Let the painting begin.... but wait!

Excuse my NO-MAKEUP face... And I promise he's happy. Just doesn't smile much taking pictures..

Let the painting begin... but wait! 

WE HAVE THE HARDEST TIME DECIDING ON COLORS!!

We just happened to be at Home Depot Sunday... Imagine that! We aren't ever there..

Ha what a joke! :)

So we just went over to the paint just to look.. And of course left with 3 sample containers of paint. We just knew those were going to be the colors.. NOT! We liked the colors just not for where we were going to paint which by the way is our hallway..

 Don't know where we came up with painting it first.

 I guess it doesn't matter where we start because this whole house has to be painted. 

First attempt.. Too Light!

So yesterday we made a trip back to Home Depot. We picked out a few more colors and Joe said I want to get something done so let's just go ahead and get a few gallons of these. I have to be honest it made me nervous because i am super picky but i said what the heck we have 2200 square feet in this house to paint if i don't like the colors in the hallway we can use it somewhere else.

It's so funny how when you are house hunting you see all these houses with ridiculous paint on the walls... Sometimes i wonder what these people were thinking when they chose them. Like painting our hallway PURPLE!!! Who does that so i guess it was pretty important to get that changed quickly!

Before.. With Beige and Purple and OFFWHITE Chair Rail and Trim!
 (The purple was very bright purple in person.)

So... We started painting yesterday evening and didn't stop til it was almost done around 2 am. Yes we are tired but we are so motivated by seeing progress! I'm super blessed with the best man in the world. He is a workaholic. 

And he never starts a project that he doesn't finish. Sometimes I have to make him sit down and relax because he will just go, go, go! 

We were worried the whole time we were painting until it was done NOW then, we LOVED it! So patience is the KEY! ;)

AFTER: The picture doesn't do it justice... But it's a light grey and the bottom is a dark grey and FRESH WHITE Chair Rail and Trim... Nothing better!
We had the best time together painting... like we do with everything we do together! This adventure we have taken on together is so much fun and rewarding! 
OH YEAH, I forgot to tell y'all... Our first BIG project that will be starting soon.. well we've already started it just had little things to do first. Our Kitchen... Just to give you a brief on my current situation. The kitchen I'm using right now is in the new addition the previous owners had built two years ago. They had a kitchenette there.  So that's what I'm working with because we purchased this home without a kitchen. The previous owners were in the process of remodeling it and had already torn everything out including the cabinets. So we are so excited about designing and building our perfect kitchen. We have been shopping around for cabinets. And I think we have it pinned down to where we will buy from and what we will get.  
  
One of the best places to get cabinets in ATLANTA. This place you could very easily get LOST in.

My Love shopping for cabinets.
Can't wait to get this project in full swing!

Super Blessed,ERICA :)

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING... TODAY MARKS 2 WEEKS!

We haven't got any HUGE renovations done but hey I guess I need to give us a break. TODAY marks 2 weeks since we closed on our house and moved in. It seems like its been a lot longer than that with all the odd and end jobs we have done. I can't wait to start the big renovations so I can blog more and show more pictures.

 

Two days after we moved in... I was home while Joe was at work. And the house started feeling pretty warm. Went to look at the thermostat... Yeah the AC was definitely BROKE AGAIN!! Since Joe and his dad know so much about fixing almost anything.. The best thing to do was to wait til they got off work so they could check it out. I debated on whether or not to even call Joe and tell him it was broke again because I really didn't want him to have to worry about the dogs and I being in the house all day with no AC!

HOT HOT HOT!!!

After a few hours both of my LONG HAIRED FUR BABIES, Princess Gucci and Buddy were so hot they couldn't stop panting so I got in the shower with each one of them and got them soaking wet, towel dried them and it worked wonders.. They didn't pant the rest of the day! Since I haven't posted anything about them yet (But its coming) I'll Post a picture of them both when they aren't soaking wet so you can see they really aren't nasty wet dogs all the time ;)

 

 

So luckily the AC was just a wire that had burn up. They got it fixed in NO time.  Thank GOD!

 

So many have asked about the blue tarp that was on our roof when we bought it... Well we were quite concerned about it when we put the offer on it too.. But someone that lives close by told us that Freddie Mac had a company come out and put it on there because there was a spot in the house on the ceiling that had water marks from a leak..  well little did they know the leak was before they replaced the roof. We knew that the roof was only a year old so that was pretty crazy that it had a tarp. Anyways after FM paid a company $2000 just to come nail a tarp on the roof they caused the only problem that we had with the roof... The nail holes where they nailed the tarp... What geniuses!

All it took was too early morning before the sun came up for Joe to get it down and fill all the holes with tar.

 

WITH TARP...

 

AND WITHOUT...

MY SEXY ROOFER ;)

The other day Joe was out working in the yard trimming up some bushes and tree limbs. He came inside to let me know that a Caterpillar had stung him... Who knew they did that? I sure didn't! This was nasty looking. And the spikes it left behind made a nasty looking place on his neck. Scared me to death because I didn't know if he was allergic or not! So of course I went to googling it.. This is what he looked like.

It didn't sound like they were poisonous so I was able to relax some... It looked bad for hours.. But it finally went away!

 

 

I have a lot more to blog about but I don't want to go on and on with this one so... until next time!

 

Have a great 4th of JULY if I don't blog before then!

 

Love, ERICA

 

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