Before and Afters

This has been a long time in coming because we painted the house several weeks ago now, but blogging hasn't been a top priority this summer.  Hopefully, this fall it becomes one again.

We're slowly but surely getting everything unpacked and in its proper place around these parts.  It's starting to feel like home instead of some random house with piles of our junk in it.

The first weekend we owned the place, before the movers showed up, we had a painting party.  Many of our lovely relatives volunteered their services to pretty much paint our house from top to bottom.

Living room before:

And living room after...I love, love, LOVE this color!  Martha Stewart's Winter Day

 Entryway before...purple and green

 Entryway after...Martha Stewart's Heavy Goose

 It's hard to tell from the pictures, but the light gray color really made that window stand out.  There's etching detail around the edges that I didn't even notice before we painted.  The gray really makes it pop.

I was impressed with everyone's efforts painting the hall because they also did upstairs.  That included some pretty fancy footwork on top of a ladder to get above the stairs.  I was really scared someone was going to break his ever-loving neck.  BUT, thankfully, all was well, and it looks great.  

Thanks painters!

The bathroom before...

And after....I'm a bit obsessed with the way this color (Martha Stewart's Zinc) looks in this room.  When I first started getting the paint on the wall, I was so worried about how dark it was.  I was wrong.  It looks amazing with the tiled floor!  LOVE it!

Maddie's room before....brown little boy's room  

Madeline's room after....raspberry little girl's room!  The first time she saw it she said, "Ohhhhh" and reached out to touch the walls.  I think that means she likes it.

We also painted the laundry room and office. I do not have before and after pictures of those rooms, but they look awesome.

We did not paint our bedroom because I have no idea what color to paint it yet, and we can live with yellow for now.  We did not paint the dining room because we don't even have a dining room table yet, so really, what's the rush?  We also did not paint the kitchen because we have future plans to update the cabinets and countertops so we'll wait to do it all at once.

I'm so happy with how it looks so far!