Hello bloggy friends! I've dropped by real quick to let you know that we are officialy finished painting our house! :) For this I am overwhelmed with joy! Now, we're moving on to (I assume) base boards, cabinets, toilets, tubs, and all things of this nature. I've said all this to say....God's been good!
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More Painting Down
Last night, my darling husband and I went to the house to paint away the evening and we did just that!
We finished the master bathroom and the kitchen! I can't tell you how in love I am with the color we picked for the kitchen. I can't descirbe it (other than it's the same color as a Hershey bar) and the pictures sure don't do it justice, but here she is.
litchen - valspar humboldt earth
It looked wonderful in the dark last night, but I'm sure it'll look totally different in the daylight. Our cabinets are a light wood (if I can find a picture, I'll post them) and are going to look beautiful in our brown kitchen!
Moving through the dining room & the master bedroom, you find your way to our newly painted master bathroom! It's a little more bright than we expected, but nonetheless, it's finished and hopefully my brown accents will help tone it down a little!
master bathroom - valspar surf spray
I included several different shots trying to get a good picture of the true color; I didn't achieve that! It's more bright in person but I'm ok with it and DH says, "It'll have to grown on me!"
That's all I have for you today...our painting is over for the week until Friday when I'm off from work. I'm hoping to get the 1/2 bath, dining room, & wash room painted Friday. After that, we'll be finished, unless we have to put a second coat in the living, guest, & master bedrooms...
House Work...
OK blog followers...here's what happening with our house!
We had all the lighting put up the week of the wedding:
above: the living room
below: guest bedroom
above: the dining room
below: the master bedroom
above: our beautiful track lighting in the kitchen...and our track lighting at work below
The heat pump hooked up & running while we were away on the honeymoon, so we got to come home to a cool (yet empty) house. After we got back from the honeymoon, we started painting! the kitchen & two bathrooms had to be primed so I did that Friday. Saturday I painted from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and I (with a little help at the end of the day from my darling husband) finished painting the living room, guest bedroom & the master bedroom (which are all the same color)! I went back tonight to finish up with the primer around the kitchen, master bath, & .5 bath. Once I finished that, I started the trim work in the master bath and I think I'm really going to love the blue we picked for the bathrooms! :)
above: the master bedroom - valspar lyndhurst gallery beige
below: the living room - valspar lyndhurst gallery beige
above: the guest bedroom - valspar lyndhurst gallery beige
below: the master bathroom - valspar surf spray
On the agenda for tomorrow....finish up trimming the bathrooms and start trimming the kitchen. I used to love painting...but since I've had to paint this entire house from scratch, I'm not such a huge fan of painting anymore so I can't wait to get past this stage of the house work.
BIG HOUSE NEWS
I'm so excited that I can say we are having sheet rock hung at our house this week! :) They should be done by the Friday (hopefully earlier, but I'll be pleased with Friday) so that we can start painting! :) I have looked through our studded up house for months now and I can't wait to see each room become a room. I don't have pictures yet, but I'm going to run over to the house tonight to see what they finished today, and I'll try to post a couple of the work in progress! Yay for house progress...
Master Bedroom
Other side of the Master Bathroom
1st closet in the Master Bedroom
2nd Closet in the Master Bedroom
Dining Room from the addition looking into the Living Room
Kitchen...it looks SO different than when we bought the house!
Master Bathroom
Band Together
This weekend was one with little progress house or wedding wise. We were busy with a bbq fundraiser at the fire department where my love works and then yesterday was his birthday and church. Needless to say, we did accomplish a few tasks!
House:
- FFIL finished the plumbing in our house so now we are ready to hang sheet rock. :) yay!
Wedding:
- I finished stringing and glueing on the beads to our serving set (see a seperate post about that here).
- I FINALLY got FI to go to the jewelry store to be sized for his band. We went ahead and purcahsed it Friday while we were there. Needless to say, it was MUCH more expensive than we thought it was going to be, but still half the price of my two bands.
Here is the site with full information about and I didn't get a real shot of the ring, but here is the stock photo from the makers site.
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I do have to say that the ring we seen in the store was no where near this shiny; it's tungston carbide and has a lifetime warranty. I have to admit that I got giddy in the store when he decided which band he wanted :) Today marks 33 days until I marry my love!
This evening I'll be working on tissue paper flowers and deciding exactly how I'm going to do the programs. I have the template created, some blue & purple paper, but I'm not sure how/what I'm going to print them on. Hopefully I'll have more updates tomorrow!
This evening I'll be working on tissue paper flowers and deciding exactly how I'm going to do the programs. I have the template created, some blue & purple paper, but I'm not sure how/what I'm going to print them on. Hopefully I'll have more updates tomorrow!
Insulated
My wonderful FI and brother worked at the house yesterday! :) They stuffed insulation all day and got it all put in. FI's dad has most of the plumbing done, only our .5 bath left to finish. So, I'm sure you can guess was comes next....hanging sheet rock! Woo-hoo! Once the sheet rock goes up we can start with everything else: light fixtures, inside doors, painting...you know all the little stuff. :) Our house may be ready to move into right after the wedding after all!
