Stay Tuned!

Open your eyes..

"It doesn't take much to see the world with bright eyes. One only needs to open them." -- David Rippe

This weekend I definitely had the opportunity to open my eyes. Last week a friend of mine looked at the house that J and I are buying and said, "Wow, this would make an amazing loft." Immediately we saw it too... Eyes, opened. :-)

That statement, after some consideration became a new goal and one that we've been working hard at over the weekend. Between burying ourselves in blown in insulation and ripping down some old drywall and walls, I'd say it is going well. Thanks to M&P Mortgage for the funds to make any of this possible and to my Mom for the long hours of demolition this weekend!

To view the progress of the "lofting," take a look at my flickr page.

Image via ffffound.

The house = pain in the butt...

Winter Carnival 2009
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Today I've been successfully turned down by two separate mortgage lenders. Go me.

Apparently in these hard and dire times it is mandatory to have the coined term "Full Time Employment" in your back pocket. As some of you know, I am currently working as a contract employee, 40+ hours per week until August. At that time, if I am no longer employed by my current employer, I submitted a letter stating that I would have full time employment from my job at a sporting goods shop.

I am quite irate... that's all I've got.