We Have a House!

WoooHoo!!  We are officially homeowners again!!  On June 16th, we closed on our new house!!  Then that following weekend, we begin painting……everything!  The house we purchased is fairly out of date, it was built in the late 60's and I don't think much has been updated since then.  Although there is an endless list of projects we would like to get to, we had to draw the line somewhere because we needed to get moved in.  So, we started with painting, I think we painted every room on the main floor and the upstairs, except the hall ways.  We were blessed with some amazing help on our first "painting weekend", as Erik's parents and sister, my parents and brother, aunt, and cousin's husband came to help.  We still had quite a ways to go, but it was great to get a good start on things!  Here are some pictures from our "painting weekend". :)

Small portion of the front of the house, you can hardly walk on that sidewalk as the bushes are overtaking it.

Ahh, better!  Craig did a little "trimming" :)

Living room, wish I would have gotten another "before" picture as there were HUGE cornices (headers) :) above those lovely green curtains.

Standing in living room looking into dining room, more cornices and curtains, but they are already gone.

Standing in living room looking into front entry way

Family room with its lovely wallpaper coming down :)

Standing in family room looking into kitchen

Kyler's bedroom

Girls' bedroom

Half bath off master :)

Our bedroom

Ben working on the ceiling in the living room

Leah and Mark working in the dining room….finally some color!!

Erik trimming in the living room

Lunch break on the back porch!

(This wasn't the same weekend but…) Erik starting to paint the fire place

All done!

This wasn't the same weekend either, but on a whim, we decided to paint our garage floor, and I'm SO GLAD we did, it looks amazing.