I'm thankful to God for the small things too!
House Update
I don't have any new wedding related news to share right now but I do have pictures to show of the house and how it's coming along, because it is coming along quiet nicely.
Here is the back of what our house used to look like and of course what it looks like now. It's more finished now than it was when I took this picture (I haven't made it by there to take updated pics in a day or two). We raised the roof (literally :P) to give us more head space in the master bath and in the meantime added a .5 bath on the opposite side of the house and extended our dining room. 
This picture here gives you a better idea of what we did to the back (raised the roof).
Here is what used to be our porch...it will now be a .5 bath on the end of the house and an extension of our dining room in the middle.
And of course I have pictures all of these men working...
House Update
If you're from North Carolina, you know that much of the state received some snow yesterday! I was beyond excited to see it snowing. FI called and asked me to come to Lowe's to pick out our front door for him, his dad, and my brother were going to put in. Since it was snowing pretty hard, I decided to head on home when we left Lowe's because the snow was laying everywhere in Lenoir. It was really a winter wonderland and I smiled and thanked God for the entirety of my trip home.+003.jpg)
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Once I arrived home, it seemed like it took 5 hours to get the door put in. Nevertheless, through the hard work of 3 and the brains of 6, our new door went in! I can't believe I didn't take a picture from the outside after it was complete, but I'll get one and post it later. 
Once I arrived home, it seemed like it took 5 hours to get the door put in. Nevertheless, through the hard work of 3 and the brains of 6, our new door went in! I can't believe I didn't take a picture from the outside after it was complete, but I'll get one and post it later. This is what we've had as our 'front door' the past month or so, a locked screen door.
Needless to say, I was pleased to see a REAL front door go up! We purchased a Schlage door handle and deadbolt lock, the thickest bolt available. :P
UPDATE: I drove by the house and took a picture with the new door :) Don't mind the wood and mess in the lower portion of the photo!
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Missing In Wedding Action
Hi everyone! I am very apologetic that I have been missing around here! We had our church revival all last week and it was late every night when I got in. I woke up last Friday morning with sinus issues and have been down and out with that until my meds really started working yesterday. I have made a pretty good little bit of progress along the lines of wedding planning progress, and we also have TONS of action along the lines of house progress. FI and his dad have really been working on the house the last couple of weeks. We did find an issue in the one room of the house we had planned to remodel after we moved in so we are now remodeling every room/aspect of the house. I'm very excited for everything to be finished so I can show you before and after pictures!
On the wedding front:
~ I finally paid of my wedding bands (first post about them can be found here)! Good pictures to come when I can get a good picture of them.
~ I completed the printing on the back of the majority of our RSVP postcards (I'm waiting on a second batch of 100 to arrive from Vistaprint).
On the wedding front:
~ I finally paid of my wedding bands (first post about them can be found here)! Good pictures to come when I can get a good picture of them.
~ I completed the printing on the back of the majority of our RSVP postcards (I'm waiting on a second batch of 100 to arrive from Vistaprint).
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~ The brown paper that Hobby Lobby had to special order for me came in and I finished cutting all of those earlier this week. I get the rest of the invites assembled.+001.jpg)
~ My sister and I found the coolest decorating idea for the fellowship hall windows! I'm anxious for the tulle I ordered from CODWholesale to arrive so we can experiment with these!!! We plan to use fishing wire to hang 4-6 individual tulle poofs at varying lengths from the tulle covered curtain rods.
~ We also nailed down how we're going to decorate the pews at the ceremony!
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The Sanctuary we're getting married in looks almost IDENTICAL to the one in the above picture. I love the lights in the tulle and will probably go with that look!
On the house front:
Since we're having to fix the bathroom now as well (this was unintended; we planned to wait and build on to the back of the house where the bathroom is when we started a family, but we found a few things and decided it was best to go ahead and tackle this project now as well). I made a quick little layout of the the house for it's before and after layout:
A House Post
Since I showed our first purchase of supplies to start "re-building" our house, I figured I might as well show the second, much larger purchase.
Believe it or not, we purchased more wood Thursday evening so that we could lift the ceilings & floors because they were sagging just a bit. I'm very thankful that my FI and his dad build/remodel houses for a living. It's saving us a fortune in carpentry labor expenses. Friday was their first day working inside the house and they successfully completed all of the work that will be done with raising the ceilings to a nice pretty level. Today they are supposed to be tackling the floors; I'm not sure how much they will actually get completed since we had flash flooding in our area last night.
Believe it or not, we purchased more wood Thursday evening so that we could lift the ceilings & floors because they were sagging just a bit. I'm very thankful that my FI and his dad build/remodel houses for a living. It's saving us a fortune in carpentry labor expenses. Friday was their first day working inside the house and they successfully completed all of the work that will be done with raising the ceilings to a nice pretty level. Today they are supposed to be tackling the floors; I'm not sure how much they will actually get completed since we had flash flooding in our area last night.
Not exactly what I expected $500 worth of wood to look like but FI said it did look like $500 worth of wood. I trust him since he has been doing this since age 16. :)
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