We're in a lull...

We've become lazy in the realm of house projects here lately. Maybe it is football season, maybe the two weekends in Knoxville for two Tennessee lossess, and maybe just a general sense of "in over our heads, how are we going to get it all done?" Either way we need to get moving!

This weekend we did. Elliott was off Friday and we had three, count em, 3 contractors visit the house. One to check on a radiator that is not working (and still not working), one to fix the flue for our gas furnace and make sure our fireplace can be operational this winter and finally, a woman measuring all of the windows in our house for new blinds. Whew!
It was then time this past weekend to paint our master bedroom... we've been calling it our oasis but it was far from it in reality. Before shots:

The gift hurricane Irene left... we had to strip old painted wallpaper, sand and patch the wall to get it ready to paint, thanks Irene.

We picked a paint color after trips to Lowe's, Home Depot, Sherwin Williams, and Benjamin Moore and finally landed on the paint color "kentucky haze." Yes, I had five paint choices on the wall... prove it, sure thing... (kentucky haze is the bottom one, so if you don't like it, tough cookies, it's on the walls already!)

Ladies and gents, here are the after shots!

We still have trim to paint, furniture and rugs to buy, blinds and drapes to buy and install, crown molding to install... okay I am going to stop the list here because I am depressing myself with all we want to do!
I am also proud to announce that we are the proud new owners of a hand sander. I have been begging for this for months and am glad we have one to work on some of our doors that stick (too much paint over time) and refinish a table that we inherited when we bought the house. I can't wait to get it done!

Love to all!