New Pictures!

So my bridal shower was awesome & I had a great time. It was neat to see so many different women from my life gathered in one room!

The house is coming along very nicely now, we have almost finished the downstairs. We have to do a few minior paint touch-ups on the ceilings around the bathroom and some in the living room. Eric is making good progress on the patio, but it is a lot of work.

Here are some before and afters!

The Kitchen:

The Living Room:

and finally, the bathroom!

My next project is painting the upstairs bathrooms & helping Eric with the patio. Awesome things!!

67 Days!

It's been a while since I posted, and I apologize, but I've been a bit busy lately.

The invitations have been mailed out, well most of them, I have a few to address yet. We've gotten three responses so far! Ha ha.

We averted a bridal shower crisis, and now everything is under control.

Things with the house are going swimmingly; we successfully transformed the main floor with paint, including stripping wallpaper in the half-bath. It is my opinion that who ever decides to apply wallpaper to their walls is basically saying, "screw you people who are going to buy our house! This wallpaper is ugly and will be incredibly difficult to remove! MUAHAHHAHA!". Eric is continuing work with the backyard/patio and we are on a list to have new flooring on the main floor installed soon. Forget the fact that we are neglecting the rest of our home, the first floor is going to be awesome.

Bridal shower in less then two weeks - wedding in 67 days. Crazy!

Our Home!

We finally had settlement last Tuesday, and I am a bit slow to post, but we were very busy this weekend!

Our settlement went well; it was very short, but the papers were signed and we are now the proud owners of a home in Langhorne, PA!

On Thursday, Eric and his friend Steve started demo work on the backyard, taking out a few bushes and planning the awesome patio Eric is going to build for us.

On Friday my mom, brother and I went to the house and cleaned the downstairs from top to bottom. Colin also did some awesome demo work on the patio in the backyard.

On Sunday, Eric and I painted the living room, hallway and kitchen. I forgot to take pictures until after we were finished at 9 PM and the lighting was terrible, so I will take pictures next time I go up and post them.

Here is the before of our living room:

Hallway:

Kitchen:

Yay! Many more pictures next weekend!

house!

We got it! Settlement took literally 30 minutes. Everyone was astonished, but I guess everyone had their stuff together. Anyway.. now the fun begins! I will post pictures this weekend! Yay!

Additionally, the wedding is now less then 90 days away, which is just plain crazy. Our wedding rings came in, and they fit. I just tried mine on for like 2 seconds - and Eric had his on for a bit more only because it got stuck on his fat knuckle =)

Also, I have spring fever and want nothing to do with work... HAHA. Track just started and now my life is hectic again. Oh well, eventually I will get everything done!

ugggh!

Our settlement was pushed back... we aren't sure now, but it may be either Friday or Monday or possibly even later. I am hoping for Friday... a three-day weekend sounds nice & then I can still do some housework on Sunday!


Anyway.... house ideas!




inspiring kitchen re-do.

http://joshandjessicabrown.blogspot.com/2010/02/kitchen.html

I love the idea of grey-beige walls in the living room. Any color you put with grey really pops, so it is very versitile. This picture is from Domino.

I just love these white pitchers and scrabble tiles... from decorating addiction.

I also printed out more invitations... the wedding is 95 days away! =) I can't wait!

Getting Closer!

The days are counting down until our wedding.. we are under 100 now! The main thing that needs to be accomplished soon is finishing the invitations. I will finish this week.

Even more exciting is the fact that in less then 5 days we will own a house. wow. We spent mucho $ at Lowe's on Saturday buying painting supplies and a new lock. Hopefully everything goes as planned and we can have the entire house pre-cleaned and prepped for painting by the end of the weekend!! Yay!

Young House Love

So, I am at work. I am supposed to be thinking about work-related things: lesson plans, grading, discipline, blah blah blah.

BUT, All I can think about is decorating the house, set to become ours in 1 week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. That was a lot of exclamation marks on purpose, I am just plain excited. Anyway, I have been gathering inspiration from all sorts of places. Yesterday I watched my favorite show on HGTV, "Property Virgins," a show about first time home buyers, and this one couple toured a house where the entryway was this awesome shade of dark grey with white trim. I have been thinking about painting the living room/hall bathroom area dark grey for a while and that just cemented it for me.

Also, our cabinets are just plain boring. We want to paint them - well, I want to paint them. Here are the directions we will probably follow - from one of my new favorite blogs http://www.younghouselove.com/2008/11/how-to-paint-your-kitchen-cabinets/

Young House Love is just plain awesome. After settlement we will be taking tons of "before" pictures to share!