Operation "Vacation": Day 1 & 2
About a month ago, we both took off this week for an anniversary/4th of July trip to Ocean City, MD. As the week got closer and we started considering finances, the state of the house, my increasing girth and anticipation of how much harder it will be to do things as the months go on, and the need to get certain things done by the time baby reno arrives- we decided that instead we would declare war on the house and see how much we could get done in a week. At the end of day 2, I must say, we're pretty
optimistic. Although we're deliberately avoiding setting expectations of what the place will look like in a week, if the last two days are any indication we just might have the place done. Of course I'm kidding, but seriously- these have been two of the more productive days we've had in the new place- and that's saying a lot.
We started in the dining room, largely because I was itching to see what the new rug would look like down. We took it out of its packaging for the first time Friday night, and decided the walls might look good green. Since with all the renovations we've practically duplicated Sherwin Williams' wall of paint samples in our home, we went to our stash and picked out "Lemongrass", and thus we were off. In the last two days we did copious amounts of mudding and spackling, painted the ceiling, painted three of the walls green, one wall brown, and the cubby hole clay. After this was done we realized we had some prints that would look great, and proceeded to hang our first pieces of artwork in the house (only about 1 year later!) And I must humbly say, it all looks fantastic. Keep in mind the trim is a ways off from being done in this room, thus you have the unpainted areas around all the doors and floors which will one day be covered.
This was where we were mid-Sunday morning-
and our progress by early evening-
Per the usual for us this meant working through our anniversary, but we decided that making progress on the house was the best gift we could give each other. We did get the chance to head to dinner and we tiredly celebrated 2 years together. They have flown by, but they have been so much more than we could have asked for.
Our goal this week is to post our progress at the end of the night so stay tuned to see what we get to next!
optimistic. Although we're deliberately avoiding setting expectations of what the place will look like in a week, if the last two days are any indication we just might have the place done. Of course I'm kidding, but seriously- these have been two of the more productive days we've had in the new place- and that's saying a lot.
We started in the dining room, largely because I was itching to see what the new rug would look like down. We took it out of its packaging for the first time Friday night, and decided the walls might look good green. Since with all the renovations we've practically duplicated Sherwin Williams' wall of paint samples in our home, we went to our stash and picked out "Lemongrass", and thus we were off. In the last two days we did copious amounts of mudding and spackling, painted the ceiling, painted three of the walls green, one wall brown, and the cubby hole clay. After this was done we realized we had some prints that would look great, and proceeded to hang our first pieces of artwork in the house (only about 1 year later!) And I must humbly say, it all looks fantastic. Keep in mind the trim is a ways off from being done in this room, thus you have the unpainted areas around all the doors and floors which will one day be covered.
This was where we were mid-Sunday morning-
and our progress by early evening-
Per the usual for us this meant working through our anniversary, but we decided that making progress on the house was the best gift we could give each other. We did get the chance to head to dinner and we tiredly celebrated 2 years together. They have flown by, but they have been so much more than we could have asked for.
Our goal this week is to post our progress at the end of the night so stay tuned to see what we get to next!
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