Nearly There

We have continued to paint like crazy. Well, Craig has. I occasionally help out, but mostly I do dishes and other housework while he paints. And it’s paid off because the living room, if I may say so myself, looks fabulous. On Monday we picked up the furniture that the Smiths donated to our cause, and this is now what our living room looks like! It’s not completely done yet—there are still some edges to touch up (and, actually, in this picture Craig hadn’t finished scraping paint off the windows yet, so those actually look better than what you’re seeing), we need to get curtains and hang pictures… But you’ll still get the idea. I’ll include some “before” pictures, also, just so you can be impressed by what a difference a lot of paint can make! (And some crown moulding and some furniture and a rug…)

Before




After




This last one shows our two red walls. We haven’t quite figured out what to put in this beautiful corner yet, but I do love having the accent wall! (Hopefully this also explains our choice of red pillows for the couch.) For the picture (which we took on Valentine’s Day), we just included my flowers because they matched so nicely, and then some of the stuff we bought with gift cards from Christmas—an ice cream maker at Williams Sonoma (thanks, Jan!) and from Nordstrom, socks for Craig and pearls for me (thanks, Grandma!). It’s been a fun week!