Our New Home...

We've been busy, so I'll make this a short entry. We moved into our first house about two and half weeks ago! It's been really fun so far, but a lot of work. The first thing I noticed about owning rather than renting is that when you rent and notice something you don't like you either live with it or call maintenance. When you own the first thing you do is calculate how much work and how much it will cost to fix -- a completely different mindset. Needless to say our lives have been full of projects large and small. We started with things like unpacking, then moved to work like buying furniture (read: all day IKEA trips) and shaving doors so the would close. However, our first big project is painting. We are transforming our main level and I get to post my first before and after pictures for the blog. There were giant mirrors and yellow paint in the dining room -- now the yellow is not quite so overwhelming (the entire main floor is yellow) and we don't have to watch ourselves eating! We had to remove and dispose of mirrors, put up new crown molding, and repaint everything. Here are the results:

BEFORE



AFTER