Yesterday was an eventful day! And I'm sorry to say I don't have any pictures. Whoops. I had my hands full of everything else so I didn't get snapshots of before/after rooms. Yesterday the new roof went on our house. They did it so quick and they fixed the faulty rafter in our attic. It was a good thing they did the roof yesterday, the forecast here in OKC is RAIN RAIN RAIN for like the next 2 weeks.
So we came home to a new roof yesterday. I stopped in around lunchtime to check on the men and look at some paint samples in the daytime. Our lighting is not the best yet in our house, so we've been guessing at paint colors. I still feel like I'm guessing, but I'm going with my first instinct--which is really quick so I'm hoping I'm not just brushing past the paint choices too fast. I picked the roof shingle color and...well, oh well. It works. We primed the master bedroom last night and oh it took so long. They had a dark chocolate/icky mud color on the wall in the room and it just felt like a hole. So we primed the walls, without getting much on the carpet or ceiling, and now the room is bright! You can still see the brown behind the primer though so I'm worried we'll have to use 2 coats of new paint. I chose a light shade of sage green for the master bed so I'm hoping it still is homey, yet light enough with our blonde-colored furniture to not be a hole. I have to admit, during the first wall of priming I felt pretty hopeless. It took a long time it felt like. It took us about 3 hours. Is that normal?
As long as we can get the master painted then I am good to go. The rest of the house needs it, but I'm submitting to my alarm bells in my body and mind that Blake and I are too stressed for more painting right now. I have one more coat of paint to do in the laundry room and then we're just going to focus on cleaning the house and packing. I may feel differently after the master is painted and be inspired to at least do one more bedroom (there is one that is burnt orange with brown faux finish...eww) or get the kitchen cabinets over with.
I'm just worried we're not going to be packed to move by next Saturday. So I'm trying to figure out if I should extend our move in goal to Halloween. We'll see. We're not working on the house tonight because our rental house is a wreck and if I'm to start packing next week, then it has to be clean and organized!
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