Labor Day Weekend
This was a major painting weekend at the Snow residence. We both buckled down and knocked out the entire living room (all tan), the hallway (green), and two of the walls in the master bedroom (the red accent wall and the tan windowed wall next to it). The red wall took 3 coats of paint AFTER I put on the bubbblegum pink primer coat. Yes, it was literally bubblegum pink. I have the pictures.
I still definitely have to go back and do some major touch ups, especially where the paint peeled off with the stupid tape, but all-in-all we are a lot closer to being finished than we were before! Painting that still needs to be done: 4 of the 6 walls in the master bedroom plus the arch, the walls in Sarah's room, the yellow walls in the kitchen (behind the washer and dryer), the ceilings in the hallway, bathroom, and dining/kitchen, AND ALL the doors and trim... I guess we're about halfway there.
My favorite part of the weekend was the insane sales that Home Depot and Lowes were having on houseplants! I got three, two that are table plants and one big one that sits on the floor. Cheap terra cota become custom pottery after I painted them with extra wall paint to get a perfect match to our decor.
Scott installed a new sconce light in the hallway (SO much nicer than the one the house came with) AND an outdoor ceiling fan/light out on the back patio. We are officially set up to entertain past dusk now!
We took advantage of the living room being in compelte disarray to rearrange the furniture in there. It actually looks like all 3 bookcases have a valid place now and aren't just crammed in haphazardly because we have no place else to put them.
The big project on my list after painting was curtains. Scott had been complaining about our temporary paper blinds and lack of privacy, etc for a while. Curtains were a little bit of a sore spot with us since we had a very hard time agreeing on what they should look like. I prefer to match the contemporary theme we have going with the rest of the house: monotone, black, red, and brown. Scott wanted something with a little more life. I bought 17 yards of white sheer fabric from JoAnne's, thinking that would be a good place to start. Unfortunately, my sewing machine was missing a power cord from the move so that project came to a screaming halt before I could even really get started.
The Next Weekend
I decided to try my luck for curtains at Bed Bath and Beyond, even though I had never seen anything I remotely liked before. I did stumble across these black, tan, and gold striped curtains that ended up working perfectly in the bedrooms. Scott got the curtain rods up and now we are both happy. I also found a red and a tan scarf to go over the living room window, and a matching red scarf to go over the dining room window once we get a rod that actually fits it.
On Thursday I went shopping with my friend Tiffany, Linens N Things in Vista just happened to be having a close out sale. Found a whole new bedset (red and brown) for $56, a black mirror set for above the couch, a couple picture frames, new candle centerpiece set for the coffee table, and a couple other things. Scott actually liked the stuff I picked out, much to my surprise.
Yesterday
I started hanging some of our pictures on Saturday, now that we have some painted walls. It got me focused on all the empty frames I have sitting around with no pictures to put in them. So, I went through our wedding disks and the other pictures I have on my computer and got everything sized to fit the frames I have available.
The big challenge was for these two L shaped collage frames my mum got me a million years ago. They are very cool looking (we had discovered them in Costco together back before she moved to Utah) BUT the picture openings are not anything close to standard picture size OR even standard picture dimensions. It required a lot of measuring, cropping, and copy pasting multiple photos into standard 4x6 and 5x7 sized images.
It was easy enough to print everything out through the do-it-yourself machines at Kinkos, and really it only cost about $30 for all of them. I was even able to scan our formal cruise picture that they refused to give me digital copy for so I could get it in a 5x7 rather than the 8x10 they gave me. (They wanted like $40 extra, it was ridiculous). Kinkos, btw, does not actively watch what you're doing to check for copyrights etc.
Scott was a little unhappy that I was "wasting" my time working on pictures when he felt getting the sheer curtains made was a more pressing need, so after I was done with Kinkos I headed over to Anna's Linens and VOILA: 4 sets of chocolate brown sheer curtains, 63" long (very hard to come by anywhere else) and matching chocolate brown curtains for the little kitchen window.
While I was there, I also had to grab two European pillows (now that we have European shams), some brown sheets to match our new bedset, there was this really nice painting on clearance that had all the right reds in it, etc etc.
Final trip for the day was to Target where I got a couple more frames and a BUNCH of red and brown candles. The whole house smells like apple and sandlewood now. I love it <3
SO. I've still got quite a bit more painting and hanging to do, but all in all, the house is FINALLY starting to come together! A couple more productive weekends like this month and we might be about ready to have our long-overdo housewarming party!
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